NBC has handed a Back 5 order to Happy’s Place, picking up five additional episodes of the Reba McEntire multi-camera comedy for an 18-episode total, considered a full-season order by today’s network standards.
As a precursor to the episodic order, NBC recently picked up five extra scripts of Happy’s Place, a move used by the broadcast networks on shows they are bullish on.
At the same time, NBC also commissioned five additional scripts of Happy’s Place’s Friday companion, fellow sitcom Lopez vs.Lopez. There has been no Back episodic order for that show yet.
Likely boosted by McEntire’s coach role on The Voice, Happy’s Place has been a Friday breakout. Its premiere, which improved the 8PM timeslot by +90% in total viewers and +88% in adults 18-49, logged a solid 4M linear Live+Same Day viewers that has grown to 14M cross-platform viewers. The series, which reunites several key creative auspices of McEntire’s previous sitcom, Reba, also registered the best new comedy launch on Peacock ever.
In Happy’s Place, McEntire’s Bobbie inherits her father’s tavern, named Happy’s Place, and is surprised to discover that she has a new business partner, Isabella (Belissa Escobedo), a twentysomething half-sister she never knew she had.
Created by Kevin Abbott and Julie Abbott, the series also stars Reba‘s Melissa Peterman as well as Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk and Rex Linn. Kevin Abbott executive produces with McEntire; Michael Hanel; Mindy Schultheis; Matt Berry and Pamela Fryman. Happy’s Place is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
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