Hotel Babylon (2006)
At a posh urban hotel, the love lives and whims of its wealthy guests are attended to by hard-working staff who have their own troubles with love.
Cast: Dexter Fletcher, Martin Marquez, Michael Obiora, Raymond Coulthard, Danira Govic, Emma Pierson, Max Beesley, Natalie Mendoza, Billy Burke, Tamzin Outhwaite, Alexandra Moen
Episode 8
Juliet and Sam start to date again whilst the staff are intrigued by the finding of a manuscript of a saucy novel whose characters are obviously based on themselves, the eventual author being an unlikely candidate.
Episode 7
An award ceremony is held at Hotel Babylon, hosted by comic Jim Doody who wants to re-kindle his affair with Juliet, but he is married, and Juliet feels hurt when she finds out.
Episode 6
A wedding between minor European royals is to take place at the hotel and Sam has secured exclusive photo rights, worth a quarter of a million, with an Italian gossip magazine to pay off a huge tax bill. Unfortunately the royal bride elopes with a Canadian equerry so a fake wedding, enacted by staff, is substituted.
Episode 5
To compensate for a usually slack weekend Juliet has let the hotel to a fan convention for the cult 1970s fantasy hero Captain Stranger and she is annoyed that Sam has gone behind her back by recruiting Meredith, a slick motivational expert, to run a team building exercise at the same time.
Episode 4
Whilst tax inspectors and safety officers pay a surprise visit, Hotel Babylon hosts a knock-out poker tournament, one contestant being hotel magnate Damien Rushby, actually Emily's estranged and widowed father.
Episode 3
The posthumous biography of thief-turned-author Harold Kelly claims that in 1973 he hid twelve stolen emeralds in Hotel Babylon and it gives clues in verse as to their location, causing dozens of guests, including Michael Winner, to turn up and join in the treasure hunt along with the excessively eager staff.
Episode 2
Having lost all his other investments the hotel is Sam's only asset and his first job is to bring in an inspector to assess its 'green' credentials. He is very fussy but James exposes him as a hypocrite, wanting a cushy holiday.
Episode 1
Jack has gone and the hotel is due to be closed and sold to Japanese developers and Juliet Miller is caretaker manager for its final weeks. Despite a terrorist alert following a bomb blast a lavish party is being held for Bollywood star Omar Pandit's engagement to Aishia Chadhuri,daughter of a Mumbai hotel magnate whom Tony hopes will buy Hotel Babylon.