Dadi (2001–2002)

This is airing as I speak on our national "ethnic" broadcaster, SBS (which helpfully provides English subtitles), and very peculiar it is too. Basically, the show looks and plays like "The Nanny" - near-identical sets, same multi-camera set-up & camera positions, a cast that bears a general resemblance to the original actors, scripts that are one-to-one adaptations of the original scripts (the show is licensed, not a knockoff) - but it is decidedly NOT "The Nanny": no more Yiddish jokes/Jewish references; no more jokes about Broadway shows; no snotty English butler; no live audience (and boy, does it show), just canned laughter. Gülben Ergen is talented enough in her own way, but she's no Fran Drescher, and a show like this really revolves around its Nanny, so you do miss her presence.