It doesn't seem like it would be too tough to get other original cast members on board if they decided to go with Drescher's first idea. "Maybe even more people of color in the lead roles," Drescher said of an alternate reboot idea.
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"In that case, I think that I might be a fashion influencer and a women's rights activist or something."ĭrescher's alternate idea was getting a "whole different cast" to update the series. 'We've talked about it, and she actually had a really, really, I thought, genius idea,' Shaughnessy told Entertainment Tonight. Fran Drescher has a great idea for a reboot of ' The Nanny ,' according to costar Charles Shaughnessy. 'The Nanny' cast reunited in 2020 for a table read of the series pilot. "It's either me and Charles Shaughnessy reviving the characters that we originated," Drescher said when asked where Fran would be now. Shaughnessy described the idea as 'genius,' without divulging more. " I heard that and went, 'Oh, that'll work.'"ĭrescher previously spoke about the possibility of a "Nanny" reboot and revealed two potential ways to revive the series when speaking to Harper's Bazaar in April. Premiering on CBS in 1993 and running until 1999, The Nanny starred Fran Drescher as the incomparable Fran Fine. "I was very hesitant about anything," Shaughnessy told ET of Drescher's reboot idea, which he didn't reveal. The Nanny‘s showrunner explains how Cardi B could appear in a reboot of the classic sitcom. Shaughnessy played Broadway producer, Mawell Sheffield, who hires Fine to watch his children, and harbors feelings for her.
Charles Shaughnessy and Fran Drescher are seen with the cast of "The Nanny." CBS Photo Archive / Contributor / Getty Images