QOTD: What’s the best modern American sitcom?
I’ll choose HBO’s 1990s series The Larry Sanders Show, a brilliant tragi-comedy about fame and celebrity, and a don’t-ask-what’s-in-the-sausage look at how talk TV gets made.
Cheers
question of the day: What if ‘Fawlty Towers’ didn’t exist?
John Cleese has revealed that the BBC thought that the script for the first episode of Fawlty Towers — written by Cleese and his then-wife, Connie Booth (who played Polly on the show) was so “dire” that the show would be a disaster. Quoted in the Times of London, Cleese says: What happened was, Connie … more…
