NBC has ordered three extra scripts each of its Friday comedies Happy’s Place and Lopez vs. Lopez. As Deadline reported today, both multi-camera sitcoms had originally been picked up for 13 episodes.
Broadcast networks often commission additional scripts of shows they are considering for back episodic orders as a way to keep the writers rooms working. Based on Happy’s Place and George vs. Lopez‘s ratings performance in the coming weeks, they may receive a pickup for more scripts and/or start converting script into episodic orders.
Happy’s Place has been a Friday breakout, logging a solid 4M linear Live+Same Day viewers that grew to 10M cross-platform viewers within a week. The series, which reunites several key creative auspices of McEntire’s previous sitcom, Reba, also logged the best new comedy launch on Peacock ever.
In Happy’s Place, McEntire’s Bobbie inherits her father’s tavern, named Happy’s Place, and is surprised to discover that she has a new business partner, Isabella (Belissa Escobedo), a twentysomething half-sister she never knew she had.
Created by Kevin Abbott and Julie Abbott, the series also stars Reba’s Melissa Peterman as well as Pablo Castelblanco, Tokala Black Elk and Rex Linn. Abbott executive produces with Reba McEntire, Michael Hanel, Mindy Schultheis, Matt Berry and Pamela Fryman.
George Lopez and Mayan Lopez co-created the father-daughter comedy Lopez vs. Lopez, in which they star alongside Selenis Leyva, Matt Shively, Brice Gonzalez and Al Madrigal. The series’ third co-creator, Debby Wolfe exec produces alongside Bruce Helford, George Lopez, Michael Rotenberg and Katie Newman. A utility player, the sitcom has been chugging along, producing 22 episodes in Season 1 and 10 in the strike-abbreviated second season.
