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  • Fawlty Towers star Prunella Scales dies, aged 93

    10/29/2025 12:50:54 PM PDT · by dfwgator · 40 replies
    Fawlty Towers actress Prunella Scales has died aged 93, her family have confirmed. Scales was best known for playing hotel manager Sybil Fawlty, the long-suffering and domineering wife of Basil - played by John Cleese - in the classic British sitcom. The actress died "peacefully at home in London yesterday", her sons Samuel and Joseph said. They added that she was watching Fawlty Towers the day before she died. Cleese paid tribute, describing Scales as "a really wonderful comic actress". He said: "Scene after scene she was absolutely perfect."
  • John Cleese Says ‘Fawlty Towers’ Reboot Won’t Be On The BBC & Won’t Be An “Anti-Woke Nightmare”

    02/18/2023 10:54:32 AM PST · by nickcarraway · 66 replies
    Deadline ^ | 2/9 | Jake Kanter
    John Cleese has said his surprise revival of Fawlty Towers won’t be returning to its original home on the BBC because the UK broadcaster would not give him sufficient editorial freedom. The 83-year-old British comedy icon said the revived series, which is in the works at Rob Reiner’s Castle Rock Entertainment, would find a new home as he writes scripts with his daughter Camilla Cleese. Asked if he wanted to work with the BBC, he said: “No, because you wouldn’t get the freedom.” He told GB News, the right-leaning British news channel, that the series will take the central character...