![Deadline Hollywood on Twitter: "Basil Fawlty is back. A reboot of John Cleese's British comedy sensation #FawltyTowers is in the works and Rob Reiner's Castle Rock Entertainment is developing https://t.co/RzYAE0yxb9 https://t.co/2K02ncZCyM" / Deadline Hollywood on Twitter: "Basil Fawlty is back. A reboot of John Cleese's British comedy sensation #FawltyTowers is in the works and Rob Reiner's Castle Rock Entertainment is developing https://t.co/RzYAE0yxb9 https://t.co/2K02ncZCyM" /](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FoY54hqWIAAzJvL.jpg)
Deadline Hollywood on Twitter: "Basil Fawlty is back. A reboot of John Cleese's British comedy sensation #FawltyTowers is in the works and Rob Reiner's Castle Rock Entertainment is developing https://t.co/RzYAE0yxb9 https://t.co/2K02ncZCyM" /
![Remember that hysterical Fawlty Towers scene where, during a fire drill, Basil locks Manuel in a burning kitchen? TIL that he actually DID catch fire, and still bears the scars. : r/todayilearned Remember that hysterical Fawlty Towers scene where, during a fire drill, Basil locks Manuel in a burning kitchen? TIL that he actually DID catch fire, and still bears the scars. : r/todayilearned](https://external-preview.redd.it/SKn-bud71onkY5i6SfVcD5cENybJ0obhWYsRfaaddzo.jpg?auto=webp&s=b6d75a8ad7545d35b13ef58375d48842a2857b69)
Remember that hysterical Fawlty Towers scene where, during a fire drill, Basil locks Manuel in a burning kitchen? TIL that he actually DID catch fire, and still bears the scars. : r/todayilearned
![TIL John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric hotel owner who'd accommodated Monty Python. Sinclair threw Eric Idle's briefcase out of a window because he mistook TIL John Cleese based the character of Basil Fawlty on Donald Sinclair, an eccentric hotel owner who'd accommodated Monty Python. Sinclair threw Eric Idle's briefcase out of a window because he mistook](https://external-preview.redd.it/gDA3gtSBpdV1VG0xCuLCuXO_UlnuNX4nGu_N4W5d-ME.jpg?auto=webp&s=3fd22e4fc46d252c14b04485bb53fe77f7872f6e)