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08-02-2023, 01:49 AM | #1 | |||
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https://news.sky.com/story/fawlty-to...ghter-12805666 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-64563839 [Comedy series Fawlty Towers is set to be revived after more than 40 years. John Cleese, who played Basil Fawlty, will be returning to write and star alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese. The two-series show, which featured on BBC2 in 1975 and 1979, followed the lives of Torquay hotelier Basil and his wife Sybil as they tried to keep their business and marriage afloat. The new series will explore how the dramatic and cynical Basil navigates the modern world. Castle Rock Entertainment announced on Tuesday it had closed a deal with Cleese to bring back the television series. The revival will also see Basil and a daughter he has just discovered is his, team up to run a boutique hotel. ] [In October 2022, the Monty Python actor confirmed he would be hosting his own GB News TV show.] Reported to start Later this Year. Possible Related Front Page as we need more Good Comedy. Last edited by arista; 08-02-2023 at 01:53 AM. |
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08-02-2023, 01:58 AM | #2 | |||
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This has the potential to be really good. Or it could be a mess. We'll see.
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08-02-2023, 02:38 AM | #3 | |||
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08-02-2023, 03:13 AM | #4 | |||
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I just think this is a terrible idea tbh.
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08-02-2023, 03:49 AM | #5 | |||
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They quit while they were ahead and only did 12 episodes back in the day ,so why must they bring it back....and I think it will fail aswell .
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08-02-2023, 04:53 AM | #6 | |||
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08-02-2023, 04:55 AM | #7 | |||
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I just think this is John Cleese's attempt at getting a dig in at the PC brigade (who he's been seemingly constantly warring with lately) and it'll just piss people off.
I hope I'm wrong because I love FT but I think we can all agree it's very "of it's time" and wouldn't work nowadays for a whole host of reasons. Last edited by LaLaLand; 08-02-2023 at 04:56 AM. |
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08-02-2023, 04:58 AM | #8 | |||
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Yes he needs to stay alive as a New GBnewsHD show is booked for later this year Also it is to get "Some" people pissed off Last edited by arista; 08-02-2023 at 05:01 AM. |
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08-02-2023, 05:52 AM | #9 | |||
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This Witch doesn't burn
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Sounds like car crash TV
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08-02-2023, 06:20 AM | #10 | |||
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it's obviously being done for money and will flop miserably
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08-02-2023, 07:35 AM | #11 | |||
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Camilla Cleese looks a lot like Connie Booth (her mother, his ex wife) who played Polly in Fawlty Towers. Or at least, she did in Cleese's movies Fish Called Wanda and Fierce Creatures. They were quite a while ago so she might not now but if she does, it'll need lampshading, if his character's daughter greatly resembles his hotel's chambermaid it'd carry unfortunate implications
But anyway, I know she's a stand-up comedienne, so hopefully she can "sanity check" her dad's jokes. I've not seen anything recent he's written? He was in, but didn't write, that show where the couple's middle-aged son moved back in with them. Yeah, I'm a fan of him and his work |
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08-02-2023, 09:41 AM | #12 | |||
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It wasn’t funny the first time? Why try again?
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08-02-2023, 11:25 AM | #13 | |||
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Many found it Funny A Few did not And this is not try again it is a new story Starring his Daughter Last edited by arista; 08-02-2023 at 11:29 AM. |
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08-02-2023, 01:55 PM | #14 | |||
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Also, it will be a Boutique Hotel
It can be Old Basil attacking his Woke Daughter Camilla Cleese is the Star of it Rob Reiner The Producer a daughter he has just discovered he had, https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv...al-1235319574/ |
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