TV Insider chatted with the producers and solid of Matlock at PaleyFest 2025 earlier this week. And whereas the primary focus was on the previous couple of episodes of Season 1, we additionally quizzed the present’s inventive workforce about what viewers can anticipate when the hit CBS sequence returns for its sophomore season.
We’ve been advised that the identification of the individual at Jacobson Moore who saved quiet about data that may have prevented the medicine that killed Matty’s (Kathy Bates) daughter from being accessible to her will be revealed. So the place does that depart Matty and her co-workers in Season 2?
“I truly simply spent the day within the writers’ room final week as they put together for Season 2,” Kat Coiro, director and government producer, teased to TV Insider. “I can say that there’s nonetheless a lot that you just guys are going to have to determine. In a means, the present has a gradual drip. It’s not simply large plot every week. It’s psychologically complicated. It’ll go on for years.”
Melanie Lynskey (Two and a Half Males), Jason Ritter‘s (Julian) spouse, has already spoken out about wanting to look on Matlock. And with what’s to come back in Season 2, there is perhaps room! “There are going to be a lot of recent characters,” Coiro reveals. “There are a variety of wonderful actors who’ve expressed curiosity in coming onto the second season, which is at all times actually thrilling. One which’s public is Jason’s spouse, Melanie Lynskey.” Talking of Ritter, who made headlines over the mustache he’s grown for Lanterns, Coiro quips, “Jason’s mustache can be a personality within the second season.”
The brand new characters Coiro refers to can be serving to inform the tales which are going to gasoline Matlock‘s sophomore season storylines.
What can government producer Eric Christian Olsen say about Season 2? “I can say that Jennie’s a genius,” the actor-turned-producer raves. “She has completely navigated giving sufficient on the finish of this season to fulfill the viewers and left sufficient there to propel us to Season 2 — which is unbelievable.”
Coiro, who began out her present enterprise profession as an actress in New York, shared with us that she’ll be making an look in Matlock‘s Season 1 finale. Would possibly we see Olsen, greatest recognized for his position as Marty Deeks on NCIS: Los Angeles, pop up on display as a visitor star or in some type of cameo?
“I attempt to be actually good about not performing in stuff that we’re producing,” he responds, “[but] there are moments, particularly when watching Kathy, that I deeply yearn to be in a scene together with her.”
Matlock isn’t precisely a reboot and it’s not fairly a revival both on condition that Matty’s actual title is Madeline Kingston — not Matlock. However the title and unique opening theme have been an important hook to get viewers to pattern the present. Does Olsen see worth in bringing again different sequence in comparable fashions?
“Sure, and we’re presently engaged on them,” he shares. “There are such a lot of sequence that maintain a particular place in my coronary heart like Matlock did.”
Olsen says that mental properties shouldn’t be revisited with out there being a plan. “What’s the rationale to convey it again?” he rhetorically asks. “There are specific exhibits that on this second in time have a chance.”
What exhibits did Olsen develop up with? “NYPD Blue,” he says. “I [also] watched Matlock at my grandparents’.”
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