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IT'S the news that Fawlty Towers fans around the world have always dreamed about. Now that dream is become a reality, as the hit John Cleese sitcom is returning to TV for a rebooted series. It was ...
Rick Hurst, famed for his portrayal of Deputy Cletus Hogg on "The Dukes of Hazzard," has died 'unexpectedly' at the age of 79 ...
As shamelessly recycled 50-year-old comic material goes, John Cleese and Connie Booth's stage replica of their classic TV comedy, Fawlty Towers, is still very good fun.
In 2023, it was announced that “Fawlty Towers” was being revived for TV at Castle Rock Entertainment, with Cleese and his daughter Camilla Cleese set to write and star.Cleese has since ...
Fawlty Towers is one of the greatest sitcoms in TV history, beloved by generations of viewers, even though John Cleese and Connie Booth only wrote 12 episodes over two seasons back in the 1970s.
He played Deputy Cletus Hogg for five seasons on the CBS show, a big hit on Friday nights, before leaving for an ABC version of 'Fawlty Towers' that didn't last long.
John Cleese has said his stage adaptation of Fawlty Towers has been successful because 50 years on from the show’s 1975 TV debut it is still “funnier than anything else that’s on these days”.
Fawlty Towers is marking its 49th anniversary as one of Britain's most cherished sitcoms. The iconic series, which first graced the screens on BBC Two from 1975 to 1979, was the brainchild of John ...
What is Faulty Towers The Dining Experience about? Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is inspired by one of the greatest TV sitcoms of all time: the wonderful Fawlty Towers.The series ran on the ...
Fawlty Towers' John Cleese talks to Radio Times about being Basil, the best place for farce, "hair-raising" TV recordings and the democracy of humour.