It’s hard to know where the comic ends and Basil begins. Which is why a comeback for Fawlty Towers might not be just as good as the first time round, it might actually be better. Where are they now?

After Fawlty Towers finished, Cleese, who played bedraggled hotelier Basil Fawlty, went on to enjoy a successful film career.. Highlights include 1981’s Time Bandits, directed by fellow Monty ...

If 83-year old Cleese is now thinking that Fawlty Towers can be just about Basil and not about the vital interaction with the others, then he is suffering from the vanity of an old man with a ...

Basil Fawlty is back. A reboot of John Cleese‘s British comedy sensation Fawlty Towers is in the works and Rob Reiner‘s Castle Rock Entertainment is developing.. More than 40 years after the ...

With a Fawlty Towers reboot coming to our TV screens 48 years after it first aired on the BBC, I decided to watch one of the original series' 'iconic' episodes.I was not prepared for the 1970's ...

Despite only running for 12 episodes Fawlty Towers is generally considered one of the best comedy shows of all time. walesonline Load mobile navigation. ... John Cleese - Basil Fawlty.

John Cleese starred as Basil Fawlty in the original Fawlty Towers TV series. CREDIT: Joshua Sammer/Getty Images. Referring to where the show was set, Cleese said: “All the way from Torquay, via ...

The Fawlty Towers revival continues apace.. Not content with rebooting the TV series with Rob Reiner, John Cleese has now penned a stage adaptation of three episodes of the 40-year-old BBC series ...

Fawlty Towers: The Play ... Adam Jackson-Smith's Basil is as "astonishing an act of mimicry-cum-resurrection" as you'll ever see. Subscribe to The Week. Escape your echo chamber.

The classic sitcom, Fawlty Towers, never gets old – find out where the likes of cast members John Cleese, Connie Booth and Prunella Scales are now.