John Cleese To Create Fawlty Towers Reboot With Real Life Daughter

[ECCOnoob]

20 hours ago, The_DADDY said:

Apparently it's more a sequel than a reboot 

 

In a GB News interview, John Cleese has revealed that his new Fawlty Towers sequel will be "very, very different" from the original; set in a bijou Caribbean hotel with a mix of nationalities; and won't be made for the BBC. https://bit.ly/3DOkupl

 

 

https://www.comedy.co.uk/tv/news/7185/fawlty-towers-sequel/

Blimey, if that article is even half-right, it really sounds like a bit of a desperate vanity project for Cleese and nepotism for his virtually unheard of daughter to boost her own comedy career.  

 

Is interesting that she is described like some well established actress and comedian but only seems to have been flitting around LA doing a small number of TV bit parts, modelling poses, low league comedy clubs and web shorts.  Now she is suddenly being put on a pedestal for lead role in a 'hit' major network sitcom.

 

So it's going to produced by an American actor and their American production company who I suspect will really struggle to write for British humour. Perhaps they are not intending to.  It'll be very interesting to see how watered down it is.  Whilst I am aware that Connie Booth herself was American, she at least had a very long career working on the British stage and in television. 

 

There has been multiple American remakes of Fawlty Towers (albeit without Cleese), some of which are still on YouTube and worth a look just to see the horror and hamminess.  Payne in particular is a prime example of how not to do it.

 

Also find it interesting that for Cleese's anti- BBC bravado, at present it looks like this remake is already destined for 'straight to video' on some streaming service. None of whom have actually signed it up yet.

 

I guess we shall wait and see. 

Edited February 14, 2023 by ECCOnoob

[XPertByExperien]

47 minutes ago, slh73 said:

'The other one' was David Jason, who's still very much alive and kicking. 

No I meant Ronnie Corbett, he passed away 2 or 3 years back.

 

 

[slh73]

He died in 2016,and he wasn't in open all hours, which is what the post you replied to was about

[fools]

you spend all your life entertaining people... and end up being referred to ambiguously as 'the other one'

 

int Google great

Edited February 14, 2023 by fools