Reba McEntire To Make Lifetime Film with Boyfriend Rex Linn, Melissa Peterman

by Cindy Watts

7/1/2022

Reba McEntire likes working along with her folks.

Deadline revealed the Nation Music Corridor of Famer will star within the new Lifetime film “The Hammer” alongside her boyfriend Rex Linn and good friend and “Reba” present alum Melissa Peterman.

Reba may also function government producer on the present, impressed by the lifetime of touring circuit decide Kim Wanker.

The film follows Reba’s character, Kim Wheeler, the outspoken spitfire of an lawyer appointed decide of the fifth District of Nevada and one of many few touring judges left in America. Through the saga, the reigning decide dies underneath questionable circumstances, and Kim should cowl the rugged, middle-of-nowhere circuit between Las Vegas and Reno. She bangs her gavel with a no-nonsense model of justice, which earns her the nickname “The Hammer.” Because the present unfolds, Kim’s sister Kris, who operates a brothel, turns into a suspect.

Reba and Peterman grew to become buddies on the set of McEntire’s euphonious sitcom “Reba,” which ran from 2001 to 2007. The sequence follows the Hart household as they navigate life after divorce and mix households. Within the sequence, Peterman performs Reba’s husband’s mistress and eventual spouse. The ladies have a hysterical, adversarial relationship.

“The Hammer” isn’t the one alternative followers should catch Reba on tv within the coming months. In Might, it was introduced that she would be part of the ABC sequence “Huge Sky” in a daily function for its third season.

Selection studies that McEntire will play Sunny Brick, the unpredictable head of the Brick household, a profitable backcountry clothes shop with a secret historical past of lacking clients.

“Huge Sky” is predicated on books by C.J. Field that follows personal detective Cassie Dewell (Kylie Bunbury) and her former associate, Jenny Hoyt (Katheryn Winnick), as they examine native crimes.

“Huge Sky” is way from the Nation Music Corridor of Famer’s first foray into tv. Along with “Reba,” the “Fancy” singer lately appeared in a number of episodes of the hit CBS prequel sequence “Younger Sheldon.” She additionally made a reputation for herself in function movies, showing in “Tremors,” “The Little Rascals,” and “Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar.”