NBC's new comedy pilot reunites Reba McEntire with the team behind comedy series Reba

Reba McEntire reunites with Kevin Abbott, Michael Hanel and Mindy Schultheis, the executive producers of her hit comedy series Reba. The team reunites to create a new comedy pilot for NBC in association with Universal Television. In addition to the Reba team, Julie Abbott also produces.



In the as-yet-untitled project, Reba (McEntire, pictured) inherits her father's restaurant and is not happy to discover she has a new business partner in the form of the half-sister she never knew she had.

This is the first official pilot order for the 2024 pilot season, which was impacted by the dual WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes.

McEntire is already part of the NBC family and is looking forward to her second season on the hit competition series The Voice (US). She will join John Legend, Chance the Rapper and Dan + Shay as coaches in season 25, which kicks off Monday, February 26.

Last year, McEntire resumed her acting career with a leading role in the third season of the ABC series Big Sky. She played Sunny Barnes alongside her boyfriend Rex Linn, who starred as her husband Buck. The duo also worked together on Lifetime's Reba McEntire's The Hammer, inspired by the life of one of the last traveling judges in the U.S., Kim Wheeler. Her former Reba co-star Melissa Peterman also starred.

McEntire has often talked about reviving Reba, which ran for six seasons starting in 2001, but she has said it would be difficult to bring back the original cast. Actors include Christopher Rich, Steve Howey, JoAnna Garcia and Peterman.

While this new pilot isn't related to Reba, it sounds like it could be the next best thing.