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Netflix US is constant its licensing marketing campaign into 2024, with information from late final yr {that a} slew of Disney-owned exhibits are coming to the streaming service this yr. Among the introduced titles was Reba, a basic sitcom that aired all through the 2000s.
Created by Allison M. Gibson, the sitcom, led by Reba McEntire, spanned six seasons and a complete of 127 episodes. Although it has not been probably the most mentioned sitcom in recent times, that is primarily attributed to its being overshadowed by the huge Hulu library.
The story follows a household from Texas present process a interval of turmoil marked by affairs and undesirable pregnancies. Alongside McEntire, the present options Christopher Rich, Joanna García, Steve Howey, and Scarlett Pomers.
Based on our data, the present has by no means streamed on Netflix. That will quickly change. Seasons 1 by 6 of Reba are coming to Netflix in May 2024, with the anticipated arrival date set for May sixth.
If you’re pondering, “But wait, wasn’t Reba a show that aired on The WB (later renamed to The CW)?” you’d be appropriate. However, the title is coming to Netflix due to the present’s distributor and manufacturing firm, twentieth Century Fox Television. In the identical method that Warner Bros. owns Friends regardless of initially airing on NBC, it’s all the way down to Disney, who bought twentieth Century again in 2019, the place the present goes.
It is coming to Netflix as a part of a Disney deal introduced final December, which brings 14 exhibits from Disney and its varied subsidiaries to the streamer. Other sitcoms coming to Netflix embrace the beloved sequence starring Neil Patrick Harris, How I Met Your Mother, which returns to Netflix after seven years. We’ll additionally see different titles from the Disney library drop, together with Lost, Prison Break, and The Bernie Mac Show.
The well timed addition to Netflix comes as Reba McEntire has a new present arrange at NBC, which sees her reuniting with Reba govt producers Kevin Abbott, Michael Hanel, and Mindy Schultheis.
Will Reba be on Netflix internationally?
Now, it’s necessary to notice we solely have affirmation of a US launch for Reba thus far.
It’s our understanding that there aren’t any present plans to deliver Reba to Netflix outdoors the United States. All the introduced Disney titles coming to the streamer are particularly for the States, though we wouldn’t rule it out ever coming elsewhere. Reba was extra of a US hit again within the day, so demand is probably going quite a bit much less overseas (I have to confess I hadn’t heard of it till Netflix’s acquisition being a Brit!).
Want to see what else is coming to Netflix in May 2024? We’ve begun compiling all of the identified Netflix Originals on the way in which with extra tons extra to return.
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