Arts & Entertainment
Fran Drescher dishes that there could be a ‘The Nanny’ revival in the works
Co-creator Peter Marc Jacobson would be on board
Fran Drescher (Screenshot via YouTube)
Fran Drescher spilled that there have been discussions for a possible “The Nanny” revival.
Drescher revealed to Entertainment Tonight that the sitcom, which celebrates its 25th anniversary this year, may be headed back to the small screen.
“We’re talking about it,” she says. “Peter [Marc Jacobson] and I are talking about it.”
Drescher and her ex-husband Marc Jacobson created the show, based loosely on her life growing up in Queens, New York, in 1993. It chronicled the adventures of Fran Fine as she became the nanny to British Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield’s three children. The sitcom would go on for six seasons before ending in 1999.
“The thing is our show would be the same characters 20 years later. We can’t just pick up where we left off. But in a way, that could be really good because the show can have a whole fresh bend to it,” Drescher says.
As for what her sitcom counterpart would be up to these days, Drescher believes she would be politically outspoken.
“That’s what I think Fran would be doing now — opening her big Queens mouth for the greater good,” Drescher says.
Celebrity News
Madonna announces release date for new album
‘Confessions II’ marks return to the dance floor
Pop icon Madonna on Wednesday announced that her 15th studio album will be released on July 3.
Titled “Confessions II,” the new album is a sequel to 2005’s “Confessions on a Dance Floor,” an Abba and disco-infused hit.
The new album reunites Madonna with producer Stuart Price, who also helmed the original “Confessions” album. It’s her first album of new material since 2019’s “Madame X.”
“We must dance, celebrate, and pray with our bodies,” Madonna said in a press release. “These are things that we’ve been doing for thousands of years — they really are spiritual practices. After all, the dance floor is a ritualistic space. It’s a place where you connect — with your wounds, with your fragility. To rave is an art. It’s about pushing your limits and connecting to a community of like-minded people,” continued the statement. “Sound, light, and vibration reshape our perceptions. Pulling us into a trance-like state. The repetition of the bass, we don’t just hear it but we feel it. Altering our consciousness and dissolving ego and time.”
Denali (@denalifoxx) of “RuPaul’s Drag Race” performed at Pitchers DC on April 9 for the Thirst Trap Thursday drag show. Other performers included Cake Pop!, Brooke N Hymen, Stacy Monique-Max and Silver Ware Sidora.
(Washington Blade photos by Michael Key)
Arts & Entertainment
In an act of artistic defiance, Baltimore Center Stage stays focused on DEI
‘Maybe it’s a triple-down’
By LESLIE GRAY STREETER | I’m always tickled when people complain about artists “going political.” The inherent nature of art, of creation and free expression, is political. This becomes obvious when entire governments try to threaten it out of existence, like in 2025, when the brand-new presidential administration demanded organizations halt so-called diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programming or risk federal funding.
Baltimore Center Stage’s response? A resounding and hearty “Nah.” A year later, they’re still doubling down on diversity.
“Maybe it’s a triple-down,” said Ken-Matt Martin, the theater’s producing director, chuckling.
The rest of this article can be found on the Baltimore Banner’s website.
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