After NBC canceled Harry’s Law after two seasons in 2012, Kathy Bates raked the network across the coals in heated remarks one year later. Fast-forward to 2025, and Bates still has no regrets about what she said during that 2013 Television Critics Association interview. And she sees Matlock ‘s success as a cherry on top of the cake.

Bates starred as lawyer Harry Korn in Harry’s Law , which followed three down-on-their-luck people who started a law firm in a rundown shoe store. The series raked in around 10 million viewers weekly for NBC, but it failed to perform well with the younger age demos that NBC wanted. The network canceled it in 2012 after two seasons despite its noteworthy weekly viewership.

“I think they treated us like sh*t,” she told TCA reporters about NBC

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