Reba McEntire, Rex Linn. Noam Galai/Getty Images
Reba McEntire is working on a new sitcom — and she’s thrilled that it will characteristic her boyfriend.
NBC announced on Tuesday, Could 7, that The Voice judge, 69, will star in a new series titled Happy’s Position. McEntire previously starred in her self-titled Reba series from 2001 to 2007 on the WB and CW networks.
“We have been performing on attempting to get another exhibit because we have been canceled on the Reba display,” McEntire explained to Amusement Tonight in an job interview published Wednesday, May 8. “We obtained to do Malibu Nation for one particular season. We have obtained the identical producers, same showrunner, exact same writers, and now we’re again with Melissa Peterman and Rex Linn, my boyfriend, and amazing, superb solid and crew.”
Linn, 67, will be participating in the part of the shorter buy cook.
“He is variety of the patriarch now that [the character’s] daddy has died. ‘Cause he has been with the tavern the longest,” McEntire stated to ET.
The few at first fulfilled on the established of Kenny Rogers’ 1991 film, The Gambler Returns: The Luck of the Draw. They reunited a few a long time afterwards in 2020 when they labored alongside one another on Younger Sheldon, and their chemistry was electrical. McEntire told E! News previous month that they’ve been “very much inseparable” because that reunion.
Peterman, 52, starred in the Reba series as Barbra Jean Hart, who married the fictional Reba’s ex-spouse, Brock Hart. In Happy’s Position, she will portray Gabby, a bartender at a new cafe opened by McEntire’s character.
McEntire and Peterman also appeared together in Young Sheldon, Functioning Class, The Hammer and Toddler Daddy.
The place new music legend will serve as executive producer of her new sequence. She will star as Bobbie, who inherits her father’s cafe pursuing his dying. She before long discovers that her enterprise associate in the endeavor is a half-sister she never realized she had.
Hocus Pocus 2 star Belissa Escobedo will surface as Bobbie’s youthful half-sister, Isabella. Happy’s Location is also set to star Pablo Castelblanco from Alaska Each day and Tokala Black Elk, who appeared in Yellowstone.
“It’s lots of enjoyable. I appreciate all genres of entertainment. But the sitcoms are so a lot pleasurable, lead to it’s a manufacturer new script each individual 7 days,” McEntire previously advised ET final month. “And you’re just obtaining fun. It is really challenging memorizing dialogue you have to do, but it ain’t my 1st rodeo. I do adore it. And it is just playtime. We have a blast with it.”
She continued: “It’s gonna be that heartfelt, enjoyment, amusing, laugh at our silliness. But also, [you’ll] be touched with the coronary heart in our present.”
In a individual interview, McEntire verified that she ideas to sing the concept song for Happy’s Put. “We’ve began doing the job on it, and we’ll have it shortly concluded,” she instructed Persons. “If they say it’s a go, I’ll finish it up and have it ready for when we go to series.”
