According to TVLine, country music legend Reba McEntire (The Little Rascals) will be reuniting with old friends from new NBC sitcom. McEntire will join executive producers Kevin Abbott (Last Man Standing), Michael Hanel (Why Women Kill), and Mindy Schultheis (Married Not Dead) from the Reba series in the new untitled comedy series. Abbott will also be a writer on the series. Julie Abbott (Winifred Meeks) will also take part in the series as an executive producer. The full cast for the series has yet to be announced
According to TVLine, this will be the first pilot that the network has ordered for broadcast since The Writers Guild of America and SAG-AFTRA strikes. The description for the series is as follows: “ McEntire stars as a woman who 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.”
McEntire is very known for her country music career but she has also set her mark on television. Starting in the self-titled series Reba on The WB and later on The CW the sitcom left a long-lasting impression on many. Running a span of six seasons from 2001 to 2007 the series revolved around the character of Reba Hart, who deals with her ex-husband, his new girlfriend, and her pregnant daughter, her two other children, as well as many other issues.
According to TVLine, McEntire also headlined the ABC comedy Malibu Country, and recently recurred on CBS’ Young Sheldon. She also joined the cast of ABC’s Big Sky for its third and final season and was even a couch on NBC’s The Voice. Last year she reunited with Reba co-star Melissa Peterman (Here Comes the Boom) for the lifetime film The Hammer.
McEntire is set to sing the national anthem at Super Bowl LVIII.