The sitcom has also spawned several foreign adaptations, loosely inspired by the original scripts. The show earned a Rose d'Or, and one Emmy Award, out of a total of twelve nominations Drescher was twice nominated for a Golden Globe and an Emmy.
The show was created and produced by Drescher and her then-husband Peter Marc Jacobson, taking much of its inspiration from Drescher's personal life growing up in Queens, involving names and characteristics based on her relatives and friends.
The Nanny is an American television sitcom that originally aired on CBS from November 3, 1993, to June 23, 1999, starring Fran Drescher as Fran Fine, a fashionista from Flushing, Queens, New York, who becomes the nanny of three children from an Anglo-American upper-class family in New York. Highschool Sweethearts Productions (seasons 3–6, starting with 'Dope Diamond').