clipped from: www.guardian.co.uk Fawlty Towers cast reunite for first time in more than 30 years to promote two new documentaries about the series
Fawlty Towers reunion: Prunella Scales, John Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features
John Cleese has criticised the state of television today, accusing broadcasters of not investing enough in writing talent.
"If you go back to television in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s we did have the least bad television in the world. That's quite a claim," said Cleese.
He added that it was unlikely Fawlty Towers would have been made today. "I don't think they would. We were so deeply lucky to be working in television when we did. It was wonderful because there wasn't the fear," Cleese said.