[TV] Fawlty Towers reboot.

[raymondo]

It will disappear without trace. Like that appalling Porridge reboot.

What Porridge reboot?

 

[SeagullsoverLondon]

When we spot them, should we then stop them?

You were too quick with your edit,

 

[US Seagull]

Wait. Who asked for this? Because I certainly didn't ask for it.

 

[Lenny Rider]

Hopefully the result of a slow news day and a reporter putting two and two together and making 5.

John Cleese maybe knocking on, had an expensive divorce but he’s still got his faculties and knows what to do and not what to do.

 

[BadFish]

The original was the lampooning and pisstaking of a man at odds with the world around him.

Not sure where Cheese will find inspiration for such a character these days.

I wonder if this one will now focus on lampooning the world that the old man feels so at odds in.

I can't see it being any good.

Stewart Lee's line 'gradually decreasing the quality of your own obituary' springs to mind here.

 

[US Seagull]

Hopefully the result of a slow news day and a reporter putting two and two together and making 5.

John Cleese maybe knocking on, had an expensive divorce but he’s still got his faculties and knows what to do and not what to do.

I dunno. Sounds pretty developed to me if you read the story:

The new series will explore how Cleese’s over-the-top, cynical and misanthropic Basil Fawlty navigates the modern world. Plot details are largely being kept under wraps but the development 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.

The Cleeses have joined with Reiner’s Castle Rock on the development, with Reiner, Michele Reiner, Derrick Rossi and Matthew George exec producing.

John Cleese praised George’s “understanding of the ‘creative process'” and described their first meeting as “one of the best creative sessions I can remember.”

 

[mikeyjh]

When was the last comedy you enjoyed made? I find comments like these really odd because I still find plenty of good comedy to enjoy.

Although I will admit that the whole, taking the piss out of minorities and stereotypes thing never really did it for me.

These days, if you say you're English, you'll be attested and thrown in jail....

 

[herecomesaregular]

Always found Fawlty Towers cringeworthy but rarely funny, personally. Over rated!

 

[Binney on acid]

I'm still waiting for the sequel to 'One flew over the cuckoo's nest'.

 

[AmexRuislip]

Always found Fawlty Towers cringeworthy but rarely funny, personally. Over rated!

Well you won't like the reboot then!!

 

[herecomesaregular]

Well you won't like the reboot then!!

 

[The Clamp]

Article also says This Is Spinal Tap sequel is in the works.

Hmmm

 

[pure_white]

Dont mention the war

 

[studio150]

Paragraph 2 "... in news that will bring joy to a generation of British comedy fans...."

No it won't.

 

[SK1NT]

Please no... i want to preserve an absolute classic.

 

[Invicta]

Will be cringingly embarrassing

 

[Eric the meek]

Farty towels was perfection.

Any attempt to follow it will fail, probably terribly.

 

[dangull]

Hitting his car with twigs cos it won't work was funny to me in my youth.
I was always hoping for a happy resolution until the music credits happened at the end of each episode

 

[jcdenton08]

Hitting his car with twigs cos it won't work was funny to me in my youth.
I was always hoping for a happy resolution until the music credits happened at the end of each episode

Polly was my first childhood crush…

 

[Greg Bobkin]

He's all 'anti-woke' now, isn't he? It wouldn't surprise me if this was just an elaborate way of him - and people that share his views - to say "You can't say anything anymore" when it fails to get any traction.

Can't these people just leave things alone? Have a new idea FFS!