
Hotel Babylon
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One
- 2006 - 2009
- 32 episodes (4 series)
Comedy drama about the workings of a glamorous 5-star London hotel, and the lives of its key staff members. Stars Tamzin Outhwaite, Max Beesley, Dexter Fletcher, Emma Pierson, Martin Marquez and more.
Episode menu
Series 4, Episode 6
Further details

Babylon has secured an exclusive magazine deal to host a Royal wedding with Italian glossy magazine Certo!. When the wedding is called off, however, Juliet is astonished that Sam plans to forge ahead regardless, using the hotel's staff as the wedding party - Emily will be a princess from Lichtenstein, with Ben as her dashing groom.
Sam has received an unexpected tax bill and was relying on the money to pay off the balance. For once, Juliet decides to back his hair-brained scheme and helps the gang pull out all the stops. But, in spite of their fantastic efforts, the slippery magazine editor, Gennaro Fazio, exposes their game.
Elsewhere, Tony is tasked with looking after a teenage swimming prodigy, Mandy Warren, but quickly realises her managers, who are also her parents, are sucking her dry.
In the restaurant, meanwhile, James supervises a government trainee scheme and is surprised when a twinkly eyed octogenarian, Ken, turns up. James assumes the old codger is being a pest to a well-known food critic dining in the restaurant and has him demoted to the kitchens. But he's actually made quite an impression and James eats humble pie when he promotes him back to front of house.
Broadcast details
- Date
- Friday 31st July 2009
- Time
- 9pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 60 minutes
Cast & crew
Dexter Fletcher | Tony Casemore |
Martin Marquez | Gino Primirola |
Michael Obiora | Ben Trueman |
Raymond Coulthard (as Ray Coulthard) | James Schofield |
Danira Govic | Tanya Mihajlov |
Alexandra Moen | Emily James |
Nigel Harman | Sam Franklin |
Anna Wilson Jones | Juliet Miller |
Darius Danesh | Gennaro |
Trevor Peacock | Ken |
Kelly Osbourne | Jo |
Annabelle Apsion | Alexis Warren |
Eleanor Gecks | Mandy |
Colin Wells | Simon Warren |
John Savident | Tristrum Calder |
Richard Durden | Count |
Barbara Wilshere | Mrs Sears |
Romy Baskerville | Mrs Warren |
Jonathan Brackley | Writer |
Sam Vincent | Writer |
Katy Harmer | Script Editor |
Jim Loach | Director |
Gareth Neame | Executive Producer |
Polly Williams | Producer |
Christopher Aird | Executive Producer |
Colin Fair | Editor |
Karl Probert | Production Designer |
John Lunn | Composer |
Jim Williams | Composer |
Mike Lovatt | Trumpeter |
Chris Deacon | Trumpeter |
Press
It seems money is talking louder than common sense in this glossy hotel drama: in another bonkers storyline, owner Sam (Nigel Harman) strikes a deal with a magazine when the hotel is chosen as the venue for a royal wedding. But when the wedding is called off Sam continues with the party regardless, getting the hotel's staff to masquerade as wedding guests. It's all impish fun, but guest stars Kelly Osbourne and Darius Danesh are embarrassingly awkward.
Rachel Ward, The Telegraph, 31st July 2009Do you ever have those really weird dreams where famous people crop up in bizarre situations? Paul Ross unicycling through Matalan, that kind of thing? Well, is it just me or does Hotel Babylon, with each passing week, feel increasingly like one of those dreams?
Mike Ward, The Daily Express, 31st July 2009