Even though we re still a few years away from the 50th anniversary of Fawlty Towers (September 2025), I thought it would fun to take a look back at how the greatest situation comedy of all-time made the leap to German broadcaster RTL. The first ever non-English adaptation of the John Cleese/Connie Booth bit of brilliance occurred […]
Read moreLucy Briers was born in Hammersmith, London. While it may not be a name you immediately recognize, her theatrical family includes both of her parents who definitely made recognizable names for themselves in the world of TV and Film. Lucy may very well be the epitome of ‘the apple didn’t fall far from the tree‘ […]
Read moreTerry Jones passed away two years ago on January 21 from a rare form of dementia. Take a look back at his brilliant life, career — and his 1970s connection to a public TV station in Dallas, Texas called KERA.
Read moreIn recent years, unfortunately, posts of this nature have become way too frequent and continue to hit too close to home as they involve friends that we’ve made over the years. It was 15 December, 2019 that our friend Nicky Henson, passed away Monday at the age of 74. A statement from the actor’s family at […]
Read moreBased around an exceedingly chaotic and poorly run seaside hotel in Torquay, Fawlty Towers has not only provided laughter to British comedy fans worldwide for the better part of four decades, it is widely considered to be the best British comedy of all-time. Unfortunately, sans Fawlty Towers, the same cannot be said for the Devonshire seaside town of Torquay where the sitcom was based, which now has the coveted distinction of being named one of the worst places to live in the UK, actually #9 on the list.
Read moreRegular readers of Tellyspotting are, no doubt, keenly aware of just how much I do not care for American remakes of British comedies or mysteries. The American broadcast streets are littered with failed remakes of the likes of The IT Crowd, Fawlty Towers, Red Dwarf, Coupling, Spaced, Absolutely Fabulous, Men Behaving Badly, Life on Mars, Skins, The In-Betweeners, […]
Read moreWhile Fawlty Towers will forever remain the great British comedy of all-time, perhaps the greatest television series of all-time (sorry, folks, it’s not Downton Abbey) turns 54 later this month. The Prisoner is made up of 17 hours of pure telly greatness running on ITV in the UK from 29 September 1967 through 1 February 1968. It […]
Read moreKnown worldwide for her role as Sherlock Holmes’ landlady, Mrs. Hudson, Una Stubbs has passed away following a brief illness in Edinburgh surrounded by family at the age of 84. With a career that spanned over 60+ years in show business, her first major screen role was in Cliff Richard’s 1963 film, Summer Holiday. Stubbs became a fixture […]
Read moreBallard Berkeley, who played the bumbling Major Gowen that seemed to always be locked in an endless quest for the afternoon paper in Fawlty Towers, would have been 117 on Friday. The English actor, who appeared on stage and screen, passed away in 1988. Prior to his professional career, Berkeley served as a Special Constable with the […]
Read moreIn an attempt to shed their title of being voted ‘the least funniest country in the world‘ following a 2011 international survey conducted by Badoo.com, Germany has begun filming on a German language version of the British sitcom, Miranda. Currently with the working title of Ruby, the series will star German actress Anna Böger in the […]
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