John Cleese has hit out at critics of the planned Fawlty Towers reboot - joking the negative reaction might deter director Rob Reiner from working with him. The Monty Python star – who played hotel ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ‘Fawlty Towers’ originally aired on the BBC back in the 1970s (Alamy Stock Photo) Yes, it’s finally happened. Fawlty Towers is ...

Classic sitcom Fawlty Towers is set to be rebooted by John Cleese and his daughter, Camilla Cleese. The Monty Python’s Flying Circus actor, who starred in the original series as irascible hotel owner ...

Monty Python co-founder John Cleese has announced he’s returning to Fawlty Towers, his beloved ’70s series that only ran for two six-episode series in 1975 and 1979 but is nonetheless considered to be ...

Anyway, Shin Fawlty Towers, as we like to call it for now ("shin" means "new" in Japanese), is set in the present, more than forty years after the end of the second and last season of the series on ...

Classic British sitcom “Fawlty Towers” has been adapted for the London West End stage by original series writer and star John Cleese. Cleese, who co-wrote the original 1975 TV series with Connie Booth ...

I cannot wait! But only if it's great! When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The plot line, according to Deadline, will revolve around ...

The series will follow no-nonsense hotelier Basil Fawlty as he connects with his adult daughter and "navigates the modern world." Emlyn Travis is a news writer at Entertainment Weekly. She has been ...

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”. The ...

I just found myself on Shaftesbury Avenue at the Apollo Theatre, in London's West End to get up close and personal with John Cleese. As in, I am in the second-to-front row, the stage is before me, and ...

JOHN Cleese is talking about the runaway success of Fawlty Towers - The Play, having had two sold out West End seasons and a 10 month UK tour which began in September 2025.

Yes, it’s finally happened. Fawlty Towers is getting a reboot. The fact that it’s been years since Cleese was a talked-about presence on the British TV circuit is of course not insignificant. A ...