<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/91e51638-cc2e-41e5-8e25-cbae30a112d1/D879C1A6-F407-4292-ADA8-5E6494493A1C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/06/television-john-cleese" href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/06/television-john-cleese" style="font-size: 11px;">www.guardian.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/06/television-john-cleese"><H1>Fawlty Towers reunion: John Cleese criticises state of today's television</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/06/television-john-cleese"><P class="stand-first-alone" id="stand-first">Fawlty Towers cast reunite for first time in more than 30 years to promote two new documentaries about the series</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/06/television-john-cleese"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.guardian.co.uk/img/A7A4F139-D393-4071-9B9D-EC625C64AB65" alt="Fawlty Towers reunion: Prunella Scales, John Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/06/television-john-cleese"><P class="caption">Fawlty Towers reunion: Prunella Scales, John Cleese, Connie Booth and Andrew Sachs Photograph: Nils Jorgensen/Rex Features</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/06/television-john-cleese"><P><A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/john-cleese">John Cleese</A> has criticised the state of <A href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/television">television</A> today, accusing broadcasters of not investing enough in writing talent.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/06/television-john-cleese"><P>"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.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/06/television-john-cleese"><P>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.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D879C1A6-F407-4292-ADA8-5E6494493A1C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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