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If it keeps its current time slot, Matlock will air Thursday nights at 9 p.m. ET/PT on CBS.

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Kathy Bates as Madeline “Matty” Matlock, aka Madeline Kingston

Kathy Bates

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"Matty really now enjoys being useful," Bates told Parade on a visit to the Matlock set. "That’s part of ageism, too, which is a whole other level that we are addressing here, is that she gets in that way with the discriminatory deal that they have against ageism and others. She feels useful in a way that she hasn’t in a long time. She’s been very depressed in the last ten years since her daughter passed away. Now this has rejuvenated her. So, there’s that level that’s going on that’s totally unexpected."

What remains to be seen is if Bates will continue to use the Matty Matlock identity when she returns for Season 2 or if she will assume her true identity of Madeline Kingston.

Sky P. Marshall

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"There was this line in one of the episodes where Madeline Matlock says, 'We’re not quite friends, but we’re not just colleagues,'" Marshall told Parade. "I really loved that line because that’s exactly where we are right now. But you will start to see once the castle wall that Olympia has upstarts to come down, which only happens with trust, that that becomes yet another love story outside of Olympia and Julian, the love story that you will see between Olympia and Madeline Matlock."

Jason Ritter

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"For me the challenge was, as a lawyer, you have to have a certain amount of gravity and seriousness," Ritter told Parade. "In my life growing up, my general energy when dealing with people is the equivalent of when you see a dog in the park, see a bigger dog and they turn and they show their bellies. There’d be people who would make a decision about me coming up like, 'Who do you think you are?' And I had to be like, 'I’m not a threat, I’m not in this fight with you. You win whatever fight. You’re bigger than me, I’m not a part of it.' So, there was an element doing this character who has to really stand his ground a lot of times where I was very nervous about that feeling."

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David Del Rio

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Del Rio plays Billy, a charismatic younger associate, who befriends Matty.

Leah Lewis

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As with Season 1, the cases for Season 2 will dramatize and reflect what is going on in Matty's life.
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“What I believe about secrets in drama is that you juice them for as long as they can hold, and then once they come out there’s so much more drama that comes,” Urman said. “We have to deal with the ramifications and who knew what and who didn’t say what and all of that becomes really important in the second season.

“I look at plot as this double helix. It’s the genetic code, and it’s got to go back and forth and back and forth, and they have to all link up to create something new. So, that’s what I’m focused on for next year, how the pieces that we reveal at the end of the episode come back and create something new, but still have the same DNA.”

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