Happy’s Place: Everything We Know About the New NBC Comedy Starring Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman
It’s official: Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman will share the small screen again — this time on NBC.
On May 7, the network handed a series order to Happy’s Place, a multi-camera comedy created by Reba EP Kevin Abbott and starring McEntire and Peterman (fka Barbra Jean). It will air Friday nights at 8/7c during the 2024-25 TV season; a premiere date has not yet been announced.
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Keep scrolling for additional intel on McEntire’s new sitcom…
What is Happy’s Place about?
In Happy’s Place, “Bobbie (played by Reba McEntire) inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister (Hocus Pocus 2′s Belissa Escobedo) she never knew she had,” according to the official logline.
Who is in the Happy’s Place cast?
Reba McEntire leads the ensemble as Bobbie. Belissa Escobedo (Hocus Pocus 2, Blue Beetle) co-stars as Isabella, Bobbie’s enthusiastic, twenty-something half-sister. A psychology student who loves to analyze people, “she is thrilled to start working at the tavern and is full of ‘great’ ideas about how to bring it to life.”
Melissa Peterman, meanwhile, will play Gabby, a bartender at the restaurant. “She is a bit needy and dramatic and would have loved to be Bobbie’s sister,” per the official description. (Sounds a lot like Barbra Jean!)
Rounding out the ensemble are McEntire’s real-life boyfriend Rex Linn (Young Sheldon), who plays tavern cook Emmett; Tokala Black Elk (Yellowstone) as waiter Takoda; and Pablo Castelblanco (Alaska Daily) as accountant Steve.
Why should Reba fans should be excited?
Happy’s Place reunites McEntire and Peterman more than 17 years after Reba ended its run on The CW. The sitcom first premiered on The WB in 2001, running for six seasons (and 125 episodes) through 2007. The series told the story of Reba Hart, “a single mom who worked too hard, who loved her kids and never stopped,” after longtime husband Brock left her for his dental hygienist, Peterman’s Barbra Jean.
Over the course of the series, Reba warmed to Barbra Jean despite her best efforts to keep Brock’s second wife at an arm’s length — something that proved all the more difficult once Brock and Barbra Jean bought the house next door. (All six seasons are now streaming on Netflix.)
Reba Cast: Then and Now
McEntire previously reunited with Peterman on CMT’s Working Class and Freeform’s Baby Daddy, as well as the Lifetime original movie The Hammer. Interestingly, while McEntire and Peterman both recur on CBS’ Young Sheldon, sometimes appearing in the same episode, their characters — June Ballard and Brenda Sparks — have never crossed paths.
When can I watch Happy’s Place?
Happy’s Place will air Fridays at 8/7c on NBC (and stream next day on Peacock) this fall. A premiere date has not yet been announced.
The McEntire sitcom joins fellow newbie St. Denis Medical and returning comedies Night Court and Lopez vs. Lopez on NBC’s lineup next season. Fellow multi-cam Extended Family, which starred Jon Cryer, Abigail Spencer and Donald Faison, was cancelled after a single season.
TVLine will keep you posted as we learn more about Happy’s Place, so be sure to bookmark this page and check back regularly. In the meantime, hit the comments and tell us if you’re looking forward to the Reba reunion on NBC.
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