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Timothy West on Prunella Scales’ dementia: I miss her companionship

Actor Timothy West has opened up about his wife, Prunella Scales, saying he misses her “companionship as my best friend” as she continues to live with dementia. The 88-year-old Gentleman Jack star has been married to Scales, best known for her role ...

26 Sept 2023 at 00:01

Features

Fawlty Towers - don’t mention the reboot!

A lot of what is considered to be classic comedy hasn’t aged well. And so the news that Fawlty Towers is being revived has led to much speculation about whether it can possibly be funny if it is not offensive, or whether it will remain offensive, ...

10 Feb 2023 at 16:33

John Cleese to make GB News debut with The Dinosaur Hour

Fawlty Towers star John Cleese is set to present his first show on GB News, kicking off at 9pm this Sunday. The comedy actor, 84, will present The Dinosaur Hour from 12th century Hedingham Castle in Essex where he will speak to a variety of ...

29 Oct 2023 at 02:45

Entertainment

I had to cut racial slurs from Fawlty Towers: The Play, says John Cleese

John Cleese has said “literal-minded” viewers cause a problem when creating comedy as he feels they “don’t understand metaphor, irony, and comic exaggeration”. The 84-year-old spoke at the media launch of his stage adaptation of Fawlty ...

02 May 2024 at 19:12

John Cleese adapts Fawlty Towers for West End stage debut

A stage adaptation of classic TV sitcom Fawlty Towers will premiere on London’s West End, almost 50 years after the first episode was recorded at the BBC. John Cleese, who co-wrote and starred in the original sitcom, has written a ...

02 Feb 2024 at 06:55

Entertainment

John Cleese: BBC comedy in parlous state because of committees and bureaucracy

John Cleese has said comedy at the BBC is in a “parlous state” because the corporation is “run like a bureaucracy” and is made up of “committees”. The Fawlty Towers creator, 83, who will revisit his most beloved comic creation ...

10 Oct 2023 at 10:30

Fawlty Towers set for revival with John Cleese and his daughter

Classic sitcom Fawlty Towers is to be revived with John Cleese returning to write and star alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese. The original show, written by Cleese and Connie Booth, ran on BBC2 for two series in 1975 and ...

07 Feb 2023 at 20:25

John Cleese says he would not make new BBC show as he announces GB News signing

John Cleese said he would tell the BBC “not on your nelly” if it asked him to make a new programme – as he announced he is joining GB News after being told it is a “free speech channel”. The actor and comedian, 82, created ...

10 Oct 2022 at 13:19

Entertainment

John Cleese says Fawlty Towers reboot will be ‘hugely different’

Fawlty Towers writer John Cleese has said the reboot will be “hugely different” from the original. The Monty Python star told GB News there will be a lot of “open-air” scenes which the original series “never got”. The ...

28 May 2023 at 19:15

Funniest sitcom moment revealed to celebrate Gold channel’s 30th birthday

Only Fools And Horses character Del Boy Trotter falling through a bar has been voted the funniest sitcom moment of all time by TV fans. The scene from the popular BBC comedy series sees Del Boy, played by Sir David ...

01 Nov 2022 at 07:18

John Cleese: Fawlty Towers play a success as it is ‘funnier than anything else’

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 85-year-old was ...

15 Apr 2025 at 13:07

50 years since Fawlty Towers was first aired on TV

It is 50 years since Fawlty Towers first appeared on our screens, with the farcical comedy series still enjoying a large and devoted fanbase. Audiences were introduced to John Cleese as rude hotel owner Basil ...

19 Sept 2025 at 02:45

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