Especially if the lead character isn't actually named Matlock, but rather, Kingston. Wtf. Call it Kingston. What part of the show is actually connected to Matlock?
I couldn't agree more. Kathy Bates has a certain cache, with a certain audience. Just make a new lawyer show around her. Why is Hollywood so terrified of new territory?
@@robhart4601100%. But calling this Matlock bugs me. Castle was not called 'Murder He Wrote,' though the premise was the same. If Bates was supposed to be Matlock's daughter, or if they called it something else, I'd be behind it all the way. The name just seems to cheapen it, like it couldn't stand on it's own. Meh. I'll still watch it. It sounds like it's worth the time.
You got about 4 sentences in before I started to cringe. Way too many characters. Soap opera relationship setups. Obvious political messaging right off the bat. DEI casting. Will the women and POC triumph over the "evil racist system" and the men that make it up or get in their way? The twist was good and almost got me but...Pass.
Wow is this everything I hate about modern TV. A reboot that just uses the name to get in audiences and has nothing to do with the original? check. A classic male lead replaced by a woman? Check. White guy villains? Check. All cases pertaining to modern politics (defund corrupt police who are out to get diverse people, and corrupt rich white people and their opioids)? Check. Mystery box plot? check. And weirdest of all Kathy Bates...she doesn't look like herself. You execs might greenlight, but if I want Matlock, I'll go watch the original.
"Remember that successful entertainment property that had a male lead? Well what if we just swap out the male lead for a female and still call it the same entertainment property?" OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN
I just started that new Rockford Files show. Well, new to me. It's from fifty years ago. I chose to watch it since I now don't watch anything made in the last ten years.
@@jimjam51075For a sec, I thought you were serious. There was talk a number of years ago, about the time the new Hawaii 5-0 took off, of rebooting “Rockford Files”. Then, I guess, someone at the network noticed that the original just a vehicle for James Garner, an already established TV star. And what w/ there not being another James Garner kicking around Hollywood, the idea was shelved.
Chato, this sounds like a pre-existing lawyer show idea that the network slapped the name “Matlock” on to so that the marketing dept wouldn’t have to work too hard.
Matlock only existed as a vehicle for Andy Griffith. There is literally no reason to ever bring it back. It's as bad an idea as bringing back Fresh Prince of Belair.
Are they kidding? What's next, The Rockford Files starring Lizzo? Maverick starting Daisy Ridley? Perry Mason starring Snoop Dog? HEY, McCLOUD WAS A ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!!
No. The 50+ demographic isn't going to buy into the show. The biggest mistake is naming the show Matlock and gender swapping the character. Audiences are tired of lame reboots.
@@CallMeChatoyou got there first. However, the car is racist, being called General Lee and having the confederate flag painted on its roof. They’d have to rename the car and have the roof painted with a rainbow.
@@colinstock325 They'd probably hire Alec Baldwin, too. (John Schneider made a bunch of RUclips videos debunking Baldwin's "the gun just went off by itself" story.)
Columbo starring Kathleen Turner, Rockford Files with Patricia Heaton as Jaime Rockford (shame Doris Roberts has passed, we could have had her as Rocky), Courtney Cox as the new Kolchak the Night Stalker... have I got what it takes to be a tv studio exec?
This made me go yuck. I even like Kathy Bates, it's just I consider Matlock sacrosanct. I have fond tv memories of TBS network and Matlock. Andy was America's dad. You don't mess with that memory.
They couldn’t have made this a sequel to the original series and Kathy Bates is just the current custodian to the Matlock Law Firm? I can’t wait until they reboot the Golden Girls with a bunch trans women and they navigate their later years when nature and body modifications rear their ugly heads. Tagline: “The laughs and adult diapers run wild on Golden Girls, er um Guys?”
Gender swap for Bates is good, but seems like the show will be about social justice and racism, a weekly which white guy did something bad show. Not for me.
I like Kathy Bates but why didn't they just cast her in her own show instead of riding on the coattails of an IP that is decades old, no one remembers, and unnecessarily gender swaps? Wat.
Because she had her own lawyer show about 10 years ago (Harry’s Law)based in Cincinnati, and it was a brilliant show, written by David Kelley, but it TANKED in the ratings. It lasted two seasons.
I watch your videos even when the subject matter is of no importance to me. Network TV is as you described it and I long ago became 100% apathic towards it. The last good network program I enjoyed was Elementary - and that was the only show I watched. And I remember McCloud. Dennis Weaver and company did all right. Thank you for your take on this new show. The premise sounds ridiculous - but hey, it's network TV. 😲
This show makes No sense. A law firm would have veted a new associate, gotten her address, past history, Bar association number, past legal history, etc...
@@CallMeChato Mr Chato, i am old. I watched Elvis and the Beatles on Ed Sullivan live. Besides, my wife still watches the original Matlock, Murder She Wrote, Twilight Zone, etc.... .
Doesn't this portray MATLOCK as a likely absent mother, who's daughter became a drug addict and I assume died of an overdose? If you raise a happy well adjusted daughter then she should have had to worry about the kid being 'murdered' by a corrupt? pharmaceutical company? Is the twist going to be the Matlock turns out to be a cold bitch, instead of the folksy lawyer form the original show?
To make this work on a trivial level, it needs to turn out that she is Matlock's (Andy Griffith) daughter. I looked up their ages and it does work. She can then continue the series working under her maiden name. This would allow for a few callbacks to the original series as time goes by, and the plot ideas start to dry up.
What kind of vetting did that law firm have... didn't even check her name for licensed attorney in NY? Any case she worked on would be reversed, and she is a criminal for inpersenatating a lawyer in court, plus possible stolen identity.
Don't feel bad... The Kids in the Hall once had a sketch where "Golden Girls" was a favorite of The Devil (played by Mark McKinney)! It was in one of the Bobby sketches by Bruce McCulloch with him playing the rebellious future rock 'n roller, Bobby.
I'm not keen on dredging up golden moldies, much less a swap meet, but I'm sure Bates will do a fine job. They could've changed the name to something like Lickmat and let Bates earn her own instead of kicking Andy's corpse for viewers.
@SmallSpoonBrigade the same character originally played by a msn now played by a woman , is the definition of a gender swap . Perhaps your thinking gender swap only counts if it's male to female, thsts also a gender swap
Bridges will most likely be the villain and the hook for a potential second season, but that won’t be revealed until episode seven or eight. Which will be the final three episodes of the season. Episodes 2 through 6 will be a crime of the week thing with the main mystery being put on the side. But they will sprinkle clues and hints about it, to pad out that story line.
I wish I could sit at the table of these pitch/development meetings so I could immediately say "that idea's gonna tank, give that wasted money to me!" Eventually I'd be rich enough to buy my own studio and make some GOOD television again!
When I was a kid in the 70's I loved going through the TV Guide to see what horror and sci fi shows/movies were coming up. MASSIVE nostalgia factor indeed!
I watched the pilot and the twist was barely just enough to keep me interested to watch the next episode. I prefer "High Potential" over this show. It uses a character with a quirky mind that sees things nobody else can to good effect, and Kaitlin Olson is great in anything she does (The Mick was so under appreciated).
Debut in 1986, bloody hell,I always thought it was from the 1960's and brought back in the 80's,can't get over that .was sure I watched it earlier in life (English time) .
I was thinking of just this over the weekend, glad to see you do did this. I watched the first 10 minutes and got out after the initial "Matlock, like the TV show" quip". I read about the twist and got even angrier. Even if this show is good and would be in my wheelhouse, I refuse to watch it. I do not want to reward the producers and network abusing another beloved IP. I could have accepted Bates as Ben's daughter or a relative. But this is the ultimate example of skinning an IP and using its carcass to get a few extra views because of nostalgia. I've probably watched every episode of Matlock at least 4 times over and I want this show to die a slow, painful death. I wish that would mean the producers would learn a lesson but they won't. They will just move on to the next old IP they can exploit for their own story they can't sell on their own.
Modern Hollywood often fails to grasp that some TV shows were vehicles designed to utilize the talents of a specific star to the best light. Any reboot is bound to come out a distant second best because the built-in audience that you are trying to attract is already lost to you because they know they are getting an adulterated fix. Since it's just one of a number of new shows, the more current audience is no more likely to be drawn in than they are to other new shows and you have no advantage. For example, Andy Griffith IS Matlock. James Garner is Jim Rockford ... and Brett Maverick. Edward Woodward IS the Equalizer. Harry Anderson IS Judge Harold Stone. Tom Selleck IS Thomas Magnum. Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell ARE Sam Beckett and Albert Calavici. Tim Allen IS Tim Taylor. And so on.
Thanks for this. I've been seeing adds for this since football season started every Saturday and Sunday, but didn't wan't to take the time to watch it myself. Max redid Perry Mason a few years ago. They only race swapped Paul Drake and implied Della was gay.
The trailer seemed like a Mid court room TV show that blends in with all the others that we used to get all the time. I can see why you green lit it. It's perfect background noise for seniors.
Saw the pilot and it wasn't bad. Nice twist at the end and Kathy Bates did a great job. However, don't see that this will last beyond the first season. Matlock was carried by Andy Griffiths and there were 3 US networks and 1 Canadian network that provided TV. With 5 million programs streaming at any one time, I don't know about this.
TY for the informative and entertaining review. I’m 60 yrs so I enjoyed the vintage cultural references. I don’t watch network television or any television for that matter so I very much agree that the networks needs to expand its audience base to internet platforms. Don’t know if I will watch this new Matlock but I might binge watch it in the future if made available. Glad I found your channel in my RUclips recommendations, I’m subscribing for more. 👍❤️
McCLOUD!!! Thank you Chato. I am glad to hear that it is not an instant dumpster fire but I will wait until you give me a retrospective on the entirety of the first season at least before I even consider watching any sort of reboot/retool/reimagining of a show I actually enjoyed. I have enough on my plate I am not interesting in wasting time on a new series only to have it implode after three episodes. Peaceful Skies
Former television NEWS producer here… *yes, I know it’s a completely different beast than network programming. However, it’s TV. So let’s go with it… Anyhoo, I agree with you 100%, Chato!
The twist at the end is the one thing that’s going to keep me watching… at least for a few episodes. The writing was horrid, but the actors tried really hard to make it work. We’ll see if they can transcend the pilot at all over the next few weeks
My cousin, Dean Hargrove actually created this show back in the day. I'm going to have to call him about this one. First I've heard of this. However, last time I heard from Dean, he was working on a TV series about Joan of Ark. He said that Hollywood was interested in making it with an all woman cast and crew for the most part. So yeah, Hollywood has gone crazy with all sorts of agenda crap.
I grew up on Matlock back in the 70’s - it was good father-son fodder. Haven’t watched the new version, but I like Cathy Bates, and think this is about the best possible casting for a gender swapping retool like this. I hope it works out.
The gender swap is annoying, but... her name isn't even really Matlock? That's the part I don't understand. Why call it 'Matlock'? Seems like a cheap gimmick to get people to watch, as if the show and cast weren't strong enough to survive without tacking on a previously-successful name onto it.
I watched Perry Mason when my parents watched the show but the first role I saw Raymond Burr in was the Americanized version of the first Godzilla film.
You're right the "twist" is pretty much limiting the show. It lures viewers into the mystery but it hurts it in the long run. Unless the show is not intended to last long that is.
I always stood by the logic that if a book/comic/manga is adapted to tv/movie it always should be as faithful to the source material as humanly possible. But if said source material already has a adaptation, then the newer one should be allowed to take some liberties in order to produce something new. Not so much that the end product is unrecognizable, but some to have a fresh approach.
I watched it. Liked it (especially Kathy Bates performance). Watched it again. Still kinda like it. Gender swapping aside, I am intrigued with the idea of a senior woman who is "invisible" and using it to her advantage. I don't remember a show that does this, and it feels original.
What would have been interesting is for her to be in the universe of the old Matlock series, as one of the following: Ben's ex-wife; Ben's sister; one of Ben's daughters (he had three). It could have been "Lou Grant"-ed, i.e., take a character and keep the same general disposition, but in a different surrounding (no Ted to annoy him made Lou a bit mellower when he went back to newspaper work). She's not going to always have to "find the real killer," just keep digging in like civil cases and force defendants to have to settle, paying big bucks to her clients.
Paul, I just want to say I just can't get enough of the Green Light videos. Especially when the logic of Former Network Executive runs counter to the conventional wisdom of the average TV watcher. I think that's because I want to hear a logical rationale, and if it runs counter to my initial emotional reaction, then I probably learned something new.
So I don't "look forward" to the green light series, but I would be lying if I didn't watch each one and genuinely get excited about learning something. It's a character flaw I suspect. Who wants to learn? Yuck. More please. 😁
Mr. Chato, I have a question for the Former Network Executive: Do the network higher ups have so little confidence in this show's formula and cast that they didn't think this show could stand on its own? Why did they have to tack it on to the coattails of Matlock? Do they really think these days that a new show just has no hope of gathering an audience if they don't slap a label with "name recognition" onto it? It wasn't all that long ago that after the long successful CBS run of Muder, She Wrote, that ABC said, "we need to do something like that, too" and they created their own show about a murder solving mystery writer. But, instead of calling it "Murder, He Wrote" - they made their own NEW thing and called it "Castle". By tacking the name "Matlock" onto this show it will FOREVER live in Matlock's shadow. It will forever be compared to it's predecessor. Kathy Bates performance will always be compared to Andy Griffith's. And, because of the rose colored nostalgia glasses fans of the original have when remembering watching the original Matlock, it will almost NEVER LIVE UP to that nostalgia. To allude to another Kathy Bates roll, this new Matlock will be hobbled out of the gate by its apparently RANDOM (in name only) association with the original Matlock - which the network could have avoided by simply calling the show "Kingston" or something. Rather then "helped" (the way the network execs who _insisted_ on hitching this show's cart to the Matlock horse seem to think would happen). The show certainly seems capable of standing on its own and becoming its own thing. It's got a decent cast. It's using the tried and true "old person" with two "young sidekicks" formula that Matlock and Diagnosis Murder used. We'll have to see how its writing goes after a few episodes. My own fear is that most of what the show will end up being (if Hollywood trends keep going the way they're going) is that rather than Kathy's older, wiser, cagier, "down home" character mentoring the two "citified" young lawyers with her "southern charm" and common sense wisdom - it will feature a LOT of the younger, hipper, woke-er characters woke-splaining the woke whys and wherefores to the old fuddy-duddy lady to get her to see how racist and sexist everything is.
Ultimately, I don't care. I was around for Matlock, but too young to care. I'm beyond caring about this show. I wish it well. Crews are working, and that's good. But I won't spare a second for it.
Frankly i don't think the general audience has enough e.otional attachment to the original matlock to care about the casting. The only way people of my age know about matlock is because grandpa simpson and his fellow seniors all loved him
I remember the original Matlock. I wasn't really a fan back then and I didn't think I would care about a modern reboot. However, after hearing your overview of the pilot, I care even less.
Back in the day, I enjoyed shows like Matlock and Diagnosis Murder and even Barnaby Jones but it's 2024 and I'm watching shows like Dark Matter and The Penguin.
"He wasn't cheap but.... his suits were." (You see....it is comments like that one that keeps me coming BACK to this channel.) It IS true that the old, 'Seersucker," suit was re-name colloquially as the, "Matlock Suit," in the late 1980's/early 1990's.
From a real life practical stand point, I could see where the series was simply going to be Matlock, and the twist ending was created and tacked on at the last minute at the 're-tool'. Also: Bridges out... let's see Dreyfuss in???
Murder me, she wrote.
I'd watch that.
agreed
That would have made more sense.
Jessica Fletcher was totally the killer in every episode! 😂
@@estoguy I watched two episodes, I think. I kept seeing her as the bride of Frankenstein.
Nothing says 'TV is dying' more than CBS trying to reboot Matlock for 'modern audiences.'
This is the biggest modern audience Hail Mary I've seen so far.
I would have preferred a Young Matlock as a law student in the 1960s with Kathy Bates as his mentor at Harvard.
If it wasn't called Matlock, I'd be all in.
The title bothers me, being a big fan of the actual Matlock series.
Especially if the lead character isn't actually named Matlock, but rather, Kingston. Wtf. Call it Kingston. What part of the show is actually connected to Matlock?
@@SarahGreen523 because she and her dead daughter used to watch Matlock together. That's the "connective tissue". I really hate Hollywood
I couldn't agree more. Kathy Bates has a certain cache, with a certain audience. Just make a new lawyer show around her. Why is Hollywood so terrified of new territory?
@@SarahGreen523 Exactly. Call it Mrs. Kingston Mysteries or something and it would have a better chance.
She should be offended the network felt they needed to call it that to get people to watch.
The Six Million Dollar Man, starring Whoopie Goldberg.
The Bionic Woman starring Ezra Miller!
@@franohmsford7548 🤣👍!!!
The Six Million white men... She didn't cared about because they weren't black
already did that with fat old lady Equalizer
@@franohmsford7548Dagnabit, I'd successfully forgotten he existed and now I have to start all over again.
I can't wait for the reboot Andy Griffith Show, starring Queen Latifah.
Queen Latifah is out, Lizzo is in now
She already trashed The Equalizer.
@@53kenner Yeah, but the point was to make the swap stupidly intrusive.
Ok, to be fair. I'd watch that.
Give Queefah a chance. I'm sure she would do well as Mayberry's new sheriff. 🤭
Wow. So diverse. What a GIRLBOSS. Hard pass.
Surprising they didn’t make her black too
Just wait for the Trudeau episode.
Queen Latifah was busy destroying some other franchise.
Probably all the elderly black actresses out there were already busy.
Maybe Kathy identifies as black.
No the real shock is they hired Kathy bates. Almost all of these modern remakes cast some young, generic no name person.
Good job on creating a synopsis of this but I'll go for the classic 80's version instead.
You know they'll never do a "Murder He Wrote".
They did have a great Murder He Wrote already called Castle.
@@robhart4601100%. But calling this Matlock bugs me. Castle was not called 'Murder He Wrote,' though the premise was the same.
If Bates was supposed to be Matlock's daughter, or if they called it something else, I'd be behind it all the way. The name just seems to cheapen it, like it couldn't stand on it's own.
Meh. I'll still watch it. It sounds like it's worth the time.
Murder Ze Wrote.
Murder, they/them tweeted.
The secret twist ending to Murder She Wrote is that Jessica Fletcher murdered them all.
You got about 4 sentences in before I started to cringe. Way too many characters. Soap opera relationship setups. Obvious political messaging right off the bat. DEI casting. Will the women and POC triumph over the "evil racist system" and the men that make it up or get in their way? The twist was good and almost got me but...Pass.
Wow is this everything I hate about modern TV. A reboot that just uses the name to get in audiences and has nothing to do with the original? check. A classic male lead replaced by a woman? Check. White guy villains? Check. All cases pertaining to modern politics (defund corrupt police who are out to get diverse people, and corrupt rich white people and their opioids)? Check. Mystery box plot? check. And weirdest of all Kathy Bates...she doesn't look like herself. You execs might greenlight, but if I want Matlock, I'll go watch the original.
"Remember that successful entertainment property that had a male lead? Well what if we just swap out the male lead for a female and still call it the same entertainment property?" OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN
@@GR1MKA1 it could have been a gender, race AND species swap!
I just started that new Rockford Files show.
Well, new to me. It's from fifty years ago. I chose to watch it since I now don't watch anything made in the last ten years.
@@jimjam51075For a sec, I thought you were serious. There was talk a number of years ago, about the time the new Hawaii 5-0 took off, of rebooting “Rockford Files”. Then, I guess, someone at the network noticed that the original just a vehicle for James Garner, an already established TV star. And what w/ there not being another James Garner kicking around Hollywood, the idea was shelved.
Chato, this sounds like a pre-existing lawyer show idea that the network slapped the name “Matlock” on to so that the marketing dept wouldn’t have to work too hard.
That's basically what I was thinking and said.
I am guessing it was the old white guy...
Ya, Beau Bridges did it, for sure.
Matlock only existed as a vehicle for Andy Griffith. There is literally no reason to ever bring it back. It's as bad an idea as bringing back Fresh Prince of Belair.
Didn't they do that but it was a drama? Vague memories of it being discussed on line.
Fresh Prince starring Rachel Ziegler.
Yeah Bates is a good actress, but I really do not see that working out the same
Fresh Prince?
Stop giving them ideas
I think that show finished
Are they kidding? What's next, The Rockford Files starring Lizzo? Maverick starting Daisy Ridley? Perry Mason starring Snoop Dog? HEY, McCLOUD WAS A ONE OF MY FAVORITES!!!
WHY ARE YOU GIVING THEM IDEAS??!!!
The Golden Girls with RuPaul
@@DeftCrackerGamingPlaying all four of them, of course.
LOL "What's next, The Rockford Files starring Lizzo?" i died!
I loved McCloud! There you go!
No. The 50+ demographic isn't going to buy into the show. The biggest mistake is naming the show Matlock and gender swapping the character. Audiences are tired of lame reboots.
Just from your description, I hate it!
That's like rebooting Monk with some random Asian lady
No, that's safe as he has OCD, can't type a diverse cast on permanent OCD
Monk’s not white, so he’s probably safe lol.
As long as she has the stereotypical accent, I'd watch that...
Or the same as telling people your name is Monk because you liked the tv show named Monk
@@prime-of-two3753
The whole mediteranean is white, including north africa. Just suntanned.
Looking forward to The Queens of Hazard.
I believe that would be Duchesses of Hazard.
@@CallMeChatoyou got there first. However, the car is racist, being called General Lee and having the confederate flag painted on its roof. They’d have to rename the car and have the roof painted with a rainbow.
If they were smart, they'd go with General Custer.
@@colinstock325 They'd probably hire Alec Baldwin, too. (John Schneider made a bunch of RUclips videos debunking Baldwin's "the gun just went off by itself" story.)
With that title, they could still go with a largely male cast...
Columbo starring Kathleen Turner, Rockford Files with Patricia Heaton as Jaime Rockford (shame Doris Roberts has passed, we could have had her as Rocky), Courtney Cox as the new Kolchak the Night Stalker... have I got what it takes to be a tv studio exec?
I do like Patty though I went to grade school with her older sister!
I’d actually watch the Cox Nightstalker.
There was a short-lived Mrs. Columbo series made back in the 1970s. Surprise, surprise, it did not succeed.
@@itrytobeanonymoustoo5289 I remember that vaguely, wasn’t it Kate Mulgrew who was later on Star Trek?
Patricia Heaton is a conservative, so they wouldn't hire her.
A ten episode first season on network TV. I remember when network TV dramas were over twenty five episodes per season.
This made me go yuck. I even like Kathy Bates, it's just I consider Matlock sacrosanct.
I have fond tv memories of TBS network and Matlock. Andy was America's dad. You don't mess with that memory.
In Finland watched most of the Matlocks during the summer breaks with my grandparents (may they rest in peace) as a kid, fond memories.
They couldn’t have made this a sequel to the original series and Kathy Bates is just the current custodian to the Matlock Law Firm?
I can’t wait until they reboot the Golden Girls with a bunch trans women and they navigate their later years when nature and body modifications rear their ugly heads. Tagline: “The laughs and adult diapers run wild on Golden Girls, er um Guys?”
*_"Men make the best women."_*
- P.C.
🤭🤭🤭
No do not give them ideas
As a dude that loved the Golden Girls, I almost want to see that just because I know that's the one show that would hurt Them more than me.
This video actually piqued my interest enough to make me watch Matlock. Have to say I like it!
Gender swap for Bates is good, but seems like the show will be about social justice and racism, a weekly which white guy did something bad show. Not for me.
It will take .5 seconds to figure out who is guilty each week.
@@jimjam51075 Yes just look for the White guy in every episode.
Can't wait for Bonanza with the Wayons brothers.
If I want to watch Matlock, I will watch it on MeTV.
Why not just make a new "sleuth" show starring Kathy Bates? Why does she have to be Matlock? Ridiculous.
I like Kathy Bates but why didn't they just cast her in her own show instead of riding on the coattails of an IP that is decades old, no one remembers, and unnecessarily gender swaps? Wat.
I remember her having her own lawyer show a decade or so ago. I think it ran for a season or so before it disappeared.
because she's a sellout that eats children.
Because she had her own lawyer show about 10 years ago (Harry’s Law)based in Cincinnati, and it was a brilliant show, written by David Kelley, but it TANKED in the ratings. It lasted two seasons.
@@WhiskyCardinalWes Harry's law, it got killed after 2 seasons because the core audience wasn't a big spender demo who wouldn't buy merchandise
@@WhiskyCardinalWesThat lawyer show was quite good too actually.
They didn't need to swap Matlock's gender. They could have just did another Murder She Wrote series (just as popular).
I loved Murder, She Wrote. Lol
Can't wait for the Rocky remake starting Janet Jackson taking down the boxing patriarchy
Grandpa Simpson is going to write an angry letter.
Old Man Shouts At Internet!!
Write😂an angry😂letter😂. Quality🤣🤣!
I watch your videos even when the subject matter is of no importance to me. Network TV is as you described it and I long ago became 100% apathic towards it. The last good network program I enjoyed was Elementary - and that was the only show I watched.
And I remember McCloud. Dennis Weaver and company did all right.
Thank you for your take on this new show. The premise sounds ridiculous - but hey, it's network TV. 😲
Exactly.
I remember a time when CBS had original shows with original ideas like Person of Interest
It was at its best with shows like "The Beverly Hillbillies," "Petticoat Junction," "Green Acres," and "Gilligan's Island." Those were the days.
This show makes No sense. A law firm would have veted a new associate, gotten her address, past history, Bar association number, past legal history, etc...
You’ve never seen a network show in its hay day.
@@CallMeChato Mr Chato, i am old. I watched Elvis and the Beatles on Ed Sullivan live. Besides, my wife still watches the original Matlock, Murder She Wrote, Twilight Zone, etc.... .
They didn’t on SUITS....hired that insufferable little percyboy was
That's no fun! Must be wacky AND wokey.
Doesn't this portray MATLOCK as a likely absent mother, who's daughter became a drug addict and I assume died of an overdose? If you raise a happy well adjusted daughter then she should have had to worry about the kid being 'murdered' by a corrupt? pharmaceutical company?
Is the twist going to be the Matlock turns out to be a cold bitch, instead of the folksy lawyer form the original show?
To make this work on a trivial level, it needs to turn out that she is Matlock's (Andy Griffith) daughter. I looked up their ages and it does work. She can then continue the series working under her maiden name. This would allow for a few callbacks to the original series as time goes by, and the plot ideas start to dry up.
True except this show is ‘real’ and Matlock was fictional.
@@CallMeChato Next you'll claim Barney Fife is Santa Clause!!!
Next 'new' series from the network genuises: Lady Barnaby Jones, Lady Cannon and the The Simon & Simon Sisters. 😄
Seeing a show titled Simone & Simone would not even surprise me anymore.
Don't forget The Riflewoman.
Mrs. Columbo's Niece's Uncle's Wife.
No one can replace Buddy Ebsen
Don’t forget Maxine instead of Manix!
Love your videos! Have you done a review on the Pilot for Moonlighting? One of my favs! Thank you!
What kind of vetting did that law firm have... didn't even check her name for licensed attorney in NY? Any case she worked on would be reversed, and she is a criminal for inpersenatating a lawyer in court, plus possible stolen identity.
Maybe go with a Murder , She wrote reboot
Only if it stars a man.
I don't mind that at all.
Oh no...
I'm embarrassed to admit, but two of my 'regular' shows when I was in High School were MATLOCK & GOLDEN GIRLS... As a young teenage male. lol
Don't feel bad...
The Kids in the Hall once had a sketch where "Golden Girls" was a favorite of The Devil (played by Mark McKinney)! It was in one of the Bobby sketches by Bruce McCulloch with him playing the rebellious future rock 'n roller, Bobby.
likely Murphy brown and designing women too... should have watched Wise guy and Tour of duty...smh
Rue Mclanahnan was a Fox!
It's obvious how much work you put in!
I'm not keen on dredging up golden moldies, much less a swap meet, but I'm sure Bates will do a fine job. They could've changed the name to something like Lickmat and let Bates earn her own instead of kicking Andy's corpse for viewers.
Omg gender swap mattock
Thing is her name isn't even Matlock , it's just a nickname because she likes the old show. So stupid.
I'm not sure this counts as a gender swap when it's not the same character.
@SmallSpoonBrigade it's the same character, she is the title character, a reimagined matlock
@SmallSpoonBrigade the same character originally played by a msn now played by a woman , is the definition of a gender swap .
Perhaps your thinking gender swap only counts if it's male to female, thsts also a gender swap
Bridges will most likely be the villain and the hook for a potential second season, but that won’t be revealed until episode seven or eight. Which will be the final three episodes of the season. Episodes 2 through 6 will be a crime of the week thing with the main mystery being put on the side. But they will sprinkle clues and hints about it, to pad out that story line.
I wish I could sit at the table of these pitch/development meetings so I could immediately say "that idea's gonna tank, give that wasted money to me!" Eventually I'd be rich enough to buy my own studio and make some GOOD television again!
You will be happy to learn that CBS has the Pilot episode up on RUclips. Next up (I assume)? Murder, He Wrote.
When I was a kid in the 70's I loved going through the TV Guide to see what horror and sci fi shows/movies were coming up. MASSIVE nostalgia factor indeed!
Ah I remember Matlock! It and the reruns of The Next Gen was what got me up for school in the morning when I was in 2nd grade.
I watched the pilot and the twist was barely just enough to keep me interested to watch the next episode. I prefer "High Potential" over this show. It uses a character with a quirky mind that sees things nobody else can to good effect, and Kaitlin Olson is great in anything she does (The Mick was so under appreciated).
Debut in 1986, bloody hell,I always thought it was from the 1960's and brought back in the 80's,can't get over that .was sure I watched it earlier in life (English time) .
I was thinking of just this over the weekend, glad to see you do did this. I watched the first 10 minutes and got out after the initial "Matlock, like the TV show" quip". I read about the twist and got even angrier. Even if this show is good and would be in my wheelhouse, I refuse to watch it. I do not want to reward the producers and network abusing another beloved IP. I could have accepted Bates as Ben's daughter or a relative. But this is the ultimate example of skinning an IP and using its carcass to get a few extra views because of nostalgia. I've probably watched every episode of Matlock at least 4 times over and I want this show to die a slow, painful death. I wish that would mean the producers would learn a lesson but they won't. They will just move on to the next old IP they can exploit for their own story they can't sell on their own.
It's CBS so a hard no.
How can one network have all the worst ideas for so long without it being intentional?
Matlock was 40 years ago. How can this audience still be alive?
Why is it called Matlock? Will there ever be television again?
Honestly, i would love you to do this on a lot more shows! Its a unique take, that no one else is doing on YT.
Modern Hollywood often fails to grasp that some TV shows were vehicles designed to utilize the talents of a specific star to the best light. Any reboot is bound to come out a distant second best because the built-in audience that you are trying to attract is already lost to you because they know they are getting an adulterated fix. Since it's just one of a number of new shows, the more current audience is no more likely to be drawn in than they are to other new shows and you have no advantage. For example, Andy Griffith IS Matlock. James Garner is Jim Rockford ... and Brett Maverick. Edward Woodward IS the Equalizer. Harry Anderson IS Judge Harold Stone. Tom Selleck IS Thomas Magnum. Scott Bakula and Dean Stockwell ARE Sam Beckett and Albert Calavici. Tim Allen IS Tim Taylor. And so on.
McCloud! I think I might have been a baby in the room where a few episodes were watched? 😂
Dennis Weaver maybe? Now I'll go look!
Love your channel!
Paul's gna build the Maaatlock Expressway
A lot of credit to you for giving this show a fair shake. And I will leave it at that ;)
Please tell me that this is a joke. Pleeease!
Of all the good things in this video, the shout out to McCloud was the best.
Thanks for this. I've been seeing adds for this since football season started every Saturday and Sunday, but didn't wan't to take the time to watch it myself. Max redid Perry Mason a few years ago. They only race swapped Paul Drake and implied Della was gay.
The trailer seemed like a Mid court room TV show that blends in with all the others that we used to get all the time. I can see why you green lit it. It's perfect background noise for seniors.
Pretty much. Ratings were huge.
Saw the pilot and it wasn't bad. Nice twist at the end and Kathy Bates did a great job. However, don't see that this will last beyond the first season. Matlock was carried by Andy Griffiths and there were 3 US networks and 1 Canadian network that provided TV. With 5 million programs streaming at any one time, I don't know about this.
She could have claimed to be related to Jackie Chiles, Cosmo Kramer's attorney. Let the fun ensue.
Oooh I like the city-scape picture you used! Very pretty! 😊
TY for the informative and entertaining review. I’m 60 yrs so I enjoyed the vintage cultural references. I don’t watch network television or any television for that matter so I very much agree that the networks needs to expand its audience base to internet platforms. Don’t know if I will watch this new Matlock but I might binge watch it in the future if made available. Glad I found your channel in my RUclips recommendations, I’m subscribing for more. 👍❤️
Welcome aboard. Thanks.
"Maaaaaattttllooooocccckkkk" - Grandpa Simpson.
McCLOUD!!!
Thank you Chato.
I am glad to hear that it is not an instant dumpster fire but I will wait until you give me a retrospective on the entirety of the first season at least before I even consider watching any sort of reboot/retool/reimagining of a show I actually enjoyed. I have enough on my plate I am not interesting in wasting time on a new series only to have it implode after three episodes.
Peaceful Skies
Bates has an amazing batting average and is from my town. Im just head scratching why she chose this project.
Money. And a job.
Catlock could keep Bridges drugged in the basement with a pair of broken ankles calling him a Dirty Birdie…
Former television NEWS producer here… *yes, I know it’s a completely different beast than network programming. However, it’s TV. So let’s go with it… Anyhoo, I agree with you 100%, Chato!
Former network people have to stick together. Thanks, man.
Grandpa Simpson is already yelling at the clouds: "Bring back OUR Maaaaaatloooock!!!!!" 🤣🤣🤣
The twist at the end is the one thing that’s going to keep me watching… at least for a few episodes. The writing was horrid, but the actors tried really hard to make it work. We’ll see if they can transcend the pilot at all over the next few weeks
My cousin, Dean Hargrove actually created this show back in the day. I'm going to have to call him about this one. First I've heard of this. However, last time I heard from Dean, he was working on a TV series about Joan of Ark. He said that Hollywood was interested in making it with an all woman cast and crew for the most part. So yeah, Hollywood has gone crazy with all sorts of agenda crap.
I grew up on Matlock back in the 70’s - it was good father-son fodder. Haven’t watched the new version, but I like Cathy Bates, and think this is about the best possible casting for a gender swapping retool like this. I hope it works out.
Typo in title, "Green Light or *Not*" Thanks Chato!
The only TV I watch is the MeTV channel, which airs old shows like MASH, The Waltons, Gunsmoke, Leave it to Beaver, and yes... Matlock. The real one.
He's Canadian, they always ov er pronounce the "O", lol
The gender swap is annoying, but... her name isn't even really Matlock? That's the part I don't understand. Why call it 'Matlock'? Seems like a cheap gimmick to get people to watch, as if the show and cast weren't strong enough to survive without tacking on a previously-successful name onto it.
What's next? A dramatic re-boot of Happy Days?? ( a la Bel-Air)
I watched Perry Mason when my parents watched the show but the first role I saw Raymond Burr in was the Americanized version of the first Godzilla film.
I reject on the pure principle of it's an unnecessary reboot of a dead ip.
And it’s another pointless gender swap.
You're right the "twist" is pretty much limiting the show. It lures viewers into the mystery but it hurts it in the long run. Unless the show is not intended to last long that is.
DEI anyone?
I always stood by the logic that if a book/comic/manga is adapted to tv/movie it always should be as faithful to the source material as humanly possible. But if said source material already has a adaptation, then the newer one should be allowed to take some liberties in order to produce something new. Not so much that the end product is unrecognizable, but some to have a fresh approach.
I watched it. Liked it (especially Kathy Bates performance). Watched it again. Still kinda like it. Gender swapping aside, I am intrigued with the idea of a senior woman who is "invisible" and using it to her advantage. I don't remember a show that does this, and it feels original.
Leslie Jones staring as Colombo will be interesting m, but seriously I don't feel fussed about this swap.
What would have been interesting is for her to be in the universe of the old Matlock series, as one of the following: Ben's ex-wife; Ben's sister; one of Ben's daughters (he had three). It could have been "Lou Grant"-ed, i.e., take a character and keep the same general disposition, but in a different surrounding (no Ted to annoy him made Lou a bit mellower when he went back to newspaper work). She's not going to always have to "find the real killer," just keep digging in like civil cases and force defendants to have to settle, paying big bucks to her clients.
I hear another series... single female lawyer..oh wait that's a Futurama parody.
Paul, I just want to say I just can't get enough of the Green Light videos. Especially when the logic of Former Network Executive runs counter to the conventional wisdom of the average TV watcher. I think that's because I want to hear a logical rationale, and if it runs counter to my initial emotional reaction, then I probably learned something new.
I think you convinced me that I should at least give it a watch.
So I don't "look forward" to the green light series, but I would be lying if I didn't watch each one and genuinely get excited about learning something. It's a character flaw I suspect. Who wants to learn? Yuck. More please. 😁
Mr. Chato, I have a question for the Former Network Executive: Do the network higher ups have so little confidence in this show's formula and cast that they didn't think this show could stand on its own? Why did they have to tack it on to the coattails of Matlock? Do they really think these days that a new show just has no hope of gathering an audience if they don't slap a label with "name recognition" onto it?
It wasn't all that long ago that after the long successful CBS run of Muder, She Wrote, that ABC said, "we need to do something like that, too" and they created their own show about a murder solving mystery writer. But, instead of calling it "Murder, He Wrote" - they made their own NEW thing and called it "Castle".
By tacking the name "Matlock" onto this show it will FOREVER live in Matlock's shadow. It will forever be compared to it's predecessor. Kathy Bates performance will always be compared to Andy Griffith's. And, because of the rose colored nostalgia glasses fans of the original have when remembering watching the original Matlock, it will almost NEVER LIVE UP to that nostalgia.
To allude to another Kathy Bates roll, this new Matlock will be hobbled out of the gate by its apparently RANDOM (in name only) association with the original Matlock - which the network could have avoided by simply calling the show "Kingston" or something. Rather then "helped" (the way the network execs who _insisted_ on hitching this show's cart to the Matlock horse seem to think would happen).
The show certainly seems capable of standing on its own and becoming its own thing. It's got a decent cast. It's using the tried and true "old person" with two "young sidekicks" formula that Matlock and Diagnosis Murder used. We'll have to see how its writing goes after a few episodes. My own fear is that most of what the show will end up being (if Hollywood trends keep going the way they're going) is that rather than Kathy's older, wiser, cagier, "down home" character mentoring the two "citified" young lawyers with her "southern charm" and common sense wisdom - it will feature a LOT of the younger, hipper, woke-er characters woke-splaining the woke whys and wherefores to the old fuddy-duddy lady to get her to see how racist and sexist everything is.
Ultimately, I don't care. I was around for Matlock, but too young to care. I'm beyond caring about this show. I wish it well. Crews are working, and that's good. But I won't spare a second for it.
Frankly i don't think the general audience has enough e.otional attachment to the original matlock to care about the casting. The only way people of my age know about matlock is because grandpa simpson and his fellow seniors all loved him
I remember the original Matlock. I wasn't really a fan back then and I didn't think I would care about a modern reboot. However, after hearing your overview of the pilot, I care even less.
No Expressway for this iteration of Matlock
They just called it Matlock so she could say "Like the old TV Show" throwaway line.
Back in the day, I enjoyed shows like Matlock and Diagnosis Murder and even Barnaby Jones but it's 2024 and I'm watching shows like Dark Matter and The Penguin.
Nobody beats 'Miss Marple' in this 'gendre'.
She might be asking herself, why do some people try . . . When the old re-runs are so very good ?
"He wasn't cheap but.... his suits were." (You see....it is comments like that one that keeps me coming BACK to this channel.) It IS true that the old, 'Seersucker," suit was re-name colloquially as the, "Matlock Suit," in the late 1980's/early 1990's.
From a real life practical stand point, I could see where the series was simply going to be Matlock, and the twist ending was created and tacked on at the last minute at the 're-tool'. Also: Bridges out... let's see Dreyfuss in???