Fawlty Towers returning

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Fawlty Towers is being revived. More than 40 years after the sitcom first aired, a new series is set to begin filming next year. John Cleese will return as an older Basil Fawlty trying to run a boutique hotel with his daughter – played by Cleese’s own child Camilla..

Not sure this is a good idea.....but we'll see.
 

Furryanimal said:
Fawlty Towers is being revived.
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Thanks, I will be looking for it. Always really liked John Cleese.
Furryanimal said:
John Cleese will return as an older Basil Fawlty trying to run a boutique hotel with his daughter – played by Cleese’s own child Camilla..
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Maybe a new generation of Pythons?
 

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Alligatorob said:
Why do you think so?
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..because the character who made it funny.. the foils for John.. are all either dead or dying, and different ones wouldn't be acceptable to the public...

John's ex wife Connie Booth who played the waitress Polly wrote the original series.. is now in her 80's..

Prunella Scales who played Sybil Fawlty is in her late 80's and suffering from Dementia...long past her acting days..

Andrew Sachs who played Manuel the Spanish inept waiter is dead...

John Cleese himself as well is 83 years old, could we see him jumping around running upstrairs and down, being violent to new young waiters, or a surrogate Sybil being violent to him.. ?.. No..is the answer!
 
Pepper said:
I can hardly wait. I trust John Cleese to do what's best. He is brilliant.
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sadly he's not Brilliant unless he's supported by other Brilliant comic actors as he was in Monty Python, and in Fawlty Towers.. and also in real life he's not a nice man, so there won't be directors lining up to work with him
 
I will look forward to a revival of Fawlty Towers. British comedy is doubly funny to me as it's such a quirky spin on what is funny.
It seems more slapstick like the days of old, Laurel and Hardy stuff. Still, it will be nice to see what the producers come up with.
 
I went on a Coach Trip which had the Fawlty Towers Dinner included , I was expecting a scene played out on stage , While we sat and had dinner ,I had no idea what I was in for .
The Actors dressed as the Charators Walked around the Tables acting the part , I wondered why some diners were keeping straight faces , I soon found out when I laughed at a joke , they homed in on our Table and me , I was alone and others were in Couples , I was on the table with the Coach Driver and his wife ,
The Waiter who played Manuel was right behind my Chair so I couldnt see what he was doing, but everyone were having hysterics at his antics ..
The Food didnt get shared out Equally , this was done to cause a complaint, and food was being Snatched off Tables by John cleese Charactor .
The Dinner was just like in the Show ,, hap hazard and thrown together ..
 
Furryanimal said:
Fawlty Towers is being revived. More than 40 years after the sitcom first aired, a new series is set to begin filming next year. John Cleese will return as an older Basil Fawlty trying to run a boutique hotel with his daughter – played by Cleese’s own child Camilla..

Not sure this is a good idea.....but we'll see.
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I loved Fawlty Towers ! Never got enough. I feel optimistic!
 
Cleese has revealed how the remake will be set in a Carribean hotel and have a diverse cast inspired by The White Lotus, a U.S. TV show following the exploits of various dysfunctional employees and guests at an exclusive resort.

So what is the right response to a comic who many believe hasn’t been funny for at least 30 years trying to resurrect the best-loved sitcom in British TV history?

Even Cleese himself admitted four years ago that there was ‘not much point’ re-making Fawlty Towers as everyone would say it wasn’t as good as the original.

Cleese, now 83, will write and act in the new show alongside his daughter, Camilla Cleese, a 39-year-old Los Angeles stand-up comic. The pair will play a recently reunited father and daughter running a boutique hotel while Basil attempts to ‘navigate the modern world’.

It will be produced not by the BBC — which Cleese has said he could never work with again — but by Hollywood’s Castle Rock Entertainment.

The mockery has been intense, a reflection of how many enemies he’s made in recent years with his curmudgeonly and mean-spirited attacks on critics, ex-wives, Britain and the world in general.

For some, he has become Basil Fawlty — pompous, egotistical and permanently cross — only not nearly so funny.

As Radio 4’s Today presenter Nick Robinson said this week: ‘He’ll have to discover some humour, because he’s been very cross… the last few times we’ve talked to him on this programme.’

He wasn’t the only one who didn’t sound convinced. Spitting Image writer John O’Farrell said it ‘could be akin to a fat Elvis forgetting his words in Vegas’.

Controversial comedian Jimmy Carr suggested the remake, given Cleese’s age, should be set in a retirement home, and he claimed the former Python was only in it for the money. ‘I think they’ve got to write him a cheque beforehand and he’ll be fine,’ he said. ‘God love him, don’t mess with the man’s money.’

To impute such cynically materialistic motives to a comedy icon who has vowed to take on ‘cancel culture’ in comedy and joke about the unjokeable will strike some of Cleese’s diehard disciples as terribly unfair.

Cleese, however, has form here. His previous attempts to ‘reboot’ his back catalogue came when he needed money, leading him to once notoriously launch his ‘Alimony Tour’ after he was left with a huge bill in settlement with an ex-wife.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowb...-remake-wrong-reasons-writes-TOM-LEONARD.html
 
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