John Cleese has sworn off working with the BBC in the future. The 85-year-old comedy legend, who created the iconic sitcom Fawlty Towers for the broadcaster alongside his first wife and co-star Connie ...

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 ...

John Cleese is set to appear in Basingstoke next September.

Fawlty Towers star John Cleese has branded BBC comedy executives “stupid” and “clowns” after he was left frustrated by an ideas meeting with the broadcaster. The 85-year-old actor who starred as Basil ...

Monty Python alum John Cleese blasted the BBC in an interview this week, declaring he would not allow his new Faulty Towers followup to air on the network because they’ve become too politically ...

Cleese told GB News, the right-leaning British news channel, that Shin Fawlty Towers will take Basil Fawlty from his hotel in Torquay to the Caribbean to run a small bijou hotel with his long-lost ...

Actor, comedian and writer John Cleese, now 84 and long famed for his seminal comedic work on “Monty Python’s Flying Circus,” “Fawlty Towers,” “Life of Brian,” “A Fish Called Wanda” and many other ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of Cleese’s oldest ill-conceived, yet-to-be-produced reboot pitches is a proposed musical version of A Fish Called Wanda, the ...