“What happened and has happened a lot in TV, was the leadership changed at CBS, and when the new king comes in they want their shows.
#CHARLES SHAUGHNESSY AND FRAN DRESCHER MARRIED TV#
While “The Nanny” had six seasons and 146 episodes overall, which in comparison to many TV shows that have come and gone throughout history was a blessing, the show’s end didn’t come without some conflicts behind the scenes, albeit more from the executive suite at CBS. Although, he jokingly noted, “They’d have to call it ‘The Granny’ instead of ‘The Nanny.’”
We’re 30 years later and we’re older, and the characters have been married and had their own kids.”Įven though it’s been about 30 years since the show’s debut, Shaughnessy and Drescher, and many in the cast don’t look like they’ve aged at all, to which Shaughnessy appreciates us saying. It’s just about finding a story and a format that makes sense and that’s not going to be bad where the fans are going to want to tune in and want to see Max and Fran as they were. I don’t think it has anything to do with copyright or anything like that. I think she’s sort of trying to pull it together but there are a lot of moving parts and it might or might not come off. It is the one idea that I think could work. I just don’t see the story.” However, Shaughnessy explains, “Fran actually came up with an idea, and I can’t tell you the details because it does depend on a lot of stuff working out. It can run forever because it’s timeless and the comedy will stand up through the decades, but I couldn’t understand how it could be rebooted because it’s about this woman coming to a house with these kids and now we’re married, and we’ve had our own babies and she’s my wife. There are some shows that work as reruns and there are some that work as reboots.
“I’ve talked to Fran about it, and I remember we had a conversation where I said, ‘I just don’t see how you can reboot ’. “Well, it’s a very good question and it’s come up a number of times,” Shaughnessy tells us after we asked how things were progressing. So, go figure.”Īs for the reboot of “The Nanny” which Shaughnessy couldn’t speak too much about, he did say that while he personally couldn’t see how a potential reboot could work out he has faith in what Drescher has since cooked up. They actually thought that Danny was English and I was an American putting on a very bad English accent. I’m from London’ and they would not believe it. “I had people literally write a letter, a serious one, saying, ‘If you’re going to have an American accent, playing this English guy, at least have him take dialect lessons from the English actor that plays the butler!’ And, I was like, ‘No, no, no! Wait a minute. It’s not just people who weren’t born but their children too.” But none of us… no one had any idea it was going to have the kind of life that it’s had, and here we are two generations later. We knew it was successful… it ran for six years and did okay in reruns. I knew the pilot was really a great pilot, but it took a little while to find an audience, and then after the second year it started to pick up. It’s just a job like any other job, and you are very lucky to get it.” He notes, “We did ‘The Nanny’ and we knew it was a cute show. “It’s extraordinary and very gratifying,” Shaughnessy says about the longevity of the beloved sitcom. Initially not the best fit for the job considering she was just looking to sell cosmetics when the butler opened the door, Fran quickly became the key to developing a long-lasting bond between the Sheffields, their extended family in The Fines, and all the hilarity in between. Running for six seasons on CBS, “The Nanny” followed the life of widowed Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield (Shaughnessy) who hires Fran Fine (Drescher) to take care of his three children.
0 kommentar(er)
