The Rise and MESSY Ending of The Nanny | The Hit KILLED By Its Creators’ Divorce.

In 1993, Fran Drescher and her husband Peter Marc Jacobson created The Nanny together. They were high school sweethearts from Queens who had married in 1978, and they named their production company after exactly that — Highschool Sweethearts. The show they built ran six seasons on CBS and made Drescher one of the most recognizable voices on television. Its entire engine was a woman chasing a marriage. They finally married Fran and Maxwell off in season five. The series ended on June 23rd, 1999 — and that same year, after 21 years, the marriage that created it was dissolved. Jacobson later came out as gay, and the company named after how they met wound down with the divorce. This is the rise, the messy ending, and the strange afterlife of The Nanny. We cover how the show got made, the real marriage behind the writers’ room, why CBS let it go, what happened to the cast, and where Fran Drescher ended up twenty years later. #thenanny #frandrescher #90stv #retrotv #sitcomhistory #franfine