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Hallmark Channel to premier ‘The Nanny’
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MUMBAI: Hallmark Channel is all set to premier The Nanny. The new series will air on 2 June at 4 pm. The repeat of the same will be on air at 9:45 pm. |
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The show first aired on November 1993 on CBS. The show stars Fran Drescher, who portrays the role as Fran Fine Sheffield and Charles Shaughnessy as Maxwell Sheffield. The show is about Fran Fine, a feisty, opinionated, no-nonsense New Yorker is between jobs and filling-in as a door-to-door cosmetics saleswoman. Opportunity knocks when she arrives at the home of the wealthy and oh-so-proper Broadway producer Maxwell Sheffield.  |
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Fran Fine soon finds herself with a new and unlikely career – – -Nanny to Sheffield’s three troublesome children. Street-smart Fran soon proves she’s a much needed, if somewhat unusual, addition to the Sheffield household. Sarcastic butler Niles, and Maxwell’s conniving business associate C.C. Babcock aren’t so sure and cast a wary eye toward Fran’s efforts to connect this disconnected family. Fran’s spirit and unconventional approach to childcare soon turn the mansion upside down…and give everyone a new angle on life. |
The Nanny is also known as Une Nounou d’Enfer in French and Die Nanny in German.
English Entertainment
Ellison takes his Paramount-Warner Bros case straight to theater owners
The Skydance chief goes to CinemaCon with promises and a skeptical crowd waiting
CALIFORNIA: David Ellison strode into a room packed with thousands of cinema owners and executives at CinemaCon in Las Vegas on Thursday and did something rather bold: he looked them in the eye and asked them to trust him.
The chief executive of Paramount Skydance vowed that his company would release a minimum of 30 films a year if regulators greenlight its proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery, a deal that has made theater owners deeply, and loudly, nervous.
“I wanted to look every single one of you in the eye and give you my word,” Ellison told the crowd. “Once we combine with Warner Bros, we are going to make a minimum of 30 films annually across both studios.”
It was a confident pitch. Whether it landed is another matter. Cinema operators have already called on regulators to block the deal, and scepticism in the room was hardly concealed.
Ellison pushed back by pointing to recent form. Paramount, born from the merger of Paramount Global and Skydance Media last August, plans to release 15 films this year, nearly double the eight it put out in 2025. Progress, he argued, was already underway.
He also threw theater owners a bone they have long been chasing: all films, he pledged, would run exclusively in cinemas for a minimum of 45 days, drawing applause from a crowd that has spent years fighting for exactly that commitment across the industry.
“People can speculate all they want,” Ellison said, “but I am standing here today telling you personally that you can count on our complete commitment. And we’ll show you we mean it.”
Fine words. The regulators, however, will have the last one.
