John Cleese is a brilliant master of the spontaneous retort, perhaps redoing FT is reaching as we seniors often do when lost in the depths of reminiscing ? Should be interesting if it happens , if it fails he has a back up series about a newscaster.
I saw this on the news last night and thought it a hopeless idea, now I've read more I'm even more convinced it would never work. The original Fawlty Towers (a mere 12 episodes in total if memory serves me right) was an absolute comedy classic of its time and a shining star of what can be done...