After Friends, whose comedians' meeting is long overdue due to the coronavirus epidemic, it's another iconic sitcom from the 90s that is preparing a surprise for its fans. "Une nanny de hell", or "The nanny" in its original version, is organizing its reunion on the Sony Pictures YouTube channel. The series was broadcast on M6 in France in the mid-1990s. The pitch of this cult program: an exuberant New York nanny played by actress Fran Drescher converts into a nanny in an upscale Manhattan family, before succumbing father, widower, Maxwell Sheffield, theater producer.
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Homecoming in videoconference
This series made the heyday of CBS in the United States and therefore of M6 in France: 146 episodes spread over 6 seasons which have been broadcast. The surprise announced by actress Fran Drescher is not a remake, nor the arrival of the series on a subscription streaming platform, but the reunion of the entire original cast.
And as the era is in containment, the entire cast will find themselves thanks to the magic of the Internet, reveals the magazine Variety . The actors will meet on the Zoom application, Monday, April 6, for a collective reading of the pilot of the series. The footage will be shown on the Sony Pictures YouTube channel. The objective: boost the morale of the isolated fans according to the actress.
The only thing missing from this virtual reunion is Grandmother Yetta, the grandmother of Fran Fine, played by Ann Morgan Guilbert, who died in 2016. The character was inspired by the actress' real grandmother.