The Friday night NBC series been very popular with viewers across multiple platforms.
Looks like we’ll be seeing a lot more of Reba McEntire and the rest of the gang at Happy’s Place.
NBC announced Thursday that the network is picking up the well-received sitcom for a second season. Of course, the news is something short of surprising — after all, according to the showbiz site Deadline, the half-hour show has improved the network’s Friday 8 pm ET time slot by 54 percent in total viewers. Better still, the Happy’s Place pilot episode is now up to 17.6 million viewers across all platforms, more than 338 percent from its Oct. 18 premiere. It’s also the No. 2 NBC comedy launch ever on the streamer Peacock, behind only St. Denis Medical.
Obviously, viewers just love them some Reba.
McEntire stars in the sitcom as Bobbie, who inherits Happy’s Place, her father’s tavern in Knoxville, Tennessee, and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister (Belissa Escobedo) she never knew she had.
As the two women grow to love and accept each other, they continue to operate Happy’s Place with the help of four colorful supporting characters: Gaby (Melissa Peterman, pictured above with McEntire), the well-meaning but aggressively needy bartender; Steve (Pablo Castelblanco), Bobbie’s germaphobe accountant; Takota (Tokala Black Elk of American Primeval), the tavern’s wise and warm-hearted waiter and maintenance worker; and Emmet (Rex Linn, McEntire’s real-life significant other), the gruff short-order cook who may be sweet on Bobbie.
