Reba McEntire is reportedly reuniting with her former costar. The Grand Ole Opry member is starring in a new NBC comedy, which will now include her former Reba castmate, Melissa Peterman, as well.
Per Deadline, Peterman and Blue Beetle star Belissa Escobedo will both appear in the still-untitled new comedy, which stars McEntire as a woman who inherits her father’s restaurant, and discovers her business partner is a half-sister she didn’t know existed. In addition to Peterman, the new show will also include three of the former executive producers on Reba.
Deadline previously reported that McEntire’s longtime boyfriend Rex Linn would also appear in the new show, along with Yellowstone’s Tokala Black Elk and Alaska Daily‘s Pablo Castelblanco .
McEntire and Peterman have been close friends since their time on Reba, an unexpected gift of the comedic sitcom.
“I don’t think in any other world we would’ve met,” Peterman previously told KTLA. “I met her on the show and we’ve been friends ever since.”
Although McEntire is undoubtedly thrilled to team up again with Peterman, who also stars on Young Sheldon, the country music superstar has been vocal about her desire for a Reba reboot, after the popular show unexpectedly went off the air in 2007.
“We’ve been really trying hard to do a reboot on the Reba show, ’cause I really want to work with the people that I got to work with during that six-and-a-half years,” McEntire said on The Bobby Bones Show. “It was fun, the cast, the crew, everybody we got to work with and play with, they were wonderful people, and we wanted to get back together, like a reunion, and have fun. So hopefully that will happen one day.”
Unfortunately, McEntire later revealed that, at least for right now, the reboot was not happening as she originally thought.
The 68-year-old is already a presence on NBC, thanks to her role as a coach on The Voice. Currently on her second season, McEntire is thrilled to be able to be on TV as something other than a singer or actress.
“It is a different part of me coming out because it’s non-scripted,” McEntire shared with Everything Nash and other outlets during a virtual media event. “It is. You just go have fun, which I like to do that … It just brought out my personality that a lot of people haven’t seen. If you see a concert, you’ll see a little bit of it. It’s just me being a me.”
McEntire also teamed up with Peterman and Linn for the Lifetime movie, The Hammer. The Voice airs on Monday and Tuesday nights at 8:00 PM ET on NBC.
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