There are more happy times in Belissa Escobedo’s future.
NBC has handed a Back 5 order to Happy’s Place, starring the 26-year-old Latina actress and Reba McEntire.
By picking up five additional episodes of the multi-camera comedy, Happy’s Place will have an 18-episode total, which is 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.
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 (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 McEntiren.
Happy’s Place is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.
