Harry Redknapp's attempts at comedy made England look very small, as did the audience's guffawing reaction as he spoke at a ...

Laugh all you want, eat your three-course if dinner you can; it isn't made all that easy as your rib-cage is heaving with ...

Award-winning North Star Housing is using a robot barista to serve up a ground-breaking new era in customer service. PETER ...

Basil Fawlty – the bad-tempered Torquay hotelier in Fawlty Towers, the sitcom I created with Connie Booth in 1975 – is very much a product of that lost middle class. As so many people in this ...

In conclusion, Manuel's role in Fawlty Towers is far more than that of a simple side character. He is essential to the show's comedic structure, and if you were to take him out the scripts then the ...

Rude, snobbish, obtuse and with little patience, entering the hospitality industry was probably never the best move for Basil Fawlty. He is constantly frustrated by his wife and the guests who he ...

Fawlty Towers had a central thread of the master-servant relationship between Basil Fawlty, the hotel owner and the Spanish waiter-cum-porter, Manuel. Their comedy depended on the plot ...

Residents have nicknamed the robot Basil, after Basil Fawlty. Fred Connor, 87, was one of the robot barista’s first customers. “It’s the first time I’ve seen anything like it, but we have ...

A celebration of John Cleese and Connie Booth's acclaimed sitcom following the misadventures of Torquay hotel owner Basil Fawlty. The programme explores its phenomenal success, with a selection of ...