CBS ’ ongoing Matlock reboot is set in a world where the original Matlock TV show existed: Kathy Bates ’ character introduces ...

There are a lot of pleasures to be found on "Matlock," the sly CBS update of the old Andy Griffith legal drama that serves as ...

The courtroom mystery series Matlock represented for Andy Griffith his second successful TV win, both in ratings and critical acclaim. Once the actor got settled into his role as the tetchy and ...

For her portrayal of an older lawyer who returns to the workforce on CBS's hit new show that shares a name but little else with the Andy Griffith classic, the 76-year-old Oscar winner is in serious ...

Andy Griffith, who died on Tuesday at age 86, never strayed far from his native North Carolina. He grew up there and returned there in his later years, but he’s most closely identified with a ...

When he took on the role of criminal defense lawyer Ben Matlock in 1986, Griffith wanted to explore a darker side. “Andy harbored enormous ambitions for Matlock,” Daniel de Visé wrote in his ...

This iconic courtroom drama captured audiences in large part because of its stellar ensemble cast, including its star —Andy Griffith. Griffith, who played the role of Benjamin Matlock ...

Television icon Andy Griffith died Tuesday morning at the age of 86. Former UNC President Bill Friday, a close friend of the actor, confirmed the news to WITN. Griffith passed away at his home in ...

Actor Andy Griffith, who played a widowed sheriff in the Andy Griffith show and a cagey Southern lawyer in Matlock, died Tuesday at his home. He was 86. These shows were only a small part of a ...

And Andy really took to that, and it's one of the things that differentiates it from what we're accustomed to seeing on sitcoms." Griffith scaled back his TV appearances after Matlock went off the ...