The first season is set to wrap with 18 episodes
NBC has greenlit a second season for Reba McEntire’s multi-comedy series, Happy’s Place. The freshman series was a breakout for the Peacock network when it premiered in October 2024. The series was initially picked up for 13 episodes, but NBC ordered five additional scripts last fall, bringing the total to 18 for a full season run, a feat in today’s TV landscape.
Happy’s Place, which reunites some of her Reba team, premiered on October 18th to a warm reception, garnering ten million viewers across NBC and Peacock. The debut marked the best new NBC comedy launch yet and improved its timeslot by 90 percent in total viewers. The pilot episode has been viewed over 17.6 million times across all platforms, making it the second-most best comedy launch ever on Peacock behind fellow freshman series St. Denis Medical, according to Deadline.
The series airs on Fridays at 8 pm ET/PT on NBC or the next day on Peacock.
In the series, McEntire plays Bobbie who inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had.
The series also stars McEntire’s boyfriend Rex Linn, Reba alum Melissa Peterman, Belissa Escobedo, Pablo Castelblanco, and Tokala Black Elk. Steve Howie, who portrayed Van Montgomery in Reba, made a guest appearance on the Christmas episode. Christopher Rich, who played the two-timing Brock Hart in the original series, makes a guest appearance in this week’s episode as a tattoo artist who’s suffered a stroke. Rich has been inactive for a decade following a stroke in real life, but tells Entertainment Tonight in a new interview on the set of the series that Reba “Woke up my life” as he found solace in their 35-year friendship.
Former Reba executive producers Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis are returning in the same capacity alongside Julie Abbott and McEntire. The series was written by Kevin Abbott, the showrunner for Reba from 2002-2007, and her follow-up sitcom, Malibu Country, which had a single 18-episode run on ABC in 2012.
McEntire co-wrote the Happy’s Place theme song with band member Doug Sisemore and pop singer/songwriter Carole King.
Happy’s Place is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
