"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,

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.