Reba McEntire and Melissa Peterman are (virtually) again on our TV screens — and higher than ever.
NBC launched the primary trailer for his or her upcoming sequence, Pleased’s Place, on Wednesday, Could 15, which reunites McEntire, 69, and Peterman, 52, after they beforehand starred alongside one another on the hit sitcom Reba.
Created by Reba’s govt producer Kevin Abbott, Pleased’s Place follows Bobbie (McEntire) as she inherits her father’s restaurant and discovers a brand new enterprise associate within the half-sister (Belissa Escobedo) she didn’t know she had.
Peterman performs a bartender on the restaurant who’s “a bit needy and dramatic” and “would have cherished to be” Bobbie’s sister. McEntire’s boyfriend, Rex Linn, additionally seems within the trailer as tavern prepare dinner Emmett. The forged is rounded out with Tokala Black Elk and Pablo Castelblanco.
Pleased’s Place reunites McEntire and Peterman greater than 17 years after Reba ended its run on The CW. Reba, which aired from 2001 to 2007, adopted “a single mother who labored too laborious, who cherished her youngsters and by no means stopped” a.okay.a Reba. After her husband Brock (Christopher Wealthy) left her for his dental hygienist Barbra Jean (Peterman), Reba tried to begin recent whereas elevating her three youngsters — together with her pregnant teen daughter (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) and her boyfriend (Steve Howey). Reba and Barbra Jean fashioned a bond all through the seasons whereas in the end turned certainly one of our favourite TV friendships.
McEntire and Peterman beforehand reunited on CMT’s Working Class, Freeform’s Child Daddy and Lifetime’s The Hammer. Followers might need additionally seen that McEntire and Peterman have been each recurring forged members on CBS’ Younger Sheldon however by no means acted alongside one another. (Linn, 67, appeared on the Large Bang Idea spinoff as effectively.)
Earlier this month, Peterman teased her onscreen reunion with McEntire. “You’re fortunate in the event you get one probability to work with folks you’re keen on and have it’s acquired so effectively and nonetheless form of reside on,” she advised Leisure Tonight. “However I’ve had greater than that and I imply, I really feel just like the luckiest.”
Peterman continued: “It’s entire new characters, a complete new state of affairs and a number of our similar crew. The dynamic is gonna be that dynamic that we now have, that pure one.”
The actress acquired emotional whereas discussing her decades-long bond with McEntire.
“She’s like coming residence,” she added. “I feel that on this enterprise, we now have a number of ‘Hollywood pals’ — pals that you simply share simply the great things with. I feel I knew that once we began sharing real-life stuff, that it was ceaselessly. I do know she’s acquired my again whether or not we ever work collectively once more. She is on my aspect all the time, and she or he is aware of I’m on her’s.”
Pleased’s Place will air on NBC Fridays at 8 p.m. ET. No premiere date has been introduced but.