Reba’s 2001 Sitcom Is Back In The Top Ten
Reba McEntire’s coaching gig on NBC’s The Voice is likely driving more fans to watch her 2000s-era sitcom Reba, which is available to stream on Netflix.
Reba told the LA Times, “When we were coming back from Africa, we stopped in Atlanta, and people were coming up saying they’re loving watching it on Netflix.”
She added, “Friends of mine will tell me that their nieces and their kids are watching it now, so we’ve got two or three new generations watching, which just thrills me to pieces.”
Reba ran for six seasons on the WB and its successor, the CW.
According to the LA Times, the combination of platforms pushed the show into Nielsen’s top 10 streaming programs for the week of May 13-19, with 744 million minutes watched.
Starting in October, McEntire will be reunited with her co-star from Reba, Melissa Peterman, in a new NBC sitcom, Happy’s Place. On this show, she plays a woman who inherits a restaurant from her father and then learns she has to share it with a half-sister she never knew existed.
She noted of the role, “It’s those kind of twists that make people go, ‘Oh, my gosh, how’s she gonna survive this?”
Before she hosted the ACM Awards for the 17th time in May, the country icon walked the ACM Red Carpet and said with glee when her new NBC sitcom was mentioned: “Happy’s Place got picked up, and we’re so happy Barbara Jean’s (Melissa Peterman’s well-known character on the Reba sitcom) coming back, and her name is Gabby on the show. It’s very appropriate for Melissa Peterman. I love that it’s all the Harts and my sister.”
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McEntire was at the top of her game in country music when she booked her 1990 through 1991 tour. She had an opening act on that tour who she felt had the potential to be a big star. That act was Garth Brooks.
Reba told us what she saw in him in a recent interview promoting her new book, Not That Fancy: Simple Lessons on Living, Loving, Eating, and Dusting Off Your Boots. The country icon said, “He toured in 1990 and 1991 with me, and I saw the uniqueness. I saw the professionalism. I saw a kid from Oklahoma coming out and was bigger than life itself.”
Garth wrote the forward in Reba’s book, and she was blown away by what he said. She offered, “I was really flattered that he said, yes, he would do the forward, and then I was thankful, grateful, and humbled. It really moved me what he said about me in the book because I was with Garth at the beginng of his career.”
