Happy’s place “And Rex lin “Finally they give Reba mcentire the chance of having a sitcom romance after numerous unsuccessful attempts for her OG Reba Series.
During the finals of the season on Friday, March 21st, Isabella (Belissa Escobendo) tries to create his half -sister, Bobby (MCNTire), with their colleague Emet (Lin). The only problem is that Bobby and Emmet are worried about ruining their friend for decades so that they pump vacations. Happy’s place end Hinting that Bobby and Emmet are in it for the long road, which is not what the executive producer Kevin Abbot Initially, he meant.
“I actually had a different place I would have spin with in the first season. This included this connection,” he was extremely annoyed US WeeklyS “But I couldn’t, because we like to follow them and then build them, so when we got there, it is a surprise. It seems obvious that the pieces were laid because we had 13 episodes and we were not told whether we would be lifted for more or not.”
Happy’s place in the end received an additional order of four episodes But the writers’ room decided not to rush the romance, with the Abbot added: “I didn’t have time to build where I wanted to build myself. But I wanted to start this connection, because the only thing I never had to do in the old Reba show were the links.”
Before you work with MCENTIR, 69, onwards Happy’s placeduet cooperate with Rebawhich continued from 2001 to 2007. Abbot uses what he did – and does not work Reba When reuniting with MCentire of NBC’s new hit sitcom for colleagues in tavern.

Reba Macentier and Christopher Rich in Sitcom “Reba”.
Danny Feld / © Fox Television / Courtsy Everett Collection“For some reason, Reba can do almost anything. A story we couldn’t tell in the original show was the links. There were love interests, but the chemistry never works,” he recalled. “We tried several different times and these were terrible episodes – from my point of view. They were always very difficult episodes for me because they just didn’t work well.”
Happy’s place There wasn’t this problem Because MCENTIR was paired With 68-year-old Lin, who was already her boyfriend in real life.
“She’s with Rex now and we thought,” If she’s ever going to work, it will work. ” This works for me. “So I am interested in following this song and seeing how it goes. It was the plan before we throw Rex – believe it or not. Because we were throwing it and it was always intended as a possible love interest, because I have some of these stories I want to tell. I couldn’t tell them in the old sitcom on Reba.”
Initially, MCENTIR and LINN occurred during the 1991 shoots. The gambler returns: the luck of drawingBut they did not pursue romance almost three decades later. After re -connecting, mcentire and linn have had fun with their participation In the same projects including Heaven And now Happy’s placeS

Rex Lynn like Emmett, Reba Macentier as Bobby.
Casey Durkin/NBCThe NBC series, which premiered in 2024, includes MCentire as a tavern owner who inherited his father’s business and opened a new professional partner in a half -sister who didn’t know there was. Meanwhile, Lynn plays a chef named Emmett, who falls in love with Bobby, who will be studied in the already ordered season 2.
Happy’s place also stars too Melissa Petermanwhere Reba Fans Remember from the original sitcomS But just because Happy’s place Connected Costars again does not make it a copy and place a version of Reba Series.
“I made the original Reba Show with Reba and she’s all you would hop her would be like a person – let alone as a performer. We did not tell all the stories we wanted to tell in the original Reba. It was a strange completion of this show. In fact, we were looking to restart the original show, ”he recalled the pilot who was not in the end. “I think we have done a pretty good job (doing something different with Happy’s place). “
He continued: “We didn’t want to do another family show with children because we did a lot of that. So we just wanted to do an adult show.
Happy’s place is renewed for season 2. Season 1 is now being passed on to Pair.