Happy’s Place Buzz: Showrunner Hints at ANOTHER Reba Reunion for the New Season!
The following article contains spoilers for Happy’s Place, Season 1.
Reba McEntire’s new NBC sitcom, Happy’s Place, is looking to reunite the actress with more of her Reba co-stars in Season 2. Showrunner Kevin Abbott recently shared his plans for the new season.
Happy’s Place premiered in October 2024, with McEntire starring as Bobbie McAllister, a woman who inherits a bar in Tennessee founded by her father. Bobbie soon finds out she has a half-sister, who also has a claim to the bar’s ownership after the death of their father. As one of NBC’s new sitcoms, Happy’s Place performed well for the network, which led to a second season renewal ahead of the first season’s finale. Now, with a second season on the way, yubi, Abbott revealed to TV Insider that he wants to bring back even more stars from McEntire’s original 2000s sitcom, Reba.
Happy’s Place sees McEntire’s Reba co-star Melissa Peterman playing a main role as Gabby, one of the bartenders at the titular bar. The first season also included notable guest appearances from Shameless star Steve Howey, who played Van Montgomery in Reba and Christopher Rich, who played Reba’s selfish ex-husband Brock in the 2000s sitcom, who appeared in an episode as Maverick.
“We definitely want to bring Joanna [Garcia Swisher] in,” Abbott shared, “We’ve been talking to her. It’s a matter of timing for her.” Garcia played Reba’s daughter, Cheyenne Hart-Montgomery, on the sitcom and went on to gain further popularity in other TV shows, including Once Upon a Time (as Ariel), The Astronaut Wives Club (Betty Grissom), and for hosting Netflix’s reality dating show The Ultimatum: Queer Love. It remains to be seen if the show will bring back Scarlett Pomers or Mitch Holleman, the two actors who rounded out the rest of the Hart family on Reba back in the day.
Happy’s Place Showrunner Teases Season 2’s Story
Whether or not Garcia will be able to make an appearance on Happy’s Place Season 2 remains to be seen, but Abbott also shared other plans he has for the second season of the successful NBC sitcom. With Season 2 now confirmed, Abbott has the opportunity to capitalize on McEntire’s chemistry with her real-life partner Rex Linn, who plays Emmett on the series. As the show goes forward, he wants to explore “Gabby’s motherhood, the Bobbie-Emmett relationship, [and also] Isabella and her backstory.”
“Steve’s becoming a really interesting character to me,” Abbott added. “We want to find out more about Takoda’s home life. […] We wanted to spend a lot of time in Season One letting the audience get to know the characters. Then we’ll get to branch out a little bit more in Season Two now.”
Season 1 of Happy’s Place is now streaming on Peacock.
Source: TV Insider
