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Paramount+ is ready with an entertainment-packed January next year. The upcoming month will see the premiere of some of the best Paramount+ original movies including Star Trek: Section 31 and the streaming release of the medical mystery drama series Watson. Just like every month, Paramount+ is ready to overload you with great content. So, we’re here to tell you about the 5 best movies and TV shows coming to Paramount+ in January 2025.

Murder Company (January 1) Credit – Maverick Films

Murder Company is a war action drama film directed by Shane Dax Taylor from a screenplay by Jesse Mittelstadt. The 2024 film is set in the midst of the D-Day invasion and it follows a group of US soldiers who are tasked with smuggling a member of the French resistance to kill a high value Nazi target. Murder Company stars Kelsey Grammer,...

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Matlock is a mystery legal comedy-drama series created by Jennie Snyder Urman. Based on the 1980s iconic series of the same name created by Dean Hargrove, the CBS series follows the story of Madeline “Matty” Matlock, a brilliant lawyer who decides to rejoin the workforce in her 70s. She begins working in a prestigious law firm alongside a few highly competitive lawyers but soon we discover that Madeline is hiding some secrets that her colleagues don’t know. Matlock stars the always-brilliant Kathy Bates in the titular role with Jason Ritter, Skye P. Marshall, Leah Lewis, David Del Rio, Nicole de Boer, and Eme Ikwuakor starring in supporting roles. So, if you loved the interesting storyline, thrilling courtroom scenes, and compelling characters in the Matlock reboot series here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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The Kathy Bates-led reboot of "Matlock" may not hit TV screens for a while longer, but in the meantime, fans of the much-loved legal drama can still catch old episodes of the original run, well, pretty much everywhere. For cable-watchers, the show airs reruns in syndication, while home media junkies can get a DVD box set and those who prefer to stream can catch all nine seasons on Prime Video or PlutoTV.

"Matlock" aired for nine years, moving from NBC to ABC partway through its run and switching up its cast list throughout. Though several actors played more than one character throughout the series' run, only a handful appeared in more than 30 episodes of the series, most of them as Ben Matlock's legal associates. Of the main cast, Andy Griffith, Clarence Gilyard Jr., David Froman, and Richard Newton have all since passed away. Several remaining cast members continue...

The upcoming Matlock reboot series now has an official trailer. The original Matlock ran for 9 seasons, originally airing on NBC from 1986 to 1992 before swapping to ABC until the end of its run in 1995. The series starred Andy Griffith as attorney Ben Matlock, who uses his folksy exterior to hide his sharp legal mind and put people at ease.

Today, CBS announced that they were picking up their Matlock reboot pilot starring Kathy Bates to series, releasing a trailer promoting the show.

The trailer introduces how gender-swapping the lead role allows Bates' Madeline Matlock to take advantage of societal expectations of women. However, they also drop a surprising revelation that, rather than being related to a character from the original Matlock, the new version of the character takes place in the real world, where the original Matlock was just a fictional TV show that aired back in the 1980s.

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CBS has given the greenlight to Matlock, a reboot of the classic legal drama that originally starred Andy Griffith. The new version of the show will star Kathy Bates as a gender-swapped incarnation of the attorney, taking on the lead role of Madeline Matlock. As Griffith's Ben Matlock had done in the original show, the reboot will similarly see Madeline using her unmatched brilliance to get the upper hand in her cases. After getting its pilot order in February, it's now been announced (per TVLine) that CBS has given the new Matlock an official series order. A first look image has also been revealed of Bates as Madeline Matlock, shown above.

The new Matlock is described as a "reimagining" of the original series, meaning that Ben Matlock and other characters from the first show won't be referenced in the new version. Along with Bates, other stars set for the...

Before “ER,” “Chicago Hope” and “The Good Doctor,” there was a great little medical drama called “St. Elsewhere.” Today, it’s not unusual to have topics like rape, abortion, domestic abuse, breast cancer discussed. But 40 years ago, such issues were taboo. Much as “Hill St. Blues” revolutionized police dramas in the early 1980s, “St. Elsewhere” pushed boundaries and opened discussions about issues that affected viewers everywhere.

“St. Elsewhere” refers to hospitals who take in the patients no other hospital wants to deal with; the fictitious St. Eligius is such an institution in Boston, a teaching hospital with more budget issues than personnel. But within the crumbling walls is a staff of doctors and nurses who struggle to provide the best care possible for the string of often difficult to diagnose, difficult to understand and difficult to tolerate patients who come through the doors, while balancing their personal lives and own...

1979: Ryan's Hope's Delia threated Johnny.

1980: Y&R's Leslie wanted to remember a secret from her past.

1991: As the World Turns' Ellen found out her husband had died.

1996: All My Children's Julia was visited by her Fairy Godmother."All true histories contain instruction; though, in some, the treasure may be hard to find, and when found, so trivial in quantity that the dry, shrivelled kernel scarcely compensates for the trouble of cracking the nut."

― Anne Brontë in "Agnes Grey"

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1950: On radio soap opera The Guiding Light, Ted White (James Monk) told his wife, Meta (Jone Allison), he didn't think she...

DVD Playhouse: January 2011

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Allen Gardner

Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (20th Century Fox) Sequel to the seminal 1980s film catches up with a weathered, but still determined Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, who seems to savor every syllable of Allan Loeb and Stephen Schiff’s screenplay) just out of jail and back on the comeback trail. In attempting to repair his relationship with his estranged daughter (Carey Mulligan), Gekko forges a reluctant alliance with her fiancé (Shia Labeouf), himself an ambitious young turk who finds himself seduced by Gekko’s silver tongue and promise of riches. Lifeless film is further evidence of director Oliver Stone’s decline. Once America’s most exciting filmmaker, Stone hasn’t delivered a film with any teeth since 1995’s Nixon. Labeouf and Mulligan generate no sparks on-screen, and the story feels forced from the protracted opening to the final, Disney-esque denouement. Only a brief cameo by Charlie Sheen,...