{"id":324991,"date":"2026-04-26T21:42:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:12:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=324991"},"modified":"2026-04-26T21:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T16:12:19","slug":"matlocks-season-3-time-jump-explained-after-schedule-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/04\/26\/matlocks-season-3-time-jump-explained-after-schedule-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Matlock&#8217;s Season 3 Time Jump Explained After Schedule Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><em>Matlock<\/em> isn\u2019t just getting a schedule change \u2014 but a time jump as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSeason 3 won&#8217;t pick up directly [after the season 2 finale],\u201d creator <strong>Jennie Snyder Urman<\/strong>\u00a0told <em>Deadline<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019ll be six months to a yr, I might say.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Urman also confirmed this in an interview with TVLine, teasing how Matty (<strong>Kathy Bates<\/strong>) and Olympia (<strong>Skye P. Marshall<\/strong>) will likely be working in a brand new firm.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019ll be a little bit time jump: six to nine months, something like that,\u201d she continued. \u201cNot like five years later and all the pieces has modified. But we\u2019re not a direct pickup, like we were this yr.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"link-related article link-related__with-thumb\">\n<figure class=\"article__figure\">\n<div style=\"padding-bottom:56.25%;\" class=\"ratio-based-placeholder\"><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"article__content\">\n<h3 class=\"article__title\">\n<p>    <span class=\"related-badge\">Related: <\/span><span class=\"related-title\">Why Are Many CBS Shows Facing Major Shakeups? Fall Lineup Changes Explained<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\n\t\t\tThe autumn 2026 lineup goes to look a little bit different for CBS after some shows went through surprising changes. CBS announced its schedule on Wednesday, April 15, with viewers noticing some substantial changes. Ghosts, Matlock and NCIS: Sydney received a shakeup by having their premieres moved to 2027 for midseason. They may join the [\u2026]\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Before the season 2 finale, it was confirmed that <em>Matlock<\/em> is returning for a 3rd season \u2014 but will undergo a schedule change after a \u201ccomplete reset\u201d for the show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked for it with the network. We had a chat,\u201d Urman told TV Insider. \u201cI just feel like we had a lot stuff to take into consideration because we actually landed the plane on this, and we actually thought that was necessary because we didn\u2019t need to keep dragging out the identical story, and the characters need to get to someplace real emotionally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Urman confirmed that season 2 would wrap up the Wellbrexa story line, which meant an entire \u201creset\u201d for the series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOnce we took this two-hour finale and really paid plenty of things off, what got here with that was I\u2019m going to wish time after that to essentially construct the architecture in order that we&#8217;ve got it for the subsequent seasons,\u201d she teased. \u201cI\u2019m enthusiastic about it, but I&#8217;m also grateful because we would have liked a little bit little bit of time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Urman addressed possible disappointment from viewers, adding, \u201cSad for audiences, but actually really good for me and the writers because I would like us to plot this latest mystery and make certain it\u2019s airtight.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"news-block\">\n<div class=\"newsletter-form  \">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-narrow.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-narrow\" loading=\"lazy\"><br \/>\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.usmagazine.com\/wp-content\/themes\/us-weekly\/assets\/img\/newsletter-bg-wide.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"newsletter-form__background background-wide\" loading=\"lazy\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"newsletter-signup__success\" aria-live=\"polite\">\n<h3>Thank You!<\/h3>\n<p>You may have successfully subscribed.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>She continued: \u201cWe had plenty of pieces entering into, so we actually needed to create this latest piece of it. I feel lucky that the network\u2019s giving us time to get it right because I don\u2019t want the standard to drop.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CBS previously announced its schedule on April 15 with viewers noticing some substantial changes. Ghosts, Matlock and NCIS: Sydney received a shakeup by having their premieres moved to 2027 for midseason. They may join the brand new show Einstein, which is finally premiering in 2027 as well.<\/p>\n<p>Matlock\u2019s time slot will likely be given to Elsbeth to permit Cupertino to premiere on the identical night. NCIS: Sydney, meanwhile, is moving to midseason as NCIS: Origins \u2014 which received a shorter episode order \u2014 takes over to pair off with NCIS: Recent York.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matlock isn\u2019t just getting a schedule change \u2014 but a time jump as well. \u201cSeason 3 won&#8217;t pick up directly [after the season 2 finale],\u201d creator Jennie Snyder Urman\u00a0told Deadline. \u201cIt\u2019ll be six months to a yr, I might say.\u201d Urman also confirmed this in an interview with TVLine, teasing how Matty (Kathy Bates) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":324992,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[337],"tags":[891,1237,15389,48734,802,726,446],"class_list":["post-324991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-change","tag-explained","tag-jump","tag-matlocks","tag-schedule","tag-season","tag-time"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324991"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324991\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324994,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324991\/revisions\/324994"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}