Quinta Brunson Reflects on the Business, Explains Why She Won’t Direct ‘Abbott Elementary’ Yet: ‘I Can’t Afford to Lose Me in the Room’

‘The Nanny’s Fran Drescher Says She Doesn’t See Herself Doing Another Sitcom & Why The Last One She Did “Wasn’t Enough For Me”

Fran Drescher is remembered fondly for portraying Fran Fine on the CBS sitcom The Nanny, and although she excelled in that format, don’t expect her to return to it anytime soon. In a new interview, Drescher was adamant about making a comeback to sitcoms after starring in one for six seasons. “I don’t see myself doing another sitcom,” she said in on Ted Danson’s Where Everybody Knows Your Name podcast. Drescher said that the “idea of going …

Quinta Brunson Reflects on the Business, Explains Why She Won’t Direct ‘Abbott Elementary’ Yet: ‘I Can’t Afford to Lose Me in the Room’

Quinta Brunson received the Variety Showrunner Award at SCAD TVfest on Feb. 6, joined by her “Abbott Elementary” co-star Sheryl Lee Ralph for an honest conversation about the highs and lows of the television industry. Variety moderated this conversation in partnership with SCAD TVfest. Brunson was introduced by Ralph, who praised her as someone truly rare in the business. “There are a lot of talented people in the industry — and she is talent…

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