Everyone on “Matlock” had higher watch their step… as a result of an effectivity skilled is taking notes.
TVLine has an unique first take a look at the CBS authorized drama’s midseason premiere — airing Thursday, Feb. 26 at 9 pm — with Sarah Wright Olsen (“Parks and Recreation”) debuting as Gwen, an effectivity skilled analyzing the agency. And with a giant merger within the works and Matty and Olympia nonetheless making an attempt to nail Senior for the Wellbrexa cover-up, she’ll have loads of issues to put in writing about in her report.
Within the photograph above, no less than, it seems to be like Gwen is getting alongside swimmingly with Matty and Sarah. “However do not let her pleasant demeanor idiot you,” showrunner Jennie Snyder Urman tells TVLine. “Gwen heads the workplace of integration and is the ‘effectivity skilled’ in control of managing Jacobson Moore’s merger… which implies slicing all jobs deemed non-essential.”
Wright Olsen is greatest identified for taking part in Jerry’s daughter Millicent Gergich — the spitting picture of mother Gayle, performed by Christie Brinkley — on the NBC sitcom “Parks and Recreation.” Her different TV credit embrace “Spinning Out” and “Marry Me.” (Plus, she’s married to “Matlock” govt producer and “NCIS: Los Angeles” star Eric Christian Olsen.)
Henry Haber additionally joins the forged as Hunter
Together with Wright Olsen, newcomer Henry Haber shall be becoming a member of the “Matlock” forged within the again half of Season 2. He’ll play Hunter, a younger affiliate who’s described as “a complete bro.”
“What is going to it’s like for Olympia and Matty to be round a bro? They have been with characters that basically see them as the top and do issues their approach,” Snyder Urman informed Deadline earlier this month when Haber’s casting was introduced. “However what occurs when you have got someone who spreads slightly bit and shoots a basketball when he desires to have concepts flowing? What’s that like in our girls’ world? And I am going to inform you: It is humorous.”
The additions of Wright Olsen and Haber to the forged come as David Del Rio, who performed younger affiliate Billy Martinez, has been written off the present following allegations of sexual assault in opposition to co-star Leah Lewis, who performs Sarah. Within the fall finale, Del Rio did not seem on-screen as Billy, however Sarah took a cellphone name from Billy and realized that his pregnant girlfriend Claudia had tragically suffered a miscarriage.
Billy’s “exit shall be defined in the midst of the subsequent two episodes, and it’s actually in step with the character and in step with what’s taking place with the agency at massive,” Snyder Urman informed Deadline. “We need to stay true to the character.”
