Fans of Oklahoma native Reba McEntire now can mark their calendars for.

When they’ll get to see the Country Music Hall of Famer and Golden Globe-nominated actress back on television.

On the singing series “The Voice” and in her new sitcom “Happy’s Place.”

NBC announced this week several key premiere dates for its 2024-2025 season, which will launch in fall and feature the flame-haired entertainment icon in two big series.

Here’s what to know:

NBC will kick off its 2024-2025 season Premiere Week on Monday, Sept. 23, starting with the new season of “The Voice” airing from 7 to 9 p.m.

Reba will be back on the Emmy Award-winning series next season alongside fellow returning coach (and Sooner State transplant) Gwen Stefani.

And coaching newcomers Snoop Dogg and Michael Bublé.

The three-time Grammy Award winner is coming off her first “The Voice” win, after her Team Reba soul singer Asher HaVon emerged as the competition series’ Season 25 victor.

Reba, who joined “The Voice” coaching panel last year for its Season 24, will rotate off in spring 2025, as NBC recently announced that the Season 27 coaches will be Adam Levine, Kelsea Ballerini, John Legend and Bublé.

The Sept. 23 premiere of “The Voice” Season 26 immmediately will be followed by the Zachary Quinto drama “Brilliant Minds,” inspired by the life and work of famous author and physician Oliver Sacks.

The Tuesday premiere of “The Voice” is set for the next week, from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 1. It will be followed by the debut of the second-year drama series “The Irrational,” starring Jesse L. Martin, at 9 p.m. Oct. 1.

From there, “The Voice” will continue to air two episodes each week in its 26th season.

Fans can expect to see Reba on NBC at least three days a week starting in autumn, as her anticipated new comedy series “Happy’s Place” will debut Friday, Oct. 18 on NBC.

Reba confirmed in a spring interview with The Oklahoman that filming was completed in April for the pilot episode of “Happy’s Place,” which will co-star Belissa Escobedo, Melissa Peterman, Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk and Rex Linn.

The half-hour, multi-camera series is set to air at 7 p.m. Fridays on the network. It will lead off a new NBC comedy hour, followed by the Season 3 return of fan-favorite “Lopez vs. Lopez,” starring comedic actor George Lopez, at 7:30 p.m. Friday. The newsmagazine “Dateline NBC” will cap the evening from 8 to 10 p.m. Fridays.

All new episodes will stream next day on Peacock, along with the rest of NBC’s entertainment lineup.

With “Happy’s Place,” Reba is now in the restaurant business on TV as well as in real life.

The new show stars Reba as Bobbie, who inherits her father’s Tennessee bar, Happy’s Place, when he dies. Her character is less than thrilled when she learns she has a new business partner: the younger half-sister she never knew she had, played by “Blue Beetle” star Escobedo.

Peterman co-stars as Gabby, a longtime bartender at the tavern who wishes she was Bobbie’s sister, while Linn, Reba’s actor boyfriend and fellow Oklahoman, plays a taciturn cook named Emmett, according to Deadline.

Deadline also reports that “Yellowstone” actor Black Elk, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe and a direct descendant of the Lakota holy man Black Elk, has been cast as a kindly waiter with handyman skills named Takoda.

Castelblanco (“Alaska Daily”) plays Steve, the restaurant’s accountant who does his work at the bar and dislikes change.

Reba and Peterman became famously close friends when they co-starred in the still-beloved 2001-2007 TV series “Reba.”

But theirs isn’t the only “Reba” reunion happening on “Happy’s Place.” “Reba” executive producers Kevin Abbott, Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis are back together for the new project alongside a new addition to the creative team, Julie Abbott.

Kevin Abbott also is the new series’ writer, while Reba is listed among the executive producers.

“My crew, my producers and my showrunner, we’ve been working for a long time. Ever since 2006, when ‘Reba’ got canceled, we’ve been trying to find another story,” Reba told The Oklahoman in an one-on-one interview behind the scenes at April’s Western Heritage Awards in Oklahoma City.

“My showrunner Kevin Abbott, his wife, Julie, was the one that came up with this idea — and we ran with it. And NBC loved it enough to for us to do a pilot, and we hope to find out real soon if we get to run forward a little further with it.”

“Happy’s Place” is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group.

The “Reba” reunion on “Happy’s Place” comes as McEntire’s eponymous series, for which was she was nominated for a 2004 Golden Globe for best actress in a musical or comedy TV series, remains a popular title. All episodes of the six-season show are now streaming on Hulu, and the series debuted in spring on Netflix.

Reba told The Oklahoman she hopes to bring her real-life experience to the new TV show: She opened in early 2023 her eponymous home-state restaurant Reba’s Place in a 100-year-old building in downtown Atoka.

“I have a lot more knowledge about running a restaurant and a tavern than before, so, yeah, I think it’ll help,” said Reba, who grew up on an Atoka County ranch in nearby Chockie.

The country music superstar, whose “Reba” theme song “I’m a Survivor” remains a familiar and relatable anthem, said she hopes to incorporate her music into the new sitcom, too.

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Source: Tampa Bay Times