Glad’s Place will introduce Reba McEntire‘s onscreen daughter in an upcoming episode of the brand new NBC sitcom.
Elizabeth Alderfer has been forged as Gracie, the daughter of McEntire’s character Bobbie on Glad’s Place. Based on TV Line, Alderfer, 38, will make her first look midway by way of season 1 and is described as a “no-nonsense, and considerably robust” character.
“Gracie is within the army and has been deployed abroad,” the official character description learn. “She has simply gone on depart and is returning house to Knoxville to shock her mom, solely to be stunned herself to find that she now has an aunt that she by no means knew she had.”
Glad’s Place, which premieres on Friday, October 18, follows Bobbie (McEntire) as she inherits her father’s restaurant and discovers a brand new enterprise companion within the long-lost half-sister (Belissa Escobedo) she didn’t know she had. Melissa Peterman performs a bartender on the restaurant whereas McEntire’s boyfriend, Rex Linn, additionally seems as tavern cook dinner Emmett.
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The sitcom reunites McEntire, 69, and Peterman, 53, greater than 17 years after their hit collection Reba ended its run on The WB. Along with McEntire and Peterman, the beloved present additionally starred Christopher Wealthy, JoAnna Garcia Swisher and Steve Howey, who has already been forged in a job within the Christmas episode of Glad’s Place.
“It’s lots of enjoyable. We completely need to carry a number of the previous forged members on — and in very completely different roles than what they performed on Reba,” Kevin Abbott, an government producer on Reba when it aired on The WB between 2001 and 2007, instructed TVLine earlier this month. “Steve’s our first one up, and we’re attempting to determine easy methods to carry JoAnna in. We solely need to have the previous forged in if we are able to actually make the most of them in a enjoyable, impactful means.”
In a latest cowl story, McEntire just lately spoke solely to Us Weekly about attending to work with Peterman once more. (The duo beforehand reunited on CMT’s Working Class, Freeform’s Child Daddy and Lifetime’s The Hammer.)
Reba McEntire proved she is greater than only a nation celebrity when she led her personal TV present — appropriately referred to as Reba. The sitcom ran for six seasons from October 2001 to February 2007. McEntire starred as a single mom elevating her three kids — performed by JoAnna Garcia Swisher, Scarlett Pomers and Mitch Holleman […]
“[Reuniting with Melissa] was like using a motorbike — there was a muscle reminiscence. However we haven’t been aside ever since 2006 when Reba ended,” she shared in an October cowl story. “There have been numerous occasions the place she was out on tour with me opening the present for me — popping out and doing a bit in the midst of my live performance. Followers like it.”
McEntire touched on the enduring influence Reba nonetheless has on viewers, to which she replied, “Individuals associated to it as a result of there are a lot of in that scenario throughout the US — teen being pregnant, transferring in with mother, difficult issues occurring. However primarily, it’s the guts of it. It was humorous, intelligent, mischievous, dorky, however it had lots of coronary heart.”
Glad’s Place premieres Friday, October 18, at 8 pm on NBC.
