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change any policy, Appleby trips him up, Midsomer Murders:
because it is his job to maintain the status
quo. The show had an even more brilliant
sequel, Yes, Prime Minister. The series
won several BAFTAs and was consistently
listed among the Top 10 British sitcoms.
Fawlty Towers:
This British crime show started in 1997 and
ran for 24 seasons. Adapted by Anthony
Horowitz and Douglas Watkinson from
Caroline Graham’s Chief Inspector
Barnaby books. Starting with John Nettles
The British comedy, created by John several other actors played the protagonist
Cleese and Connie Booth was originally as he followed murder cases in the small
broadcast in 1975 and was ranked first on villages across the fictional county
a list of 100 Greatest British Television Midsomer. The show was whimsical and
Programmes drawn up by the British darkly humorous, shot in picturesque
Film Institute in 2000. The series is locations. Even though it was very English,
set in Fawlty Towers, a fictional hotel the show became popular internationally
in the English town of Torquay, run by too and was broadcast in over 200
the brusque owner Basil Fawlty (Cleese) countries. There was a big controversy
and his bossy wife (Prunella Scales). The when Brian True-May, the show’s creator,
efficient chambermaid (Booth) and the said in an interview that it would not have
hapless Spanish waiter (Andrew Sachs) worked so well if there was any racial
with his limited English, somehow manage diversity in the village life. Ironically, till
to run the place and deal with a succession he pointed it out, the show’s fans did not
of demanding guests and comic situations. even notice its whiteness!
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