The series will complete a full 18-episode first season
NBC has ordered five additional episodes of Reba McEntire’s new comedy series, Happy’s Place. The multi-camera comedy will wrap its first season with a full-18-episode order in 2025. The news follows the network commissioning five additional scripts for the series, a rare 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 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.
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.
