"I'll be singing the theme song. We've started working on it, and we'll have it soon finished," Reba McEntire tells PEOPLE of her new sitcom 'Happy's Place,' which landed a series order at NBC on May 7.

It's official: Reba McEntire is returning to scripted television. The country singer and star of Reba has teamed with a few old friends and one modern boyfriend for a show called Happy's Place on NBC. The new sitcom puts McEntire in a setting fans have not yet seen her conquer. McEntire started as Reba Hart in Reba on WB and CW from 2001 to 2007.

NBC has given the green light to a series order Reba McEntire‘s upcoming comedy Happy's Place, according to The Hollywood Reporter. In the series, McEntire portrays Bobbie, who inherits a restaurant after her father's passing,

NBC has handed out a series order to the multicamera comedy Happy’s Place, starring Reba McEntire. Happy’s Place sees McEntire play Bobbie, a woman who inherits her father’s restaurant and is less than thrilled to discover that she has a new business partner in the half-sister she never knew she had.

Reba McEntire is working on a new sitcom — and she’s thrilled that it will feature her boyfriend. NBC announced on Tuesday, May 7, that The Voice judge, 69, will star in a new series titled Happy’s Place.