Drescher has openly campaigned to get Cardi to play the role, in a reboot that would cast Drescher as her mother. But as she told comedian Michael Yo, that request has fallen on deaf ears.
“Truth be told, I’m not developing that as a television series right now,” Drescher admitted. “I’ve talked to her representation.”
Instead, Drescher said she’s collaborating with writer/producer Peter Marc Jacobson (her gay ex-husband) andCrazy Ex-Girlfriendcreator Rachel Bloom on “something that I thinkThe Nannyfans are going to be very excited about. SomethingNannyrelated.”
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Still, the Cardi premise lingers in Drescher’s mind.
“In my head, I always thought that for a television series it might be more fun rather than where are we 20 years later, to actually do the show with a whole new cast and get like aCardi Bto play the Nanny and get like an Obama type to play Mr. Sheffield. Maybe I could be Cardi B’s mother Sylvia, and just mix it up!” Drescher added.
Cardi was a perfect choice for Drescher to give the show the boost it needed.
The Nannypremiered on CBS in 1993 and ran for six seasons before its finale in 1999. The show followed Drescher as Fran Fine, a failed bridal shop worker turned makeup saleswoman from Flushing, Queens, who finds herself the nanny to British Broadway producer and millionaire Maxwell Sheffield’s three children.
Unfortunately, Drescher said at the time that there’s been little interest from networks about the potential for a new series.
“I’m totally down with doing [a revival],” she said. “I don’t know what is going on with some of these networks out there because they do not seem to be hip to the fact that there’s an obsession amongst millennials for the show and moi!”
source: people.com
