John Cleese’s Fawlty Towers The Play arrived in Southampton’s Mayflower this week. Bringing nostalgia, and the inevitable farce-driven chaos that always follows the legendary Basil as he deals with ...

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 ...

Actor John Cleese - who played the sarcastic, ill-tempered hotel owner in the Fawlty Towers sitcom - has said nobody noticed the "terrible, terrible joke" he wrote in reference to Wales in one of the ...

A titan of British television has passed away, and the remaining greats are paying their respects. While Sybil and Basil hardly had what anyone would describe as an affectionate marriage over the two ...

Sad news in the world of farcical hotel management: Prunella Scales, who played Sybil Fawlty on Fawlty Towers has passed away at the age of 93. In a statement, Scales’ co-star, and the co-author of ...