Reba McEntires New Sitcom Sounds Like A Replacement For Ashton Kutchers 8-Year-Old Western ShowReba McEntires New Sitcom Sounds Like A Replacement For Ashton Kutchers 8-Year-Old Western Show

Reba McEntire’s new sitcom Happy’s Place shares a similar premise with Ashton Kutcher’s Western sitcom that premiered in 2016. Happy’s Place centers on McEntire’s character, Bobbie, who inherits the titular local restaurant from her late father. However, as seen in the Happy’s Place trailer, Bobbie soon discovers that she’ll be co-running the family business with Isabella (Belissa Escobedo), the half-sister she never knew she had.

Happy’s Place will be written by Kevin Abbott, who will also serve as executive producer alongside Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis, all of whom previously worked on McEntire’s beloved 2000s sitcom, Reba. McEntire played the titular matriarch of the central Hart family on Reba, which ran for six seasons from 2001-2007. With a shared focus on family and much of the same team behind it, Happy’s Place will be the perfect replacement show for Reba, but it also has a lot in common with a much more recent Netflix sitcom starring Ashton Kutcher that ended four years ago.

Reba McEntire’s Happy’s Place Setup Sounds Similar To Netflix’s The Ranch

The Ranch Also Centered On A Family Business In A Small Rural Town

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The Ranch is a sitcom that ran for four seasons between 2016 and 2020. The Comedy and Drama series was created by Don Reo and Jim Patterson for Netflix and starred Ashton Kutcher, Danny Masterson, Sam Elliot, and Debra Winger. The premise revolved around a Rancher and his two sons who owned a Ranch in Colorado and all of the drama that unfolded within their family.

Release Date

April 1, 2016

Based on their similar premises, Happy’s Place has the potential to be a great replacement for the Netflix Western sitcom The Ranch. Set in the fictional small town of Garrison, Colorado, The Ranch followed That ’70s Show stars Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson as Colt and Rooster Bennett, two brothers who help run the titular cattle ranch owned by their father Beau (Sam Elliott). The Ranch also starred Debra Winger as Maggie Bennett, Beau’s ex-wife and Colt and Rooster’s mother, who owns the local bar.

Like The Ranch,Happy’s Place also follows two siblings running the family business in a small rural town. There are some key differences, of course, like the fact that Colt and Rooster grew up together and share the same mother and father, both of whom are still alive. Still, Happy’s Place and The Ranch share similar central settings and both feature prior sitcom stars. So far, Happy’s Place is shaping up to be a solid replacement for fans of The Ranch.

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Happy’s Place Already Stars Multiple Reba Cast Members

Throughout its four-season run, The Ranch featured several of Kutcher and Masterson’s That ’70s Show co-stars. In seasons 1-2 of The Ranch, Wilmer Valderrama, who played Fez on That ’70s Show, guest-starred as Umberto, a former Iron River ranch hand. Debra Jo Rupp and Kurtwood Smith, who played Kitty and Red Forman on That ’70s Show, also guest–starred in seasons 2-4 of The Ranch. Rupp played Janice Phillips, the mother of Colt’s love interest Abby (Elisha Cuthbert), while Smith played the Bennetts’ neighbor, Sam Peterson.

Happy’s Place is already following in The Ranch‘s footsteps by casting one of its lead’s former sitcom co-stars. Happy’s Place reunites Reba McEntire with Melissa Peterman, who played Barbra Jean on all six seasons of Reba. Peterman’s casting as Gabby, a longtime bartender at the titular restaurant, in Happy’s Place sets up the possibility for more of the Reba cast to appear in Happy’s Place. In fact, Happy’s Place could finally reunite Reba McEntire with Joanna Garcia Swisher, who has expressed interest in working with her former TV mother again after playing Reba’s daughter Cheyenne on Reba.