Matlock is back on CBS, but it isn’t your grandmother’s television show starring Andy Griffith; this is an all-new compelling series starring the iconic Kathy Bates. Kathy Bates has been in so many of everyone’s favorite television shows and movies that anything she is in has the potential to be a hit,

Olympia and the team take on a lawsuit involving a developmentally delayed teenager whose family claims he's been wrongly accused of murder.

This article contains spoilers for the CBS reboot of Matlock. CBS chief marketing officer Mike Benson has spent the last 18 months obsessing over Matlock — or, to be more precise, how to sell 2024 audiences on the Eye’s new reboot of the Andy Griffith-led legal mystery.

SPOILER ALERT! This story contains details about the premiere episode of Matlock on CBS. Although Matlock has returned to the screen in name, that’s about where the similarities end with the new reboot.