Matlock, starring Oscar-winner Kathy Bates, previewed on CBS in the Sunday 8p ET hour on September 22 with a large 7.73 million audiences (based on the live+Same Day changed Fast National Ratings, according to Nielsen). Comparably, this was the Eye net’s biggest non-post-Super Bowl series best giventhat drama The Code (following NCIS) on April 9, 2019.
Described as a gender-flipping reboot of the initial Matlock with Andy Griffith, Kathy Bates plays Madeline Matlock, who declares to be a widowed, unskilled ex-lawyer raising her grandson and in requirement of cash,