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Review: Black Adder Remastered, Fawlty Towers Remastered
- When I was a kid, I remember seeing episodes of a couple of strange British shows on my local PBS affiliate in Rochester, NY. I never caught them regularly, not even sur...
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New TV DVDs for Oct. 20: 'Dr. Quinn,' 'Homicide,' 'Top Chef' & More
- While most studios usually wait until Christmas to put out their top DVD releases, this year it seems as though they've decided that Halloween is good enough as today bri...
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Cleese doesn't mention the war during eye surgery
- According to Twitter, John Cleese is recovering from successful eye surgery in the U.K. Following a procedure on his left eye, Cleese handed his Tweets over to a friend,...
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Thirty years of Fawlty Towers
- John Cleese, Connie Booth, Prunella Scales and Andrew Sachs reunited for the filming of a Fawlty Towers reunion. At first I'd hoped it was new material, but sadly it was...
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John Cleese to retire from sitcoms; will become comedy professor
- OK, this is a bit confusing; this BBC article says that John Cleese is retiring from writing and performing sitcoms, because nothing he could do would top the genius of ...
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Basil Fawlty is an inept and slightly out-of-his-head English hotel manager, who is tortured by ``that annoying section of the general public who insist on staying at hotels.'' Fawlty is constantly berated by his wife, and his efforts are continually hampered by their Spanish waiter, Manuel.