Reba McEntire is returning with a new network sitcom

Maybe nature is indeed healing, because Reba McEntire is headed back to network television. The beloved country singer-cum-actor is not only launching another sitcom, she’s doing it with her old Reba crew. Co-star Melissa Peterman and showrunner Kevin Abbott are both on board for the new show, Happy Place. The pilot was first announced at the beginning of the year, and this week NBC ordered the show to series.

Happy Place also stars Belissa Escobedo, Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk and Rex Linn (whom McEntire has been dating since 2020). Per The Hollywood Reporter, the show is about “Bobbie (McEntire), who 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.” Abbott and McEntire will executive produce alongside Michael Hanel, Mindy Schultheis, Julie Abbott.

“We have been working on trying to get another show since we were canceled on the Reba show. We got to do Malibu Country for one season. We’ve got the same producers, same showrunner, same writers and now we’re back with Melissa Peterman and Rex Linn, my boyfriend, and wonderful, wonderful cast and crew,” McEntire said in a statement to People. “We had such a good time doing the pilot—we can’t wait to go back.”

In addition to being a hugely successful country music star, McEntire has spent a fair amount of her career on television. In addition to 2012’s Malibu Country, she had a recurring guest role on Young Sheldon and starred in the third season of Big Sky. She’s also been a coach on The Voice for the past two seasons. And then of course there’s Reba, the beloved sitcom that ran for six seasons on The WB (later The CW). As of this week, Reba is now streaming on Netflix, if you can’t wait to get your fix of a woman with gentle hands and the heart of a fighter.