Lead negotiators for SAG-AFTRA and the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers will head back to the table on Monday, Oct.2, after a bitter concurrent strike led by the Writers Guild of America was resolved on Tuesday.“SAG-AFTRA and the AMPTP will resume negotiations for a new TV/Theatrical contract on Monday, Oct.2.Several executives from AMPTP […]
Continue readingIt’s official: Hollywood’s actors are joining writers on the picket lines.On Thursday at midnight, the deal between Screen Actors Guild (SAG-AFTRA) officially went on strike, joining the Writers Guild of America (WGA), which has been on strike since May.This latest action marks the union’s first strike in 43 years, and the first time since 1960 […]
Continue readingSAG-AFTRA is officially on strike.The national board voted unanimously to approve a strike recommendation during its Thursday meeting, according to Variety.“Union members should withhold their labor until a fair contract can be achieved,” Duncan Crabtree-Ireland, national executive director and chief negotiator of SAG-AFTRA, told the room.“They have left us with no alternative.”The strike is set […]
Continue readingThe flashy girl from Flushing is getting the gang back together.E! News has learned The Nanny cast is reuniting for virtual table read of the classic sitcom’s pilot episode.”Laughter is the best medicine! So, in these challenging times, Petah and I thought, wouldn’t it be great if we pulled together the original cast of The […]
Continue readingNanny Fine, Maxwell Sheffield, and the rest of the gang are getting back together on April 6 — but not in the way you might think.“The Nanny” creator and star Fran Drescher teased on her Twitter page last week, in response to a fan who wanted to watch the popular ’90s sitcom online, that there […]
Continue readingFran Drescher is back where she belongs: On your TV screens.The co-creator and star of The Nanny hasn’t had a series regular role since 2011’s Happily Divorced, the TV Land sitcom she also co-created.Why join Indebted, her network TV return, now? “Don’t ask me that question! I ask myself that every day when I’m so tired.I […]
Continue readingThe flashy girl from Flushing once left Donald Trump a little flustered.Way back when, in 1993, the now-president nabbed a guest spot on Fran Drescher’s sitcom The Nanny, where he, naturally, played himself.Alas, being a rich friend of Charles Shaughnessy’s Mr.Sheffield didn’t necessarily please the 73-year-old. “I stood in this scene,” Drescher recalled on Late Night With Seth Meyers, “and I said to the two of them, […]
Continue readingFran Drescher wants to party with Cardi.The actress recently talked about a possible revival of The Nanny and mentioned that if the ’90s sitcom were to be rebooted, she’d want Cardi B to star.”Wouldn’t she be great as my daughter?” she said in an interview with People.Maybe I’m wrong, but Drescher might be onto something […]
Continue readingI didn’t discover The Nanny until years after it was off the air, but when I did, I was hooked.Fran Fine’s one-of-a-kind voice, extravagant fashion choices, super New York attitude, and high-pitched laugh were hilarious to me.I immediately became invested in all the characters, and I even had a photo of the cast as my […]
Continue readingGet your cup of coffee and favorite piece of cake ready, because a reboot of The Nanny might truly be in the works this time.Fran Drescher, who cocreated the sitcom with her ex-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, recently teased the possibility is actually more of a reality.”We’re talking about it.Peter and I are taking about it,” […]
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