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NBC seems to be happy with “Happy’s Place.” The NBC comedy starring Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman was given five additional episodes, bringing its Season 1 episode count up to 18.

It’s not entirely surprising that the network would be eager to continue this show. The premiere of “Happy’s Place” saw 14 million viewers across all platforms. The premiere improved NBC’s Friday night timeslot from 8 – 8:30 p.m. by 90% among total viewers and 88% in the 18-49 demo.

The comedy stars McEntire as Bobbie, a woman who inherits her late father’s taverns, known as Happy’s Place. However, when she takes over the bar, she discovers that she has a new business partner in a 20-something half-sister she never knew she had, Isabella (Belissa Escobedo).

In addition to McEntire, Escobedo and Peterson, the series stars Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk and Rex Linn. “Happy’s Place” was created by Kevin and Julie Abbott,...

Prime Video’s November programming will dip its toe into Christmas and other holiday offerings such as The Holiday (2006) starring Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz and Jack Black. The streamer will also add some films with sequels arriving in theaters this month, like Sonic the Hedgehog (2020) and Ridley Scott’s 1992 film Gladiator.

For the full list of Prime Video programming in November 2024, see below.

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12 Days of Christmas Eve (2004) 3 Ninjas Knuckle Up (1995) 50 To 1 (2014) A Knight’s Tale (2001) Absolute Deception (2013) Across The Universe (2007) Agent Cody Banks (2003) Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) Airplane II: The Sequel (1982) Airplane! (1980) All Saints (2017) Almost Christmas (2016) Anacondas: The Hunt For The Blood Orchid (2004) Anger Management (2003) Apache (1954) Bad Company (2002) Battlefield Earth (2000) Battleship (2012) Big Night (1996) Blizzard (2003) Blown Away (1993) Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius (2004) Boomerang (1992) Bucky Larson Born To Be A Star (2011) Carrie...

A reluctant Bobbie (Reba McEntire) agrees to reenter the dating pool in TVLine’s exclusive sneak peek at Friday’s Happy’s Place (NBC, 8/7c).

When the episode starts out, Gabby (Melissa Peterman) has just suffered yet another heartbreak — hence the root beer float she’s finishing off as Bobbie and Isabella (Belissa Escobedo) find her in Bobbie’s office. She’s ready to give up on love, but Bobbie doesn’t want that for her friend. She agrees to join a dating app so that Gabby doesn’t feel so alone in her search. In exchange, though, Gabby must allow...

Was Happy’s Place originally supposed to be a Reba reboot and what happened to the initial plan? Fans have long wanted the Og cast completely back together but that has only happened via social media. So, how did the reboot spin into another series? Keep reading for all of the details.

Happy’s Place Originally Reba Reboot?

The Reba cast is still very close and they are not shy about how they created a family in the six seasons they were on air. In 2023, the cast got together to cheer on Reba McEntire when she performed at the Hollywood Bowl. Those who celebrated the “single mom who worked two jobs” were Steve Howey, Melissa Peterman, JoAnna Garcia Swisher, and Christopher Rich.

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This was essentially Reba’s whole television family minus Mitch Holleman (Jake) and Scarlett Pomers (Kyra). While watching the fiery redhead belt out her hits, they were asked about a revival.

Hallmark+ is premiering a new competition reality show that is unlike anything they have ever done. This new series is called Finding Mr. Christmas. Hosted by Groomsmen star and Mean Girls favorite Jonathan Bennett, this new series puts 10 potential Christmas movie leads through a series of challenges required to be a Hallmark Hunk. Reba star Melissa Peterman is there to judge, as well as different guest stars, and Jonathan.

“Host Jonathan Bennett invites 10 unknown talents to compete for the role of a lifetime–a leading role in a Hallmark Christmas movie. Secrets are revealed at an Ugly Sweater Runway show and contestants pair up for their first acting scene with surprise scene partner and Hallmark movie favorite, Erin Cahill.”When does this premiere episode drop? Here is that information and more on the first-ever episode of Finding Mr. Christmas.

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Happy’s Place is a comedy series created by Julie and Kevin Abbott. The NBC series follows Bobbie, an old woman who co-inherits her father’s bar with her half-sister she never knew she had. After learning this Bobbie tries to make her sister feel welcome in the family business but their completely different life experiences always get in the way. Happy’s Place stars Reba McEntire, Melissa Peterman, Rex Linn, Belissa Escobedo, Tokala Black Elk, and Pablo Castelblanco. So, if you loved the hilarious comedy, family-like bonds, and compelling characters in Happy’s Place here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Cheers is a comedy series created by James Burrows, Glen, and Les Charles. The NBC series is set in Boston and it follows Sam who runs a bar where people from all walks...

Country music star Reba McEntire is back on network television in a new comedy series called “Happy’s Place.” The sitcom, which premiered recently on NBC, sees McEntire reuniting with her former “Reba” co-star Melissa Peterman. “Happy’s Place” centers around Bobbie, played by McEntire, who inherits her late father’s tavern. She discovers she has a long-lost half-sister, and the two must now co-own the business.

This unexpected family dynamic sets the stage for conflict and character development in the series. The show also brings McEntire and Peterman back together on screen. Peterman plays Gabby, a bartender at Happy’s Place, reprising a dynamic similar to her role as Barbra Jean on “Reba.”

Some critics note similarities between the two characters, with concerns Gabby may also come across as ditzy. An anonymous industry source said comparing Gabby to Barbra Jean is “a major problem” that could cause the new series to live...

Reba McEntire had a successful run with her Reba sitcom, which aired for six seasons and 126 episodes. However, her follow-up comedy, Malibu Country, lasted just one season before being cancelled. How will her newest foray into comedy perform on NBC? Will Happy's Place be cancelled or renewed for season two? Stay tuned.

A traditional sitcom, the Happy’s Place TV series was created by Kevin Abbott and Julie Abbott. The comedy stars McEntire, Belissa Escobedo, Melissa Peterman, Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk, and Rex Linn. In the story, Bobbie (McEntire) is a divorcée whose daughter is deployed in the military. She’s inherited her father’s neighborhood tavern, Happy’s Place, a business she’s been running for a decade. Bobbie’s surprised to discover she now has a new business partner, Isabella (Escobedo), a twenty-something half-sister she never knew she had. A...

If streamers are increasingly looking for shows with wide appeal — and they are — it stands to reason that TV networks’ best hope for success is making shows for audiences that aren’t just broad, but whose sensibilities are closer to hyper-normie. The few sitcoms that are even still being made to be broadcast over the air can’t be genre-straddling tone poems like The Bear: premise-wise, less is more. Happy’s Place fits the brief.

The show — which premieres on NBC today — should get extra credit for fitting nearly all its action on a single set: the titular Tennessee tavern. Happy, for whom said tavern was named, died just before the events of the series pilot, leaving the business to his daughter Bobbie (Reba McEntire), who’s already been running the place for many years. But her hopes for seamless continuity in the tavern’s management are scuttled when Happy...

Just over 15 years after “Reba” closed out its six-season run, “Happy’s Place” creator Kevin Abbott reunited with the sitcom’s team to explore a potential “Reba” reboot series.

“I had actually come up with where the characters were at, where their lives were at [and] what was going to be the dynamic was some new characters,” Abbott told TheWrap, noting that executives were initially “very interested” in the idea. However, he added that as time went by and the industry consolidated further, the reboot didn’t move forward “for various financial reasons and rights reasons,” per Abbott.

“I’d spent six months doing this thing and been working on it and Reba [McEntire] was like, ‘well, let’s just do another one … we’ll do something else. I was like, ‘I don’t have another one in my back pocket,'” Abbott recalled. “So I called my wife [Julie Abbott] to complain...

More than 20 years after the debut of her hit series “Reba,” Reba McEntire has reunited with executive producers Kevin Abbott, Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis as well as co-star Melissa Peterman for a new multi-cam NBC sitcom “Happy’s Place.” Though this new show is unrelated to the beloved WB series, which aired for six seasons, it has the heart, fun and familiarity that made the early 2000s series such a delight. Though critics only received two episodes in advance, thus far, “Happy’s Place” is nostalgic, funny and heartfelt. In addition to an eclectic cast of characters and McEntire’s signature edge woven throughout the comedy, the Tennessee-set sitcom feels like a universal crowdpleaser about family, friendship and generational divisions while paying homage to past TV shows’ rhythmic beats and tone.

“Happy’s Place” opens at its namesake, a tavern known as a neighborhood staple for regulars. Following her father’s death,...

Sitcoms are back! Well, not really. But NBC and CBS are partying like it’s 1994 this fall and rolling out a pair of old-fashioned situation comedies that would’ve fit right in on a primetime schedule three decades ago: NBC’s Happy’s Place (premiering Friday at 8/7c), starring Reba McEntire; and CBS’ Poppa’s House (premiering Monday at 8:30 pm), pairing up Damon Wayans with his son Damon Wayans Jr. Both shows feature seasoned sitcom veterans cracking jokes in multi-cam yukfests… but unfortunately, both seem to be sorely lacking in the laughs department.

Happy’s Place reunites McEntire with her Reba co-star...

After 23 years, Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman have seen a little too much of Steve Howey.

As the trio enjoyed a mini Reba reunion for an upcoming episode of Happy’s Place, which premieres Friday at 8pm Et/Pt on NBC, McEntire and Peterman recalled the shock of seeing their former onscreen son-in-law’s nude scene in the 2011 Shameless pilot episode.

“I’ll never forget us coming to work. ‘Did you see Steve last night?’ ‘Yes, yes I did. Oh! Oh my gosh!'” recalled McEntire from the set of their new sitcom on Entertainment Tonight.

Peterman added, “And I said, ‘You need to warn us if there’s gonna be some unclothing happening in Shameless because you’re like our brother. It was too much… But I then did watch it later, after I washed my eyes out. Because you’re so good on it.”

Howey joked “that’s why I started working out,...

Steve Howey is reuniting with his Reba co-stars!

Ahead of the October 18 premiere of NBC’s new sitcom Happy’s Place starring Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman, it has been revealed that Steve, 47, will be making a special guest appearance on an upcoming episode of the the show.

Keep reading to find out more…According to a synopsis provided by NBC to TVLine, Steve will be playing Danny, “a wealthy business owner that Gabby (Peterman) has met at a dog park. In order to impress him, Gabby has pretended to be Bobbie (McEntire) because she thinks that will make her more interesting … that is, until he wants to hold his holiday party at the tavern.”

As of right now, Steve will only be appearing on one episode of Happy’s Place, but series creator Kevin Abbott hopes to bring Steve back in the future.

“One of the arcs for [Melissa’s] character Gabby is...

Steve Howey is reuniting with his Reba co-stars!

Ahead of the October 18 premiere of NBC’s new sitcom Happy’s Place starring Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman, it has been revealed that Steve, 47, will be making a special guest appearance on an upcoming episode of the the show.

Keep reading to find out more…According to a synopsis provided by NBC to TVLine, Steve will be playing Danny, “a wealthy business owner that Gabby (Peterman) has met at a dog park. In order to impress him, Gabby has pretended to be Bobbie (McEntire) because she thinks that will make her more interesting … that is, until he wants to hold his holiday party at the tavern.”

As of right now, Steve will only be appearing on one episode of Happy’s Place, but series creator Kevin Abbott hopes to bring Steve back in the future.

“One of the arcs for [Melissa’s] character Gabby is...

Get ready for a Reba reunion on the new comedy Happy’s Place that should enthrall fans!

Reba McEntire is the rare case of a performer just as famous for TV shows as the world of country music. After establishing herself as one of the biggest country music stars ever with more number-one hits and awards than can be counted, McEntire decided to give TV a try in 2001 with the WB comedy Reba.

She played Reba Hart, a Houston native who’s thrown when, during a counseling session, she learns her husband Brock (Christopher Rich) has gotten his nutty dental assistant Barbara Jean (Melissa Peterman) pregnant. Before she can recover from that, Reba learns her daughter Cheyenne (JoAnna Garcia) is pregnant by her dimwitted jock boyfriend Van (Steve Howey). Reba has to handle this strange new family dynamic, not helped by how Barbara Jean thinks they’re friends.

The show was a hit,...

NBC Thursday released the names of the 14 lucky new players who will be battling the banker (and each other) in Season 2 of Deal or No Deal Island. Included in the bunch is Survivor winner Parvati Shallow, and this time around, she’ll be facing off against a Big Brother legend: Dr. Will Kirby. Let the island games begin!

Shallow is no stranger to competition reality series. She first debuted in Survivor: Cook Islands, and later played on the Micronesia – Fans vs. Favorites season (which she won), in addition to Heroes vs. Villains and Winners at War. She was most recently...

It has been announced that Reba McEntire will reunite with Steve Howey on her new sitcom Happy’s Place. The actor had previously been her co-star on her namesake sitcom, Reba. Howey isn’t the only actor to reunite with McEntire on the new show and more might be planned.

Some Fans Know Him As Van, Others As Kevin

Howey got his first starring role on McEntire’s self-titled sitcom, Reba. On the show, he played Van Montgomery, the ditzy boyfriend and eventual husband of Reba’s daughter Cheyenne. After getting Cheyenne pregnant while still in high school at the start of the series, Van’s parents throw him out, causing him to move into Reba’s household.

First appearing in 2001, Howey remained on the show until its end in 2007. He and Cheyenne’s actress, JoAnna García-Swisher, also appeared in the music video for McEntire’s “Every Other Weekend.”

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Since then,...

Stars of “Happy’s Place,” “Night Court,” “St. Denis Medical” and “Lopez vs. Lopez” attended the NBC Fall Comedy Celebration at Universal Studios in Los Angeles on October 9, 2024. The exclusive event featured pop-up bars and food stations dedicated to each of the titles premiering this fall on NBC and Peacock.

I caught up with “Happy’s Place” star Reba McEntire, who said it feels “wonderful” to return to television with the same crew she worked with on her hit show “Reba” from 2001-2007. “We’ve been looking for another show ever since we got cancelled,” she admits. The country music superstar and actress says she remained friends with “Reba” co-star Melissa Peterman, who joins her in “Happy’s Place” as well. “Melissa and I have been buddies since 2001,” she explains. “We go on vacations together. Even when I was touring, she’d come in and open the show for me and do a...

From sitcoms and dramas to limited series and revivals, fall TV is officially back with more new shows than in the past. But who’s creating this content? Here, Variety highlights the showrunners behind some of the new, most highly anticipated series coming in the next few months.

Kevin Abbott

Writer and executive producer of “Happy’s Place,” Abbott has worked with Reba McEntire before, both as a writer on and produce on “Reba.” Previously, Abbott produced 160 episodes of “Last Man Standing” and worked on “My Name Is Earl,” “Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place,” “Roseanne” and “The Golden Girls.”

Produced by: Universal TV

Premiere: Oct. 18, NBC

Joe Barton

“Black Doves,” a spy thriller set in London at Christmastime, was created by Barton and is led by Keira Knightley. In the past five years, he created and produced “Giri/Haji,” “The Bastard Son & the Devil Himself” and “The Lazarus Project.

If the gloves had ever been on, they sure as shootin’ came off during Monday’s Night 2 of The Voice’s Season 26 Blind Auditions. Reba McEntire found herself Block’d, Snoop Dogg was moved to call for an instant Replay, Michael Bublé dredged up his painful past as a Chuck E. Cheese rat, and Gwen Stefani appeared to position a returning Season 1 contestant as the next, well, her. But which performances really deserved the hard-sell recruitment efforts? Read on, and we’ll discuss.

Dreion (Team Snoop), “Shining Star” — Grade: A | Singing the classic by Earth, Wind & Fire, for whom he has opened,...

Music star and actress Reba McEntire has recently talked about her latest sitcom, Happy’s Pace. McEntire talked about what it was like working with a familiar co-star. She also noted what it was like working with her real-life boyfriend Rex Linn on the series.

Fans Can Expect A Familiar Co-Star

In her new series, McEntire plays Bobbie, who owns a bar left to her by her late father.

However, she soon learns she has a half-sister, Isabella, played by actress Belissa Escobedo, who was made co-owner by their father’s will.

Reba McEntire on The Voice – YouTube

In a statement with Entertainment Weekly, McEntire explained a bit about the character, saying she has been running her father’s bar for the past decade. As she added, “She was married, but her husband passed away. She has one daughter that is deployed in the Army, so she’s pretty much...

Ayo Edebiri, nominated for her leading role on the critically acclaimed series “The Bear,” had an unexpected meeting with Reba McEntire at this year’s Emmy Awards ceremony. Edebiri, walking the red carpet, came upon McEntire and her former costar Melissa Peterman, who were presenting an award that evening.

Edebiri was visibly thrilled by the encounter. “Oh my God, my legs are shaking,” she admitted, struggling to contain her excitement. Despite her nervousness, she expressed admiration for both McEntire and Peterman. Edebiri told them she had spent many hours watching their sitcom “Reba,” highlighting the show’s impact on younger viewers.

Peterman revealed she was also a fan of Edebiri’s current work. “We’re spending so many hours with you right now,” Peterman said, underscoring how established stars and newcomers influence each other.

#AyoEdebiri has the only valid reaction when running into #Reba and #MelissaPeterman. : https://t.co/sVBOWlGZOW pic.

The West Wing, Happy Days, Saturday Night Live, Reba and Schitt’s Creek were among the popular series to reunite their casts at the 2024 Emmys.

With NBC’s The West Wing celebrating the 25th anniversary of its series premiere on Sept. 22, 1999, the show’s stars Martin Sheen, Dulé Hill, Janel Moloney, Richard Schiff and Allison Janney took the stage in front of a replica of its Oval Office set. Aaron Sorkin created the program that ran for seven seasons and centered on the administration of President Josiah Bartlet (Sheen).

“It’s hard to believe that just 25 years ago, Aaron and the writers actually had to use their imaginations to create interesting plotlines for The West Wing,” Janney quipped. Schiff added, “Unlike today, where storylines can be plucked right off the news — storylines that writers would have deemed a bit far-fetched, if not utterly ridiculous, 25 years ago.”

In honor of the 50th...

The 2024 Emmy Awards were filled with several memorable moments throughout the night on Sunday, from historical wins and powerful speeches to heartfelt cast reunions and political jokes. Some of them included Anna Sawai, Liza Colón-Zayas and Hiroyuki Sanada making history with their wins; Candice Bergen making a catty J.D. Vance joke; and The West Wing, Happy Days and Saturday Night Live casts reuniting onstage. Below, The Hollywood Reporter highlights some of the night’s unforgettable moments.

John Leguizamo Celebrates Diverse Emmy Nominees in Powerful Speech

John Leguizamo is “almost happy and certainly less angry” with the nominees for the 2024 Emmys. When taking the stage during Sunday night’s show, the Emmy-winning actor was quick to point out, “I’m one of Hollywood’s Dei hires. That’s right, Dei. The ‘D’ is for diligence, the ‘E’ is for excellence, the ‘I’ is for imagination. And everyone in this room tonight...

Exclusive: True Lies star Steve Howey has signed with Iag for representation.

Howey was most recently seen as Harry Tasker in CBS’ True Lies, the series reboot of James Cameron’s hit 1994 action comedy movie. Howey and Ginger Gonzaga starred in the roles made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jamie Lee Curtis in the film.

Howey is maybe best known for his starring role as Kevin Ball in Showtime’s Shameless alongside Willian H. Macy and Emmy Rossum. His numerous other television credits include Sons of Anarchy, Jennifer Falls, New Girl, Psych and Reba, which was the first series regular role of his career.

On the film side, Howey starred opposite Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco in Netflix’s, Day Shift for director, J.J. Perry and producer Chad Stahelski. He also appeared in Warner Bros.’ Something Borrowed with Kate Hudson and John Krasinski, and in 20th Century Fox’s Bride Wars...

Reba McEntire may be 69, but she’s also a super busy woman. In fact, she’s so busy that two of her ongoing projects are kinda actually overlapping.

Reba McEntire will be returning to ‘The Voice‘ for the third year in a row for season 26, and alongside this super cool gig, she’s also shooting her new TV show that sees her reunite with former ‘Reba’ co-star Melissa Peterman.

Reba McEntire Compares Shooting ‘Happy Place’ And ‘The Voice’ To Shooting ‘Big Sky’ And Doing Concerts For This Reason

While promoting the new comedy show, McEntire, Peterman and Belissa Escobedo spoke to TV Insider during their TCA 2024 summer press tour.

During their chat, McEntire revealed what it’s like joggling ‘The Voice’ with ‘Happy Place.’ “Some days [the shoots] are overlapping,” McEntire said. “But it’s so much better than two years ago when I was doing Big Sky in Albuquerque for ABC,...

Reba McEntire will be singing on Happy’s Place and revealed she is working on the theme song.

“It’s written, and we’re recording it at the end of this month,” McEntire said at the 2024 Summer Television Critics Association Press Tour about the show’s theme song. Hope you like it.”

McEntire sang the “I’m a Survivor” theme song of her 2001 sitcom Reba, which recently took a life of its own, becoming a trending audio on TikTok.

In Happy’s Place, McEntire plays Bobbie, who inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in her half-sister Isabella, played by Belissa Escobedo, whom she never knew she had.

McEntire’s musical talents will also be used within the show, as she revealed there’s a stage in the tavern where the series takes place with room for the singer to perform.

Reba McEntire starred in six seasons of her self-titled WB (later the CW) sitcom, Reba — but, for all of the 127 episodes that aired, it’s probably the opening 29 seconds that still clung on the hardest to popular culture.

“I’m a Survivor,” Reba‘s theme and a slightly tweaked version of a track of the same name she also released in 2001, endures on TikTok and Instagram where it is often parodied for its lyrics about “a single mom who works too hard.” So, now that McEntire is returning to TV with a NBC sitcom, might musical lightning strike twice?

“It’s written, and we’re recording it at the end of this month,” McEntire told members of the TV press in a promotional event for her upcoming half-hour, Happy’s Place. “We’ll see if you like it.”

Rejoice, McEntire fans. Barring some real bad focus-grouping, the country star will also...

Reba McEntire is returning to acting with a new sitcom on NBC. Fans of the multi-talented star will get a double dose of her twang as she pulls double-duty on the scripted show and as a coach on The Voice. When will Happy’s Place premiere this fall? Keep reading for all the details.

Legendary Singer Returns As Voice Coach

After Blake Shelton announced he was leaving The Voice, the singing competition searched high and low for a replacement. The show’s producers approached Reba McEntire and she accepted the gig this time. She was the first choice to take one of the iconic chairs when the show began in 2011, but turned it down.

She was the winning coach of Season 25 and will return for Season 26, airing this fall.

Reba McEntire/Credit: YouTube First Look At New Reba McEntire Sitcom & Premiere Date

Reba McEntire has a long list of acting credits...

A week after making its first appearance on the streaming charts, former Showtime drama Your Honor has rocketed to No. 1 overall.

The series starring Bryan Cranston nearly tripled its viewing time on Netflix and Paramount+ in the week of June 3-9, grabbing 1.53 billion minutes (vs. 544 million the week before) and bumping Bridgerton out of the top overall spot. Your Honor had its Netflix premiere on May 31.

Bridgerton, meanwhile, fell by about 42 percent week to week and finished with 806 million minutes of viewing — a figure that’s likely to go up in the next set of rankings, which will include the release of the Netflix show’s final season three episodes. It finished ninth overall and third among original series, behind Eric (926 million minutes of viewing) and Sweet Tooth (874 million).

Star Wars series The Acolyte, which premiered June 4, had 488 million minutes of viewing for its first two episodes — good for seventh...

There were no surprises on Nielsen’s weekly streaming rankings for May 27-June 2.

“Bridgerton” stayed on top for the third week in a row with 1.4 billion minutes watched in the second full week of availability for Season 3’s first four episodes, though the total is inclusive of both previous seasons of the show, which certainly continue to deliver strong viewership as evidenced by Netflix and Luminate’s recent charts, which separate viewership by season.

As such, the Top 10 was almost identical to last weeks. Only “Dune: Part Two” fell off of the chart — though it remained in the Top 10 streaming movies at No. 2 — and it was replaced by “Reba,” which didn’t chart last week but did the week before after being added to Netflix. And after the release of its fourth season’s second episode, “Evil” was the only streaming original besides “Bridgerton” — though it was boosted by the...

The rule of Bridgerton — and Shonda Rhimes — on the streaming charts continued into the first two days of June.

Bridgerton declined about 37 percent in viewing time from a week earlier, but the Regency-era drama still ranked No. 1 overall on Nielsen’s charts for May 27-June 2 with 1.38 billion minutes of watch time on Netflix. The series has claimed the top spot for three straight weeks since its May 16 premiere, with another surge likely coming when results for the second half of the season (which debuted June 13) begin to arrive.

Rhimes’ Shondaland also had two other entries on the charts: Grey’s Anatomy came in third overall with 1.2 billion minutes on Hulu and Netflix. Bridgerton prequel Queen Charlotte also edged back into the top 10 original series list, scoring 274 million minutes of viewing.

Jennifer Lopez’s sci-fi film Atlas grew by 36 percent in its second week on the charts, taking fourth place overall and...

We have sad news to report today. It has been announced that Martin Mull, the hugely talented comedian and actor known for playing Colonel Mustard in Clue, Leon Carp in Roseanne, Gene Parmesan in Arrested Development, and more, has died at the age of 80.

The news was revealed by Martin’s daughter Maggie on Instagram. “I am heartbroken to share that my father passed away at home on June 27th, after a valiant fight against a long illness,” Maggie wrote. “He was known for excelling at every creative discipline imaginable and also for doing Red Roof Inn commercials. He would find that joke funny. He was never not funny. My dad will be deeply missed by his wife and daughter, by his friends and coworkers, by fellow artists and comedians and musicians, and—the sign of a truly exceptional person—by many, many dogs. I loved him tremendously.“

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Season three of Bridgerton ruled the streaming charts for a second straight week, holding onto most of its premiere week audience and racking up more than 2 billion minutes of viewing.

A pair of sci-fi films, Jennifer Lopez’s Atlas and Dune: Part Two, also had pretty strong showings in the week of May 20-26, and Max’s Hacks and Hulu’s Under the Bridge entered the rankings as they neared the end of their seasons.

Bridgerton had 2.19 billion minutes of viewing for the week, down just 21 percent from 2.76 billion for the previous seven days. The period drama had almost double the viewing time of the second-place show, Grey’s Anatomy (1.1 billion) — which, like Bridgerton, comes from mega-producer Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland. Kids’ favorite Bluey (1.07 billion minutes) crossed the billion-minute threshold for the 20th time in 21 measured weeks so far this year.

Atlas, which premiered May 24 on Netflix, had 795 million minutes of viewing,...

The webs of romance in Bridgerton easily captured the top spot among all streaming titles for the show’s return. Theatrical flop Madame Web, meanwhile, found a promising start to its streaming life.

Bridgerton drew 2.76 billion minutes of viewing time in the United States for the week of May 13-19. The first half of season three premiered on May 16, and Nielsen says those four episodes accounted for 70 percent of the total, or about 1.93 billion minutes — which would still have ranked No. 1 by a wide margin. The remaining 827 million minutes came from the first two seasons.

Madame Web — whose mom was in the Amazon researching spiders right before she died — premiered May 14 on Netflix and racked up 1.16 billion minutes of viewing for the week. That’s equivalent to about 10 million complete showings of the movie, which is part of Sony’s Spider-Man universe and was derided by both critics and audiences...

“Madame Web” was the No. 3 most-watched title of the May 13-19 viewing window, having made its Netflix debut on May 14 after a theatrical run earlier this year. The Dakota Johnson-led superhero flick was watched for 1.7 billion minutes in its first six days of streaming. That put it only 3,000 minutes behind “Grey’s Anatomy,” the week’s No. 2 title. The medical drama is a Nielsen heavyweight that’s begun charting even higher than normal after its addition to Hulu.

Unsurprisingly, “Bridgerton” was the winner of the week, during which the first four episodes of Season 3 were released. In the first four days of availability of Part 1, all seasons of “Bridgerton” were watched for 2.8 billion minutes. 70% of that total was accounted for by Season 3, while the other 30% came from viewers discovering or revisiting Seasons 1 and 2.

Also unsurprising were the fourth and fifth place titles: the always popular “Bluey” was watched for 1.1 bilion...

Red-headed actress and legendary country crooner Reba McEntire is at it again with another funny project for the whole family.

And this time, she's joined by a familiar face.

Believe it or not, a whole generation of adults grew up watching McEntire's classic series Reba and didn't even know she was a country singer.

Her roles and country queen persona are very similar, with the only difference being her singing.

In recent years, the southern songstress appeared in a leading role in the Big Sky series.

This fall, Reba returns with Melissa Peterman and up-and-coming actress Belissa Edwards. Here's everything we know so far about Happy's Place!

What is Happy's Place about?

Bobbi (Reba McEntire) inherits her father's restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had.

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Netflix’s live roast of NFL great Tom Brady made it into the Nielsen streaming rankings for its premiere, despite only being available for a few hours of that week. After its first full week on the streamer, it rocketed to the top of the charts.

The Roast of Tom Brady gathered 1.67 billion minutes of viewing for the week of May 6-12, leading all streaming titles by a wide margin (the second-place finisher, Grey’s Anatomy, had 1.11 billion minutes of watch time for the week). The roast also had by far the biggest weekly viewing tally ever for a Netflix special; the previous high was 798 million minutes for Chris Rock’s stand-up special Selective Outrage in March 2023.

The 1.67 billion minutes of viewing for the roast in the United States translates to about 27.87 million hours, or about two thirds of Netflix’s reported worldwide total (42.2 million hours) for the special that week.

Reba McEntire is going to have you quaking in your boots in her latest show, with the help of young co-star Belissa Escobedo. ‘Happy Place’ not only marks McEntire’s return to comedy, but her proper TV reunion with Melissa Peterman more than 17 years after they starred in the CW sitcom ‘Reba.’ The two have also starred in CMT’s “Working Class,” Freeform’s “Baby Daddy,” and Lifetime’s “The Hammer.”

‘Happy Place’ Trailer Shows Reba McEntire’s Character Unwilling To Accept Young Half-sister

Reba McEntire’s Bobbie thought that she was going to inherit her father’s bar when he passed away, but surprise, on the day the will is read, she discovers that she has a way younger half-sister Isabella, played by Belissa Escobedo.

When the introduction happens, the giddy Isabella is the first to accept the fact that she has another half-sister while Bobbie would gladly have...

Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman are officially back together in the first trailer for their upcoming NBC sitcom Happy’s Place, which was handed a series order earlier this month. The new sitcom reunites McEntire and Peterman more than 17 years after both starred together in Reba, which aired its final episode on The CW in 2007. In that show, McEntire starred as Reba Hart, a single mom whose husband leaves her for his dental hygienist, Barbra Jean, played by Peterman. Over the course of the series, Reba and Barbra grow close despite their differences. Created by Kevin Abbott, who served as an executive producer on Reba, Happy’s Place centers on Bobbie (McEntire), who inherits her father’s restaurant and learns she’ll have to co-manage it with the half-sister she never knew she had, Isabella (Belissa Escobedo). Peterman plays longtime bartender Gabby. The newly released trailer sees McEntire’s Bobbie learning about...

Melissa Peterman plans to “savor every moment” on the set of NBC’s Happy’s Place.

The network on Tuesday handed a series order to the multi-camera comedy that will reunite Peterman with Reba McEntire. The pair previously co-starred on the country music icon’s eponymous WB sitcom.

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NBC has given a series order to “Happy’s Place,” the Reba McEntire-led pilot the network ordered in January, and greenlit “Lopez vs. Lopez” for Season 3. The multi-cam comedy will debut during the 2024-2024 broadcast season.

“Happy’s Place” follows Bobbie (Reba 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 (Belissa Escobedo) she never knew she had. The cast also includes Melissa Peterman, Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk and Rex Linn. Universal Television is the studio.

With Kevin Abbott writing the series and executive producing alongside Michael Hanel, Mindy Schultheis, Julie Abbott and McEntire, “Happy’s Place” reunites the team who produced “Reba” for six seasons from 2001 to 2007. That comedy, which ran on the WB and later the CW, was executive produced by Hanel and Schultheis for its entire run, while Kevin Abbott joined after Season...

Reba McEntire is primed to headline a sitcom for the first time in more than a decade with a new NBC pilot, a project that reunites her with producers, writers, and at least one star of her 2000s WB series Reba. The pilot — which McEntire says is titled Happy’s Place — stars the singer as a tavern proprietor named Bobbie. “My dad was the owner, and I’ve been running it for the last ten years, and my dad dies,” she explains to Entertainment Tonight. “So I find out some information at the reading of his will that I’m not too happy with, so…” That information is that she has a half-sister, played by Belissa Escobedo (Blue Beetle), who’s joining the tavern team as her new business partner. Reba costar Melissa Peterman, meanwhile, will play Gabby, a clingy bartender who wishes she could be Bobbie’s sister, according to Deadline.

It’s season finale time for networks, but Netflix, naturally, still has plenty of brand new TV and shows coming in May.

Jeff Daniels makes his TV return in the David E. Kelley series “A Man in Full.” That six-episode series is based on the bestselling book of the same name by Tom Wolfe. Per a press release: “When Atlanta real estate mogul Charlie Croker faces sudden bankruptcy, political and business interests collide as Charlie defends his empire from those attempting to capitalize on his fall from grace.” The series will also star Tom Pelphrey, Diane Lane, Lucy Liu, William Jackson Harper, Aml Ameen, Sarah Jones, Jon Michael Hill and Chanté Adams.

Additionally, comedy fans can get excited for a new special series from John Mulaney. The comedian is hosting a multi-night event, “John Mulaney Presents: Everybody’s in LA,” that looks to be part interview show and part man-on-the-street hijinks.

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If you’ve been wondering why Melissa Peterman has been smiling all the time, just know that it’s because she’s set to reunite with her wonderful “Reba” co-star Reba McEntire on an upcoming NBC sitcom. But no, she won’t be playing the annoying half-sister.

In fact, the character Peterman is playing is one that wishes she actually is McEntire’s character Bobbie’s sister. Isn’t that quite the plotline?

Melissa Peterman Shares Her Joy To Reunite With Reba McEntire On Upcoming NBC Sitcom

Reba McEntire is coming back to our screens again, and she’s doing it with a familiar face.

Peterman recently took to Instagram to share the beautiful casting news, writing, “This is why I have been smiling All the time. I am thrilled to share the news that I get another chance to work with my friends. Buckle up @reba We are going to have some fun!

Fans think Katy Perry is using her new gig to hide her pregnancy. There have been rumors that she’s expecting a second child with her fiance Orlando Bloom.

She announced her new gig, which will take time from her judging responsibilities on American Idol. Keep on reading to learn more.

Katy Perry – Teases Pregnancy Rumors

In a new video, Katy Perry might have teased fans with the pregnancy rumors. It is possible that she caught wind of the talk about her future with her fiance.

She shared a new video on the official Peppa Pig Instagram account. Katy played the voice of one of the characters.

The video featured the pop star holding a stuffed Peppa Pig toy. She wore a light blue cheetah print one-shoulder dress. The singer slicked her black hair back in a bun. She wore a full face of makeup and headphones over her ears.

Reba McEntire is going to be spending a lot of time in front of the camera. In addition to her work as a judge on The Voice, she will also be starring in her brand-new situational comedy. This comedy, which will air on NBC, has not yet been given a title. The still-untitled comedy will have Reba McEntire joining forces with a former co-star from her past television show.

Past Situational Comedy Experience

Reba McEntire is no stranger to working on television. In addition to her many appearances as a host of country music award shows and specials, she has also worked on sitcoms. She has spent time on the sitcom Young Sheldon in the role of June.

The “Fancy” singer is probably best known for her leading role in the sitcom Reba. This television show aired from 2001 until 2007. She portrayed a single mother of three children living in a suburb of Houston,...

Melissa Peterman is set to reunite with Reba McEntire in a new NBC sitcom pilot.

Peterman, who played Barbra Jean on “Reba,” will star opposite her former costar in a new restaurant-set multicam comedy project, which will be executive produced by McEntire. She will also reunite with “Reba” EPs Mindy Schultheis, Michael Hanel, Kevin Abbott and Julie Abbott, all of whom serve as executive producers for the pilot.

The official logline for the pilot is as follows: “Reba 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.”

Peterman will play Gabby, who has worked as the tavern’s bartender for quite some time, and is described as “a bit needy and dramatic” with a strong desire to be sisters with Bobbie (McEntire).

Instead, Belissa Escobedo plays Isabella, Bobbie’s half-sister and an...