"I feel like we're just the same people in a new play almost," Peterman said of playing McEntire's friend on 'Happy's Place'

Reba McEntire is back in the sitcom game with a new NBC series, and she’s starring alongside her “Reba” co-star Melissa Peterman. The pair takes on new characters who run a bar together in “ Happy’s Place ,” which premieres Friday, Oct. 18, at 8 p.m. ET on NBC.

More than 20 years after the debut of her hit series “Reba,” Reba McEntire has reunited with executive producers Kevin Abbott, Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis as well as co-star Melissa Peterman for a new multi-cam NBC sitcom “Happy’s Place.

Reba McEntire finds herself behind the bar in her latest return to network TV, making a series that’s a nicely calibrated cocktail of drama and comedy

I so desperately want to be happy that Reba McEntire is back on network TV. The country singer and actress anchored one of the most enjoyable sitcoms of the 2000s with "Reba," about a single mom who works too hard,

Reba's half-hour series "Happy's Place" premieres at 7 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, on NBC and co-stars Belissa Escobedo, Melissa Peterman and Rex Linn.

The show tells the story of Bobbie (played by Reba McEntire) who inherits her dad’s bar only to learn that she has a surprise business partner.