Fawlty Towers

Coronation Street producers have confirmed that veteran actor Andrew Sachs has accepted their offer to appear in the ITV soap. The 78-year-old former Fawlty Towers actor is rumoured to have been cast in the role of Norris Cole's (Malcolm Hebden) brother. A spokesperson for the soap said: "I can confirm that Andrew Sachs has taken us up on the offer. He will be joining us later this year." They added:
By Kris Green

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Andrew Sachs has divulged that his upcoming autobiography will not devote much space to the Manuelgate scandal. The 78-year-old Fawlty Towers star was the victim of lewd prank calls from BBC presenters Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand in October, resulting in Ross being suspended for three months and Brand leaving the broadcaster. Sachs revealed to The Daily Telegraph that he had started
By Simon Reynolds

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Going to Park City, Utah for the Sundance Film Festival apparently wasn't awesome enough so our intrepid Editor-in-Chief Steve "Frosty" Weintraub had the good fortune to bump into legendary comedian John Cleese while exiting a Starbucks. This was actually Cleese's first time attending Sundance and he was spending the week there with his daughter, Camilla. Both Frosty and Cleese walked towards the local Albertson's and talked about Cleese's upcoming projects, because when you bump into John Cleese, the smart idea is to ask him about his plans for the future and not quote lines of "Fawlty Towers" at him, which is what I probably would have done. While the idea has been mentioned in passing a few times, Cleese is actually working in earnest with Camilla on a stage musical adaptation of his classic film, "A Fish Called Wanda". They're ...

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