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Kathy Bates Says Her Critics Choice Award For ‘Matlock’ Also Represents A Win For Broadcast TV: “It’s A Big Deal”
Kathy Bates won a Critics Choice Award for her leading role in CBS' Matlock
“When we did our pilot, I got an email from Amy Reisenbach, who is the head of the network, and I looked up her up because I didn’t really know who she was, and I saw a picture of her…next to a headline that said, ‘Broadcast TV Is Not Dead.’ “ In Matlock, Bates plays Madeline “Matty” Matlock, a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved success in her younger years and decides to rejoin the work force at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases all while investigating a deeply personal secret of her own. So for me, it took different things from my life to try to create this tremendous amount of guilt that Maddie has so that we can keep her driving through this preposterous event where she decides to infiltrate this law firm for justice.”
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