During a recent interview with The Late Show, series star Kathy Bates admitted she was terrified to star in Matlock

While the CBS program shares a title with an old Andy Griffith series, this version with Kathy Bates isn’t the same “Matlock.”

Matlock” is the potato chips of new television series. You get a taste and, before you know it, half the bag is gone.

CBS aired the pilot of its “Matlock” revival, penned by Jennie Snyder Urman of “Jane the Virgin,” weeks before the rest of the season begins its rollout this week. That’s given audiences time to absorb a twist that’s more like a premise.

Don't call it a reboot, because, as many viewers have discovered, the new CBS drama Matlock starring Oscar winner Kathy Bates is everything but. By now, it's an open secret that Jane the Virgin creator Jennie Snyder Urman has done it again.