Almost 45 years after closing its doors with the conclusion of its second season, the classic British sitcom Fawlty Towers is set for a shock return to TV screens, with comedy legend John Cleese set to write and star in a revival alongside his daughter Camilla Cleese.
As per Deadline, the Cleeses are teaming with Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock Entertainment on the project, which will explore “how Cleese’s over-the-top, cynical and misanthropic Basil Fawlty navigates the modern world [and] will bring the story forward to explore Basil’s relationship with a daughter he has just discovered he had, as the pair tempt fate and team up to run a boutique hotel.”
“John Cleese is a comedy legend. Just the idea of working with him makes me laugh,” said Reiner, who himself is currently working on a sequel to his classic mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap.
Created by Cleese and his then-wife Connie Booth, Fawlty Towers ran for two series of six episodes apiece, and followed the misadventures of Basil Fawlty (Cleese), his wife Sybil (Prunella Scales), waitress and maid Polly (Booth), Spanish waiter Manuel (Andrew Sachs) and the guests of a Torquay guest house. It has since become widely regarded as one of the greatest British television shows of all-time, and so any revival certainly has a lot to live up to…
