The roots of NBC’s Happy’s Place are planted in the past — roughly six years in the past, which is when Reba McEntire and Reba showrunner Kevin Abbott wanted to revive the WB classic. But not unlike Noah Wyle, who wanted to bring back ER before starring in The Pitt , McEntire & Co. were forced to pivot. Related Stories

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Abbott previously revealed to TVLine that there were plans to reboot the old sitcom, but we didn’t know just how far they got before they hit a snag — or what a hypothetical Season 7 would have looked like — until now.

“We had moved reasonably far on

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