Fran Drescher Reveals When the ‘Timing Will Be Right’ to ‘Revisit’ a ‘Nanny’ Revival — Would Fran and Maxwell Still Be Together?
usmagazine.comFran Drescher is still open to a possible revival for The Nanny — it’s just on the back-burner for now. Instead, she’s focusing on a Broadway musical based on the beloved sitcom with the help of show creator Peter Marc Jacobson and Rachel Bloom.“It’s all coming together in a really healthy way.
Once that baby has legs and it’s up on its feet, then we may re-explore doing the Nanny reboot. Right now it’s really found a very happy, comfortable place on HBO Max,” Drescher, 64, exclusively told Us Weekly. “How I looked on that show would be how I would want The Nanny to look if we ever did a reboot.
We’re actually going out with a different show for me right now. And we’ll see. If that doesn’t sell then maybe the timing will be right to revisit bringing The Nanny back on TV.”She added: “Either with the original cast or with a whole new cast and bring it into the moment and just redo it in a more contemporary way that’s no longer in the ’90s but in the 2020s.
There’s a lot of possibility where that’s concerned.”The Nanny originally ran for six seasons on CBS from 1993 to 1999 and followed Fran Fine (Drescher), a Queens native who nannies three children and eventually falls in love with their Broadway producer dad Maxwell Sheffield, played by Charles Shaughnessy.
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