A Few Words: The Hotel

Not since Airline has real life so reflected fiction. In this eccentric Channel Four show, we take a fly-on-the-wall look at a real hotel (the Damson Dene) in the Lake District, where characters are seemingly around every corner. The "manager" Wayne, whose work consists of shifting tables and whose residence is a small caravan outside the hotel where he lives with his dog. The kitchen staff, composed almost entirely of full-time Eastern Europeans, and the Manuel-like Amos.
     These people couldn't get closer to a Fawlty Towers type farce if they tried, and yet every second of it is real. The editing is a tad manipulative, perhaps, but the fact is that this is relaity TV - no constructed environments, no "challenges," etc.: the perfect Car Crash TV. The Hotel takes real, ridiculous characters and slaps them on our screen. Essential Sunday viewing.
     Well. Better than Lewis anyway.

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I can't make any promises about scheduling, but I'm hoping to have Lost 4.9 out tonight and Being Human 1.3 sometime later in the week. Thanks for your patience.