Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman are working together again in a new sitcom called Happy’s Place, and the show that debuts on NBC tonight at 8p lives up to its title.
Bobbie’s (Reba) father just passed away, and the lawyer is coming over to read the will as the bar she shared with her late dad. She thinks she knows everything that is included in the will, but she is in for a big surprise.
Isabella (Belissa Escobedo) is also there to hear the will read, and she doesn’t know why. It turns out that Bobbie and her are half-sisters, and now they each own half of the bar.
Bobbie is not happy (but then again, she never is) to learn that their father had an affair and that she has to share the bar she devoted her life to with some woman she does not know.
Maybe it won’t be that bad, right? Wrong! Isabella wants to make changes, and Bobbie likes things the way they are.
Even though they are sisters, they are polar opposites. That is going to make things even harder for them to get to know each other from in front of and behind the bar.
Thankfully, they have help from the bar staff. Gabby (Peterman) is Bobbie’s friend and works behind the bar, serving drinks. Well, she is more of a friend to Bobbie than the other way around, and she wishes they could be closer.
However, not as close as Emmett (Rex Linn) was to Bobbie. Along with being the cook, he is also her ex.
They are like a family, and for Bobbie, it means getting a new family member. How will they adapt to Isabella joining their tribe? We will have to tune in every week to find out.
Happy’s Place is created by Kevin Abbott, who worked the singer on Reba and Malibu Country. And with that, you know we have a winner on our hands. The two of them are magic together. Plus. The show lets Reba work with her good friend Peterman again, and her real-life boyfriend plays her ex.
The chemistry was there before they even started working together. That makes this series even more special.
What truly makes it special is all the laughs it delivers. And who doesn’t need to laugh on Fridays after a long week of work?
Melissa Peterman has two shows on the air: the game show Person, Place or Thing and the sitcom Happy’s Place. Therefore, you would think she doesn’t need any more jobs. However, she was seen vacuuming the red carpet at the Emmys in a gown.
So, has the game show host/actress hit hard times? Nope. She was just having some fun! And helping someone out!
Peterman’s second sitcom with Reba McEntire premieres October 18th on NBC.
It has been 16 years since we said goodbye to Reba. However, the cast didn’t say goodbye to each other when the cameras stopped rolling, and they are still good friends.
On Saturday night, Reba McEntire played the Hollywood Bowl, and her daughter with her husband, and her husband’s new wife came to see her perform. Not her real family, but the one she had on her show.
Seeing the Country singer reunited with JoAnna Garcia, Steve Howey, and Melissa Peterman makes me wish the rumors of a sequel series would come true already. I miss their sitcom!
That was then. Over the weekend, the five of them got together to celebrate Theler’s wedding to Lisa Marie Summerscales. Proving that they are still a family. So much so, Theler asked his TV mom to perform the ceremony.
I don’t know about you, but I am still missing ABC Family’s Baby Daddy, and I would really love to see that cast together again.
Well, I am in luck and so are you? That is because Derek Theler, Melissa Peterman, Chelsea Kane, Jean-Luc Bilodeau, and Tahj Mowry reunited on Zoom.
While we are not getting a full-fledge reunion, we did get this photo.
Now maybe Freeform will find a way to bring back ABC Family’s biggest comedy. I still don’t understand why they canceled this and Young & Hungry. Do you?
