'American Idol' alum Katharine McPhee in talks to star in 'Nanny'-style Netflix sitcom: report

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Katharine McPhee is putting a bow on 2019, a year she can certainly consider a gift of a lifetime.

The 35-year-old “American Idol” alum married her love, musician David Foster, 70, in a “gorgeous ceremony” at a church in London in June and has been a fixture as a performer in “Waitress” on Broadway, which she’ll helm through the show’s playbill that closes on Jan. 5.

Now, after dropping five albums in 12 years and appearing in a myriad of television roles, McPhee has reportedly inked a deal with Netflix that will see her star in a “sitcom-type series similar to ‘The Nanny,’ but she’ll be playing a Southern woman,” Us Weekly reported Tuesday.

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Katharine McPhee attends the 2019 Daytime Beauty Awards at The Taglyan Complex on September 20, 2019 in Los Angeles, Calif. (Photo by Tommaso Boddi/Getty Images)

The original “Nanny” series aired on CBS from 1993 to 1999 and starred Fran Drescher as the treasured Fran Fine, a fashion-forward woman from Queens, N.Y., who becomes a live-in nanny to a wealthy New York City family.

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An insider familiar with the deal told the magazine that the “Nanny”-style comedy will also likely include singing from McPhee, who met Foster on Season 5 of “Idol” in 2006 when she was a contestant and he was a mentor coach.

Foster proposed to his bride in July 2017 with a huge emerald diamond ring while the couple was on vacation in Italy. The pair dated for three years before tying the knot.

For her very special day, McPhee wore a custom-designed strapless gown by American designer Zac Posen. It featured layers of tulle, a sweetheart neckline and a matching veil.

In working on Broadway, McPhee said she’s developed an innate understanding of the history and philosophy associated with such roles.

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“I’ve always known that the Broadway culture is you work on Thanksgiving, you work on Christmas,” she recently told the outlet. “It’s a huge season for Broadway and I think it would be challenging if you were in a show for a year and you’re just exhausted and you wish you could have Thanksgiving off, but for me, I’m just so excited, so honored, to come into a show and close it and to be with the cast that I basically started with, made my Broadway debut and everyone seems to be excited this time of the year."

"I get to go out with a bang," she added.

A rep for McPhee did not immediately respond to Fox News' request for comment.