Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman going live on UPtv & Reba Facebook pages Oct 5th
UPtv, the television home for uplifting entertainment, will celebrate the 20th anniversary of Reba McEntire’s eponymous sitcom Reba. The celebration includes a “Rebaversary” marathon of the show on Friday, October 1st, and Saturday, October 2nd, complete with exclusive content and DVD extras. The marathon will feature episodes hand-picked by the cast.
In celebration, McEntire and co-star Melissa Peterman — who played Barbara Jean in the series — will be participating in a Facebook Live on October 5th, which is 20 years to the day the series premiered on The WB in 2001 (after being delayed by nearly a month due to 9-11). The live will be hosted by TV and radio personality Kelly Sutton, and will be simulcast across Reba’s and UPtv’s Facebook pages from 6-6:45 pm ET/3-3:45 pm PT.
“We are elated to have the entertaining and always fun pair of Reba and Melissa Peterman participating in a Facebook Live as we celebrate 20 years of the beloved series, Reba,” states Wendy McCoy, senior vice president of marketing at UP Entertainment. “Reba is a staple in our lineup and to bring fans this chance to reminisce and hear from two of the stars themselves, is incredible. We have some surprises planned for the Live event so be sure to join us on Facebook @UPtv at 6 p.m. ET.”
The series currently airs Mondays through Thursdays beginning at 7 pm ET.
In Reba, the Hart family is in the midst of a divorce as Texas soccer mom Reba watches her white-picket-fenced world collapse before her very eyes. Her dentist husband, Brock (Christopher Rich, Melissa & Joey), is leaving her after what she thought was 20 happy years of marriage for his impossibly perky and unfortunately pregnant dental hygienist, Barbra Jean (Peterman, Baby Daddy). The cherry on top of this bitter sundae is that Reba’s 17-year-old daughter Cheyenne (JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Once Upon a Time) is pregnant by her boyfriend, the high school’s dim-bulb football star, Van (Steve Howey, Shameless). Rounding out the happy brood is 12-year-old Kyra (Scarlett Pomers) who is greeting puberty with venom, and 9-year-old Jake (Mitch Holleman), whose biggest concern is whether his best friend can sleep over. Determined to take some semblance of control back in her upside-down-turned life, Reba makes a deft shift to “Plan B.” She plots a new course, taking in her new son-in-law Van to live with Cheyenne and their impending child and trying to keep the husband-stealing future stepmother of her children at arm’s length.
Houston, Texas, native Allison M. Gibson created the series. Gibson served as executive producer with Mindy Schultheis and Michael Hanel for Twentieth Century Fox Television.
