EXCLUSIVE: Fawlty Towers star John Cleese took a swipe at the BBC as he spoke about bringing a revival of the hit series, set in a 70s Torquay hotel, to the West End.

Almost exactly 50 years since its pilot episode aired in the U.K., British classic comedy "Fawlty Towers" is heading to London's West End. (May 4)

The London West End stage adaptation of 'Fawlty Towers' will be free of racial slurs, creator John Cleese has said.

John Cleese appeared in the West End this week. ‘I’ve got vertigo,’ he said as he walked on stage at the Apollo, Shaftesbury Avenue. ‘I cannot get rid of it. So I’m behaving as if I’m 184 not 84.

The stage play of Fawlty Towers opens later this month, with a brand-new cast ready and waiting to check us in to that iconic hotel in Torquay. Basil, Sybil, Polly and Manuel are all returning at the West End’s Apollo Theatre,

John Cleese, 84, has spoken on the consequences of oversensitivity at an exclusive performance of his new Fawlty Towers play. It’s 10:30 am, and I’m one row from the front of the Apollo Theatre on London’s Shaftesbury Avenue.

Fawlty Towers writer and actor John Cleese is giving the show a reboot and writing new episodes with his daughter Camilla Cleese but they won't update the show.

Cleese explained some of the original dialogue used within the two-hour play, which merges three popular episodes into an overarching storyline, has been edited to remove “racia