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View eagleman13's Profile eagleman13 Flag On The Road To Hell & Alicante 10 Feb 23 5.44pm Send a Private Message to eagleman13 Holmesdale Online Elite Member Add eagleman13 as a friend

Originally posted by kingdowieonthewall

Maybe im mistaken, but i got the impression it was going to be Basil Fawlty running establishment elsewhere.
falling foul of todays woke bollo?

According to the bbc, they will NOT be showing it & it is based 'abroad'.

Badger . . . 'Still Open All Hours'?

 


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View PalazioVecchio's Profile PalazioVecchio Flag south pole 10 Feb 23 7.15pm Send a Private Message to PalazioVecchio Add PalazioVecchio as a friend

Originally posted by eagleman13

According to the bbc, they will NOT be showing it & it is based 'abroad'.

Badger . . . 'Still Open All Hours'?

it will defo be good if the LibLeft lunatics of the BBC have rejected it.

maybe Gary Linekar will picket outside a cinema ?

 


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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 10 Feb 23 7.29pm Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by eagleman13

According to the bbc, they will NOT be showing it & it is based 'abroad'.

Badger . . . 'Still Open All Hours'?

Personal choice of course but I preferred the original, didn't think much of the remake.

 


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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

it will defo be good if the LibLeft lunatics of the BBC have rejected it.

maybe Gary Linekar will picket outside a cinema ?

The whole story is that Basil Fawlty runs Gary Lineker's asylum seekers Airbnb but I don't want to give too much away.

 


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View YT's Profile YT Flag Oxford 10 Feb 23 7.57pm Send a Private Message to YT Add YT as a friend

Good on yer, John

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Originally posted by Badger11

I have been trying to think of successful comedy re-boot which was at least as good as the original.

The only one that comes to mind is Whatever happened to the likely Lads which I think was better than The likely Lads.

Any others?

Yes. Mind you I think all but one of the originals was wiped so hard to judge, but the re-boot was excellent.

 

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Originally posted by PalazioVecchio

didn't the three survivors in The Beatles release a crap single in the mid 1990s ?

its a bad idea to revise perfection.

The Fab 4 did make the grave error of handing production to Jeff Lynn.

 

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it's a vehicle for his daughter. No-ones even heard of her until she's lined-up to co-star in this.
Fawlty Towers is at the pinnacle of comedy, there's only one way this can go.

 


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Originally posted by Badger11

I have been trying to think of successful comedy re-boot which was at least as good as the original.

The only one that comes to mind is Whatever happened to the likely Lads which I think was better than The likely Lads.

Any others?

Certainly NOT the remake of 'The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin' !!

 


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View Dubai Eagle's Profile Dubai Eagle Flag 15 Feb 23 6.20am Send a Private Message to Dubai Eagle Add Dubai Eagle as a friend

You would think that someone with the work history, talents & lifetime in the film industry connections of someone like John Cleese there would be a better way to go, Fawlty Towers was a classic in its time but a lot of the endearing comedy revolved around a cross between a kind of slapstick & stereotypical characters which JC carried with a wonderful energy which befitted the time, I feel that trying to reboot it now would be a mistake.

Can you imagine trying to reboot only fools & horses ?

 

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There have been two or three American versions of Fawlty Towers. One of them, called Amanda's, starred Bea Arthur from The Golden Girls - Basil was written out as they thought he was "unsympathetic".
There was also an American version of One Foot in the Grave starring Bill Cosby who insisted his wife from The Cosby Show was in it, they had a couple of kids and the Victor character was slightly grumpy. Which kind of misses the point.

 

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View Badger11's Profile Badger11 Flag Beckenham 15 Feb 23 8.35am Send a Private Message to Badger11 Add Badger11 as a friend

Originally posted by Forest Hillbilly

it's a vehicle for his daughter. No-ones even heard of her until she's lined-up to co-star in this.
Fawlty Towers is at the pinnacle of comedy, there's only one way this can go.

Somebody made that point that the last funny thing John Cleese did was a Fish Called Wanda and that was a very long time ago. It does not bode well.

 


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