Reba McEntire juggles ‘The Voice’ and new comedy ‘Happy’s Place’

(NBC) — Monday and Tuesday are the final two nights of Blind Auditions on “The Voice.”

This week also marks the start of double duty for Reba McEntire, one of the show’s coaches.

McEntire is busy these days, holding court on “The Voice” and starting Friday, holding the fort on her new comedy, “Happy’s Place.”

“You have no idea how anxious we are, how excited we are,” said McEntire.

McEntire and her cast mates celebrated the impending premiere at a party late last week for NBC’s comedies.

“We’ve told everybody we know and people we don’t know that please tune in, because this is a show with lots of heart, lots of comedy, with great actors,” said McEntire.

“Happy’s Place” will be followed on Fridays by a new “Lopez vs. Lopez” season, where wedding plans stir real-life father-daughter emotions.

“I never see myself in a wedding dress, and my dad came out, and he was kind of, you know, he was getting teary-eyed, and that’s something, an emotion that I thought that I would feel when I got there,” said show star Mayan Lopez.

“Night Court” returns in November, welcoming Wendie Malick to the cast full-time.

“When you get to go to work every day and hang out with your friends and find ways to make people laugh, it’s a pretty sweet job,” said Malick.

Joining “Night Court” on Tuesdays is “St. Denis Medical” a comedy about an underfunded, understaffed hospital trying to stay afloat.

“The American health care system is really fun and ripe for comedy,” said show star Wendi McLendon-Covey.

The fall harvest of laughs starts on Friday.

“St. Denis Medical” and “Night Court” arrive in November, this Friday on NBC “Lopez vs. Lopez” and “Happy’s Place” premiere. And McEntire’s regular job with “The Voice” is on Monday at 8 p.m., on NBC4.

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