“Fawlty Towers will never return,” John Cleese
London (ANI): John Cleese, has ruled out return of Fawlty Towers, insisting that the castmembers are too old and tired. The 69-year-old said everyone would be excited if we did but that the bar has moved so high that a remake would be good - not very good.
Cleese
gave
his
comments
as
he,
Prunella
Scales,
Connie
Booth
and
Andrew
Sachs
reunited
for
the
first
time
in
30
years
to
promote
a
documentary
for
TV
channel
GOLD,
reports
The
BBC.
Only
12
episodes
of
the
1970s
sitcom
about
a
grumpy
hotelier
were
ever
made.
Cleese, who wrote the tales of Basil Fawlty with ex-wife and co-star Booth, said he had to work for 43 weeks - "writing, performing and filming" - to make each of the two series.
Cleese said: "It took so much energy to do that show. I think everyone would be excited if we did it [a new series]. The problem is, when you do do something that is generally accepted as being very good, a horrible problem arises which is, how do you top it? The expectation of what you will do is so high."
Cleese and Booth - who played waitress Polly Sherman - had taken the decision jointly to stop at two series, he said. "We both felt we'd done our best and we just knew that, if we did it, it wouldn't be as good. It would be good but not very good," he explained.