![]() "We've talked about it, and she actually had a really, really, I thought, genius idea," Charles shared. The 66-year-old actor spoke with Entertainment Tonight about the fan favorite show, which is now streaming on HBO Max, and revealed that Fran Drescher has some ideas on how to reboot the series. See what Drescher told ET about their virtual get-together in the video below.Charles Shaughnessy is spilling just a few The Nanny secrets. In the meantime, the cast of “The Nanny” reunited for a table read last year. “ I heard that and went, ‘Oh, that’ll work.'” “I was very hesitant about anything,” he confesses. I just thought, ‘This was very smart.’ That’s all I’ll say,” he teases with a laugh. “We’ve talked about it, and she actually had a really, really, I thought, genius idea. She’s working on adapting the show into a Broadway musical, while there’s also been talk about a TV reboot. “The Nanny” was cancelled the following year, but Drescher - who co-created the show with then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson - has hopes to bring it back. “So, I think we kind of we did it but were like, ‘Oh well.'” CBS via Getty Images - CBS via Getty Images When you’ve got a relationship built on this sexual tension, getting married is like the last thing you want to do,” he shares. The network definitely wanted us to get married, we knew that that was kind of a death knell. In 1998, viewers saw Fran and Max tie the knot - an episode that was a “blur” to him, Shaughnessy says - and as he claims, served as the “death knell” for the show’s longevity. “I mean, everyone you could imagine came through,” Shaughnessy notes. The show ran for six seasons from 1993 to 1999, featuring A-list guest stars such as Elizabeth Taylor, Elton John, Coolio and Billy Ray Cyrus. “We trusted each other, we enjoyed each other… and it took off like a rocket.” “I think we just knew how to play off each other,” Shaughnessy says of what made the show work. CBS via Getty Images - CBS via Getty Images Max hires her to be the nanny of his three kids - and the rest is history. “The Nanny” starred Drescher as Fran Fine, a Jewish fashionista from Flushing, Queens, who shows up at the doorstep of British Broadway producer Max Sheffield (Shaughnessy) trying to sell cosmetics. They were the little engine that could during their first season, “and then we went back the second year and it just sort of took off,” Shaughnessy says. Network politics had the cast and crew crossing their fingers, but after a solid three episodes, they received an order for three more. The writers tweaked the pilot to better fit Shaughnessy and Drescher, and the result was “the best pilot I had ever seen,” the actor recalls. “You could tell just then that the sort of differences between us worked.” But after his first time reading a scene with Fran Drescher, he knew “there was something going on.” “I was a little hesitant about doing a dad in a sitcom, like all the sitcom dads, you’re stuck for the rest of your life,” he explains. With eight years on the soap under his belt and a handful of other guest roles in shows and TV movies, Shaughnessy came across a script for “The Nanny” in the early ’90s. Hall/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images via Getty Images Hall/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images - Alice S. The fans went wild over the pair’s chemistry - but lightning would soon strike twice. Shaughnessy’s character, Shane, entered a romance with Pease’s character, Kimberly Brady, and turned them into a super couple. ![]() It was that chemistry thing, and it just worked.” “They were like, ‘Well, let’s try this guy.’… They wrote a scene for us, and it just happened. “They were trying to find a pair for her,” he says of Pease. It didn’t take long for his career to take off, as in his late 20s, he landed a role opposite Patsy Pease on “Days of Our Lives” in 1984. The son of a television writer and an actress, it was seemingly just a matter of time before Shaughnessy would enter the family business himself.
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