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Kathy Bates is headed back to television for her last acting project!

The 76-year-old actress will be starring in the upcoming Matlock reboot series for CBS and it will mark her first TV series since American Horror Story: Apocolypse (season eight) in 2018.

In a new interview, Kathy said the new show will be her last, after spending the last 54 years in film and television!

Keep reading to find out more…

“This is my last dance,” she told The New York Times.

Kathy was actually ready to retire before Matlock came around, after a movie shoot turned sour for her. She really gave her all for the role, and it went underappreciated, so the next day, she called her agents and told them she wanted to retire.

However, a few weeks later and her agents sent her the script for Matlock and it moved her so much that she decided to pause those plans.

Kathy Bates has been a force to be reckoned with in Hollywood for over five decades, but the Oscar winner has now decided that the curtain must come down on her phenomenal career. Bates is set to lead Matlock on CBS, a reboot of the classic legal TV drama, but the actress has now called the upcoming series my last dance.

Matlock is an 18-episode series based on the 80s show which starred Andy Griffith as the titular attorney. The new series will reimagine the classic show, with Bates playing the role of Matlock, who returns to her old law firm that she found great success at during her younger years. According to Bates, Matlock is the singular reason why she has not already retired from the industry, which then makes it easy to see why she is not planning on looking for any more work once this journey comes to an end.

Kathy Bates is ready for retirement, but not without putting in one last performance on the small screen. She's the star of the upcoming Matlock series reboot at CBS, but once the show ends, fans will never see her in another acting role again.

Per the New York Times, Bates confirmed her plans to retire once the new Matlock ends its run. She explained how she was planning to retire before the role had even been presented after an unnamed movie she was working on "soured" how she felt about the current state of show business. It even got to the point where she told her agents she was retiring. A few weeks after this call, Bates' agents still sent her the script for the Matlock reboot, and it intrigued her enough to take on the project for her final role.

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Kathy Bates is ready to roll the credits on her decades-long acting career.

In an interview published in the New York Times on Sunday, Bates reveals she will retire after CBS’ upcoming legal drama Matlock comes to an end. “This is my last dance,” she said.

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In fact, the Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress says she was ready to retire after an unnamed movie shoot went badly.

After five decades in Hollywood, Oscar- and Emmy-winning actress Kathy Bates says she is ready to yell cut. The esteemed performer will put away her scripts following CBS’ reboot of Matlock, premiering Sept. 22 and later dropping on Paramount+.

“This is my last dance,” she told the New York Times simply in a new interview published Sunday.

In fact, Bates revealed that she was ready to retire earlier, after a film shoot had soured for her (she did not specify the production) late last year. However, in January 2024, her agents sent her the script for the procedural, the premise of which — a reimagining on the classic legal TV drama, featuring a septuagenarian righting wrongs — intrigued the actress as a person who has faced injustice earlier in her career, she said.

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When Kathy Bates read the script for “Matlock” in January she wasn’t exactly interested in the role, she told the New York Times in an interview published Sunday. She was ready to retire, but the script paused those plans — though not for good. Bates revealed that once the show is finished, so is she. “This will be my final dance,” the actress told the outlet.

The CBS series has, perhaps surprisingly, become an outlet for what she has left to release. “Everything I’ve prayed for, worked for, clawed my way up for, I am suddenly able to be asked to use all of it,” she explained. “And it’s exhausting.”

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The Matlock cast of characters includes a captivating group of actors capable of reviving Andy Griffith's 1980s and '90s legal courtroom drama, one of the best procedural TV shows ever. Griffith's series utilized his folksy exterior to mask his sharp legal mind, and Bates' reboot will adopt the same premise. Kathy Bates will star in the series as Madeline "Matty" Matlock, a retired lawyer who returns to practicing law to support her family. Bates has held leading roles in TV series like Netflix's stoner comedy Disjointed and NBC's Harry's Law, but the Matlock reboot is remarkable.

Kathy Bates said she "had one foot out the door," believing she could land something like Matlock at her age in a Conversations Between Stars interview with CBS ahead of the Matlock series premiere. In that way, the septuagenarian identifies with a significant theme of the Matlock reboot: that...

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Decades after the beloved original went off the air, CBS is reviving Matlock with an all-new cast of familiar stars, and there are a ton of exciting updates about the upcoming reboot. Debuting in 1986, the original series followed lawyer Ben Matlock as he used his folksy wisdom to solve cases as they went to trial. Known for Andy Griffith's towering performance and its exciting courtroom scenes, Matlock helped set the stage for many of the procedurals that followed throughout the '90s and 2000s.

Running for a total of nine seasons, Matlock was not only a hit on its own but spawned a slew of successful spinoffs, like Diagnosis Murder and Father Dowling Mysteries. After the original series went...

Kathy Bates' Matlock reboot has an exciting premise, but before its premiere, the show has already replaced an original cast member. CBS announced early in 2023 that Andy Griffith's Matlock series would come to CBS in reboot form, with Bates as the leading lawyer in a gender-swapped role. The original Matlock series ran on NBC from 1986 to 1992 and then on ABC until 1995. CBS will give the series a new face, with the reboot exploring the same wolf-in-sheep-clothing premise that the first Matlock tackled, with Ben Matlock's folksy exterior masking his fierce legal skills.

The Matlock reboot will put Bates where Griffith once stood. It will explore how Bates' character, Madeline "Matty" Matlock, uses being an older woman in modern society to her advantage. The series will subvert the harsh reality of older adults feeling invisible in society, with the Kathy Bates Matlock trailer showing Madeline Matlock using her invisibility to scheme legal wins.

Matlock is arriving later this month on CBS, and the network has released a new preview teasing Kathy Bates in a reboot of Andy Griffith's 1986-95 series.

Starring Bates, Skye P. Marshall, Jason Ritter, David Del Rio, and Leah Lewis, the series will feature “Matty” as she returns to the workforce at a prestigious law firm. The show was developed by Jennie Snyder Urman.

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Kathy Bates stars as the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock in the new drama series, Matlock, inspired by the classic television series of the same name. Madeline 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 and expose corruption from within. Matlock premiers in the 2023-2024 season on the CBS Television Network and will be available to stream live and on demand on Paramount+. Pictured (L-r): Kathy Bates as Madeline Matlock. Photo: Brooke Palmer/CBS ©2023 CBS Broadcasting, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Matlock stars Academy Award winner Kathy Bates as the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline “Matty” Matlock. Set against the backdrop of modern-day Los Angeles, the show features a rich ensemble cast After a successful career, Matty returns to the workforce at a prestigious law firm. She uses her unassuming demeanor...

A new Matlock series is coming this fall to CBS. The new trailer for the reboot teases Kathy Bates taking over the name with her reimagined version of the iconic TV character.

Previously, Andy Griffith starred in the original verison of Matlock, spending nearly a decade in the role. CBS will reimagine the show with a new incarnation featuring Bates as Madeline "Matty" Matlock. CBS teases how this version is "not the Matlock you're expecting," though she's no less brilliant than her predecessor, similarly using her wits to win cases in the courtroom. The trailer can be watched below.

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Get ready to watch Academy Award-winner Kathy Bates as she picks up the mantle left behind by the legendary Andy Griffith when CBS debuts its loosely based iteration of “Matlock” this fall.

Airing Thursday nights at 9:00 p.m. Et/Pt, the all-new adaptation follows Madeline (“Matty”) Matlock (Bates), a brilliant septuagenarian who achieved success in her younger years and decides to rejoin the workforce at a prestigious law firm where she uses her unassuming demeanor and wily tactics to win cases.

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As broadcast networks continue to look to the past for new offerings, CBS is rolling out an updated version of the 1986-1995 legal drama Matlock. Taking over for the late Andy Griffith in the title role is Academy Award winner Kathy Bates. The new Matlock, originally set for a 2023 bow, will finally premiere this fall, but the hype is already building. Bates herself gave TV Insider an exclusive preview of the reboot as part of our 2024 Fall Preview, revealing that her Madeline “Matty” Matlock (no relation to Griffiths’ character) has some tricks up her sleeve. “Matlock has an agenda that not everyone knows about,” Bates told TV Insider. The new Matlock trailer also implies she’s keeping a big secret. Here’s the need-to-know info about the new series. What is CBS’ Matlock reboot about? Bates stars as the brilliant septuagenarian Madeline Matlock in the new drama series, inspired by...

The original Matlock was a long-running network TV series in the 1980s and 1990s. It starred TV legend Andy Griffith as attorney Ben Matlock.

Debuting in 1986 on NBC, Matlock remained on that network until 1992, when it moved to ABC, where it remained until it wrapped up in 1995.

Matlock was a popular legal procedural created by Dean Hargrove, who was also behind the original Perry Mason.

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Ben Matlock was a defense attorney who often proved his clients innocent, usually in dramatic courtroom moments.

Since early 2023, a reboot of Matlock has been in the works, not on the original show’s networks but on CBS.

The other big change is that the Matlock character in this version is a woman, played by Kathy Bates.

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Eric Christian Olsen was a movie star before he arrived on NCIS: Los Angeles. He had roles in Pearl Harbor and Not Another Teen Movie. His breakout was playing Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd. Olsen played Jim Carrey’s character from the original movie in the prequel.

In 1955, on the stage of Broadway’s Alvin Theater, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first bonded as they co-starred in the stage production of “No Times for Sergeants,” cementing a friendship that continued when they were both asked to reprise their stage roles in the 1958 Mervyn LeRoy film. Years later, when Knotts happened to learn about a TV project starring Griffith as a small town sheriff, he called up his old friend and asked “Don’t you think Sheriff Andy Taylor ought to have a deputy?” Griffith loved the idea, and television history was made.

Thanks to Knotts’ impeccable comic skills, Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife became one of television’s most beloved characters, an peacekeeper with loads of insecurities which he tries to cover up with a show of bravado that is both hilarious and endearing. His brilliant comic performance earned Knotts five consecutive Emmy Awards, which was unmatched at the time.

In 1955, on the stage of Broadway’s Alvin Theater, Andy Griffith and Don Knotts first bonded as they co-starred in the stage production of “No Times for Sergeants,” cementing a friendship that continued when they were both asked to reprise their stage roles in the 1958 Mervyn LeRoy film. Years later, when Knotts happened to learn about a TV project starring Griffith as a small town sheriff, he called up his old friend and asked “Don’t you think Sheriff Andy Taylor ought to have a deputy?” Griffith loved the idea, and television history was made.

Thanks to Knotts’ impeccable comic skills, Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife became one of television’s most beloved characters, an peacekeeper with loads of insecurities which he tries to cover up with a show of bravado that is both hilarious and endearing. His brilliant comic performance earned Knotts five consecutive Emmy Awards, which was unmatched at the time.

The fall premiere dates for CBS' new and returning TV series have been set. The network announced its full 2024-25 schedule in May.

In the fall, viewers can expect to see the returns of 48 Hours, 60 Minutes, Blue Bloods (resuming its final season), Elsbeth, The Equalizer, FBI, FBI: International, FBI: Most Wanted, Fire Country, Ghosts, NCIS, The Neighborhood, Survivor, Swat, and Tracker. The new fall series are Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (Young Sheldon spin-off), Matlock (reboot of the 1986-95 legal drama), NCIS: Origins (NCIS prequel), Poppa's House, and The Summit.

The Amazing Race, NCIS: Sydney, and Raid the Cage are among the shows that will return later in the season. New series like Hollywood Squares (reboot of the classic game show), Sheriff Country (Fire Country spin-off), and Watson (based on Sherlock Holmes characters) are expected to launch in 2025.Read More…...

The classic TV show “Matlock” is coming back to screens next year – but with a twist. Kathy Bates will take on the lead role as a lady lawyer named Madeline “Matty” Matlock in CBS’s reimagined version of the legal drama.

Matty is joining a prestigious law firm later in life, looking to prove that experience counts just as much as youth. As a woman in her 70s, she’ll show viewers that older people still have a lot to offer. “I wanted to write a character who challenges ageism,” says producer Jennie Snyder Urman.

Bates, who is 76 herself, thinks Matty’s role is long overdue. “You never see women my age as the lead on TV,” she points out. Her character will have depth, taking on complex cases and corrupt bosses week after week.

Helping Matty in the courtroom is Olympia, played by Skye P. Marshall. Olympia is a senior attorney,...

Matlock reboot to premiere Fall 2024, Kathy Bates leads the cast. The start date was announced for Sept. 22. The show will air on Thursday nights, followed by Elsbeth. The reimagining features new characters, and storylines.

The forthcoming Matlock reboot on CBS has received a significant update. It was first announced in 2023 that Kathy Bates would lead the cast in a reboot of Matlock, the beloved mystery series from 1986 to 1995 that starred Andy Griffith. It was already known that the series would be a part of CBS's Fall 2024 lineup, but now, the show has been given an official start date of Sunday, September 22.

However, this is a special premiere date as the show will be slotted into the Thursday night lineup, beginning with a rerun of its premiere on Thursday, October 10, at 9 Pm Et.

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CBS has announced the fall premiere dates for its five new and 15 returning series for the 2024-25 primetime schedule. The official “CBS Premiere Week” kicks off with a full week of original episodes beginning Monday, Oct. 14, with the 22nd season premiere of NCIS and two hours of the new drama NCIS: Origins starring Austin Stowell as a young Leroy Jethro Gibbs and narrated by Mark Harmon.

The fall lineup includes two special “Sneak Peeks” before CBS Premiere Week: The new Thursday night drama series Matlock, starring Kathy Bates, on Sunday, Sept. 22 and the new Wednesday night action-adventure reality competition series The Summit, set in the New Zealand Alps and hosted by Manu Bennett, on Sunday, Sept. 29.

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In addition, the hit reality series Survivor debuts its 47th season with a two-hour episode on Wednesday, Sept. 18, and Blue Bloods returns in CBS Premiere Week for...

What started out as a fun accessory now represents so much more for the title character on Elsbeth.

While talking with reporters Saturday at the Television Critics Tour, Carrie Preston explained why her quirky character Elsbeth Tascioni carries not one, but three bags at any one time on her CBS drama.

For the uninitiated, Elsbeth’s penchant for portable storage began on The Good Wife, which was the idea of then Executive Producer Brooke Kennedy.

“She needs to always be carrying a bunch of things. We got very specific about what those bags were,” Preston explained. “She won’t carry a briefcase. She doesn’t think of herself in that way. They became a fun accessory. She has bags in her brain, she has Rolodexes in her brain. She’s picking out little things that she put there 20 years ago, and she’s like ‘I can use that here.'...

The reboot of Matlock, the classic 1986 legal drama, has been given an official release date by Kathy Bates herself.

The iconic mystery series starring Andy Griffith as Ben Matlock is getting a reimagining set to air on CBS this fall. Collider reports that Bates has confirmed the series will begin on October 17th, 2024. The series will officially premiere from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. But a sneak peek will be released on September 22nd from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

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Veteran actor Beau Bridges gives an update on the upcoming Matlock reboot starring Kathy Bates in the lead role.

The original series followed Griffith as Matlock. The original series ran for nine seasons before ending in 1995. However, the new series will not be a continuation of that story and will instead follow Bates as Madeline "Matty" Matlock, an elderly...