Reba McEntire is set to return to comedy TV as her new sitcom Happy’s Place got the green light and dropped its first trailer on Wednesday.
The actress, 69 — who recently revealed she she was not initially attracted to her boyfriend Rex Linn when they first met — got her latest series ordered by NBC on May 7.
In her original sitcom, Reba went by the name of ‘Reba Hart’ – but now, she is playing a character called Bobbie.
Per the show’s official description, ‘[Bobbie] inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had.’
The multi-camera show will be executive produced by the multi-hyphenate alongside her old Reba crew Kevin Abbott, Michael Hanel, Mindy Schultheis, and Julie Abbott.
Happy’s Place is set to premieres sometime this Fall on NBC, taking the Fridays slot at 8/7c.
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Reba McEntire is set to return to comedy TV as her latest series, Happy’s Place, got the green light
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In the new show, we see the actress reuniting with her old Reba co-star Melissa Peterman
In the trailer, we see the actress reuniting with her old Reba co-star Melissa Peterman.
‘This. This is why I have been smiling all the time. I am thrilled to share the news that I get another chance to work with my friends!’ the 52-year-old Young Sheldon star gushed on Instagram on back in March when the series was announced.
‘Buckle up @reba we are going to have some fun!’
The three-time Grammy winner and Peterman famously portrayed Reba Hart and Barbara Jean Hart in the divorce sitcom, which aired for five seasons on The WB and an additional season on The CW spanning 2001-2007 (now streaming on Hulu).
‘We’ve really been trying hard to do a reboot of the Reba show,’ Reba lamented on The Bobby Bones Show back in 2022.
‘I really want to work with the people that I got to work with during that six and a half years. It was fun, the cast the crew everybody we got to work with and play with, they were wonderful people. We wanted to get back together like a reunion and have fun, so hopefully that will happen one day.’
And last year, McEntire and Melissa co-starred in her Lifetime movie – Reba McEntire’s The Hammer – which was inspired by the life of the last traveling circuit judge Kim Wheeler.
In the new show, the 25 Words or Less contestant will play Gabby, a ‘needy and dramatic’ bartender, working at the tavern Bobbie (Reba) inherits from her father – according to Deadline.
Blue Beetle’s Belissa Escobedo was cast as as Bobbie’s half-sister Isabella, an ‘enthusiastic’ psychology student, who also inherits the restaurant and has ‘great ideas about how to bring it to life.’
‘I’ve been waiting to share this! REBA! This cast! This script!’ the 25-year-old LA native gushed,
‘No amount of exclamation marks can do it justice. I am so immensely grateful. The last two years have been an uphill battle (thank you Miley) so this is so very welcomed and appreciated. AHHHH!’
Also cased in the flame-haired country crooner’s pilot were 1883’s Tokala Black Elk as kind waiter Takoda and Alaska Daily’s Pablo Castelblanco as OCD-inflicted accountant Steve.
‘I’m very excited, and grateful, and thrilled for this!’ Colombian-born Pablo said at the time.
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