After touchdown the Finest Actress in a Drama Sequence trophy on the 2025 Critics Selection Awards for her efficiency on CBS’ Matlock, Kathy Bates mentioned her win can also be a win for community tv.
“It’s an enormous deal for me,” she advised reporters backstage on the awards present on Friday, per Deadline. “Once we did our pilot, I obtained an e-mail from Amy Reisenbach, who’s the top of the community, and I appeared her up as a result of I didn’t actually know who she was, and I noticed an image of her … subsequent to a headline that mentioned, ‘Broadcast TV Is Not Lifeless.’”
Bates was probably referring to media protection a few memo Reisenbach despatched to staffers after changing into president of CBS Leisure in November 2022. “I can’t wait to work with all of you rather more intently and proceed the legacy that’s CBS,” Reisenbach wrote within the memo, per Selection. “Within the meantime, I need to allow you to in on my mantra. Regardless of what you could have learn or heard, BROADCAST IS NOT DEAD. This season proves it! Our community has 16 of the highest 25 leisure reveals, and they’re killing it on Paramount+, too! As we navigate the longer term, we’re going to be good and impressive. And above all, we’ll hold entertaining hundreds of thousands of individuals around the globe with best-in-class content material. Give up isn’t in my vocabulary.”
On Friday, Bates added, “This actually is an award for [the network] for taking the chance to want to create such an exquisite present. I imply, it’s simply been phenomenal.”
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On Matlock, Bates performs Madeline Kingston, a rich girl posing as a financially-challenged lawyer named Madeline “Matty” Matlock as she returns to her regulation profession to get justice for the opioid-related loss of life of her daughter. Skye P. Marshall, Jason Ritter, Beau Bridges, David Del Rio, Leah Lewis, and Sam Anderson additionally star within the collection, a meta reboot of the Andy Griffith authorized drama of the identical identify.
CBS ordered a second season in October 202 — granting Matlock the primary renewal of a freshman collection of the 2024–2025 broadcast TV season — after the present gave CBS its most-watched non-Tremendous Bowl collection premiere in 5 years, with a mean of seven.73 million viewers.
“This reconceived Matlock was devised by Jennie Snyder Urman with a superb shock plot twist, and we knew we had one thing very particular the second we noticed the primary episode dropped at life by the extremely gifted Kathy Bates,” Reisenbach mentioned in an announcement on the time. “The viewers reception and important popularity of it has been overwhelming. We are able to’t wait to get began on a second season.”
Matlock, Thursdays, 9/8c, CBS