The sitcom Fawlty Towers is being revived for television, it's been reported. And the new incarnation will once again star John Cleese.
This time, the veteran comic is returning to write and star in the programme alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese. The original show, written by Cleese and Connie Booth, ran on BBC2 for two series in 1975 and 1979.
It followed the unfortunate exploits of highly-strung Torquay hotelier Basil Fawlty, played by Cleese, and his wife Sybil, portrayed by Prunella Scales, as they tried to keep their hotel and marriage afloat. In 2019, the show was named the greatest British sitcom of all time by a panel of television experts for Radio Times magazine.
