Reba will be alongside Miranda Lambert and fellow Okies Blake Shelton and Vince Gill for the “Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert” Telethon on May 29th in Oklahoma City, OK at the Chesapeake Energy Arena. More guests will be announced later. Blake’s event raises money for the United Way of Central Oklahoma May Tornadoes Relief Fund. The funds will be used for recovery and rebuilding. The concert will be televised LIVE at 9PM/ET on NBC. It will also air on Style, G4, Bravo, E! and CMT either LIVE or on a delayed basis. We will let you know! Tickets for “Healing in the Heartland: Relief Benefit Concert,” will go on sale on Saturday, May 25th at 10am CT. Tickets are $25 with a limit of 8 per person. Tickets will be available through ticketmaster.com, by phone 800-745-3000 or at the Chesapeake Energy Arena box office. Please make sure to attend if you can or tune in to show your support on May 29th!

ABC‘s freshman comedy Malibu Country is facing 50-50 odds to return next season. But if the Reba McEntire-starring sitcom comes back for a second season, it will be with a different showrunner. Nastaran Dibai, who stepped in to run the show in November, following creator/executive producer Kevin Abbot’s stint in rehab, will not return next season. Dibai, who helped stabilize the show after the shakeup, has opted to depart. I hear she wanted to make significant changes to the comedy for Season 2, something ABC brass weren’t willing to commit too. There is speculation that Abbott, who has been very close with McEntire dating back to her WB sitcom Reba, which he ran, may rejoin the series if it makes it to a second season. While its Friday companion, Tim Allen’s Last Man Standing is all but assured a renewal, Malibu Country is heavily on the bubble, with its odds at about 50-50. A lot will depend on ABC’s two multi-camera pilots, with one, John Leguizamo’s King John, already garnering momentum as potential new companion for Last Man Standing. (ABC’s other multi-cam pilot, Divorce, is yet to be completed because of late recasting).

(Source: deadline.com)

Malibu Country Ratings: Episode 18 “All You Single Ladies” w/ Stacey Keach
(1.4) 18-49 Rating - up 27% from Last Week (1.1)
(7.04) Million Viewers - up (1.440) 26% from Last Week (5.60)
(5) 18-49 Overall Share - up from Last Week (4)

- Season Average: 1.39 (18-49) Key Demo; 6.34 Million Viewers
March 22, 2013
- Pilot Average: 2.3 (18-49) Key Demo; 9.13 Million Viewers
November 2, 2012
(The show has not been cancelled or renewed 
for a 2nd Season so far.)