Say what you like about the vast and apparently unstoppable proliferation of streaming comedy over the last decade or so, but it’s been great for working out any number of fantasy comedic pairings. Just imagine: In the old days, we might possibly have gone our whole lives without finding out what it’d be like to see Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Cecil Strong face off in a battle of the arched eyebrows; now, Variety reports that we’ll be getting it soon, likely on Apple TV.
The former Saturday Night Live stars are both set to executive produce and star in The Nanny Squatter, which is being developed by If I Had Legs I’d Kick You writer and director Mary Bronstein. The series will center on a couple who bring a seemingly perfect nanny into their lives, “only to find boundaries blurred and control slipping as the arrangement spirals into a tense, unsettling power struggle.”
Although a quick perusal of the October 2025 New Yorker article the show is based on gives a strong suggestion that Strong will play the mom, and Louis-Dreyfus the invasive nanny—the former was in her 30s, and the latter 58 in real life—it speaks to both women’s comedic talents that we could easily imagine it going the other way. Either way, we’re just excited to see this particular combination play out: Both performers are capable of getting truly unhinged when a situation calls for it, and seeing them square off promises to be fascinating—even before how complicated and odd the actual case they’re drawing from turned out to be is factored in.
The Nanny Squatter is reportedly being considered for a pick-up at Apple TV, which previously played host to Strong’s musical comedy series Schmigadoon. Louis-Dreyfus, for her part, hasn’t had a regular TV gig since Veep finished back in 2019; she’s been working almost exclusively in film in the intervening years, presumably in order to allow Hollywood’s deeply endangered supply of Emmys to recover in her absence.
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