The cast of The Nanny reunited this month for a table read of the very first episode. "I could not have been more blessed with a talented and lovely leading man like Charles Shaughnessy and to this day I absolutely love and adore him and he's just heaven and we're still hoping that some day we'll get to work together again," she said. The actress gushed about Shaughnessy and said they have plans to work together again one day. She did say that if a modern reboot happened, she'd be interested in seeing Cardi B and "an Obama-type" playing Fran and Maxwell. But eventually it may come back and then we'll figure out in what way." Daniel Davis and Lauren Lane as Niles the butler and C.C. "But I don't think it really matters because we're not right now in a position to realistically discuss it.
"We shouldn't have married them off is what the general consensus was," she said. and Niles romance, Drescher says it was "unrealistic".
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"We're not really in the place to start wondering about that and then I'm committed to Indebted, the series that I'm doing right now, and I couldn't possibly go back to doing a reboot until my commitment to this expires."Īs for the C.C.
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(Getty)īut while she would love to revisit a television reboot or reunion, Drescher told Tweedie it can't happen right now due to the fact they're already working on a Broadway musical for The Nanny and also due to her commitment to her current TV show, Indebted. The cast left to right: Lauren Lane, Nicholle Tom, Benjamin Salisbury, Charles Shaughnessy, Madeline Zima, Fran Drescher and Daniel Davis. So they married, and the series ended the next season due to low ratings. According to the actress, the network gave Drescher and Marc Jacobson an ultimatum: Give us a wedding or we'll cancel the show.
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"You know Peter said to me the other day 'I think I figured out how to do again and it was actually one of your ideas that I didn't like at first but now I do.' And I said 'What? We forget about the whole last season?'," Drescher told Tweedie.ĭrescher has previously revealed that marrying Fran Fine and Maxwell Sheffield led to the demise of the sitcom, explaining that fans always tune out when their favourite characters get together. READ MORE: What the cast of The Nanny look like now Daniel Davis (Niles) Image: CBS/Getty.Īfter playing beloved British butler, Daniel Davis (who isn't actually British) has gone on to guest star in several TV shows including Frasier, Ugly Betty, Gotham and Elementary in 2019.Īnd just like his on-screen partner, Davis, 74, has also pursued theatre, appearing in Talking Heads, The Frogs, La Cage Aux Folles and Wrong Mountain, for which he earned a Tony Award nomination.Charles Shaughnessy and Fran Drescher as Maxwell Sheffield and Fran Fine in The Nanny. Outside of the theatre, Lane has one daughter, Kate, with ex-husband David Wilkins, who she divorced in 2009 after 11 years of marriage. The now 59-year-old currently works as the head of acting for the department of theatre and dance at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas and has taken part in several productions at the Zachary Scott Theatre Centre in Austin. In on stage in productions of August: Osage County, God of Carnage and Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. After The Nanny ended, Lane mostly stepped away from Hollywood and instead focused on theatre. She's since appeared in The Nanny Reunion: A Nosh to Remember and In August 1997, coinciding with her time on The Nanny, she also appeared on 'The Daily Show.' Since 2000, Lane has performed at Zachary Scott Theatre in Austin, Texas. Babcock, Maxwells business associate and the series antagonist. Babcock, Maxwell's business associate who had feelings for him before falling for Niles. Lauren Lane continues to be best known for her role as C.
"I’m in a relationship with myself - and it’s going quite well," she told People earlier this year. Outside of acting, Drescher is happily single after her divorce from her first husband Peter Marc Jacobson in 1999, who later came out as gay, and her second husband Shiva Ayyadurai in 2016. More recently, you may have heard her signature voice in 2018's Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation and seen her star in NBC's new sitcom Indebted earlier this year. In 2014, Drescher made her Broadway debut in Cinderella where she played the evil stepmother, opposite Carly Rae Jepsen. After the show wrapped up in 1999, the now 62-year-old actress went on to star in sitcoms Living With Fran and Happily Divorced and Fran Drescher (Fran Fine) Image: CBS/Instagram was the flashy gal from Flushing, who became the nanny named Fran.Īnd now, 27 years later, Fran Drescher has continued to live her life in the spotlight. So in honour of the show’s brief reunion, we decided to take a look at what the cast of The Nanny have been up to since.