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All eight episodes from the first season of the BBC drama series set in the luxury five-star hotel industry, a place where money not only talks but can buy you just about anything you desire. Behind the 'Staff Only' doors we meet glamorous General Manager Rebecca (Tamsin Outhwaite) who is excellent at running a business but can't stop her marriage crumbling; Tony (Dexter Fletcher) the concierge who can get you anything, from anywhere; beautiful receptionist Anna (Emma Pierson) with an eye for a wealthy and eligible guest; Head of Housekeeping Jackie (Natalie Mendoza), whose chambermaids have seen it all; and Charlie (Max Beesley), on the way up but with a shady past that could see him crash down even faster. As self-indulgent rock stars, foreign millionaires, hotel inspectors, long-stay eccentrics, high-class hookers and competition winners fill the luxury suites, these are the staff who drive their rollercoaster of hedonism and excess around the clock - always with the utmost discretion.
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The complete first series of the hit BBC comedy drama set in a luxury 5-star hotel starring Max Beesley (Glitter; TV-s Survivors) as Head Receptionist Charlie Edwards, Tamzin Outhwaite (7 Seconds; Tv's- Eastenders; The Fixer) as the glamorous General Manager Rebecca Mitchell and Dexter Fletcher (Caravaggio,; Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels; Layer Cake; Tv's - Press Gang) as the Concierge who get you anything, from anywhere !.
3 DISC-SET/16:9 Widescreen/Regions 2+4/PAL/Running time..471 mins.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
By Thomas Guy
Format:DVD
Hotel Babylon isn't the best written show on television. What makes it great is its style and presentation: there's something about the gorgeous sets, photogenic cast and interesting camerawork that made me feel at home from the first episode to the last. Okay, so it may be a long way from the real hotel business, (or the real world generally for that matter,) and the stories may rely more on catchy visuals than serious plots, but Hotel Babylon wraps the viewer in a cosy stylish cocoon, and I can quite happily live with that. Isn't that what a good hotel does?
23 of 27 people found the following review helpful
By ejc
Format:DVD
I watched the entire series from its orriginal air and loved it. Personally, i think the idea wasso frsh, yes there have been so many hotel comedys/dramas/dramedeys, etc, but only set in lower class hotels. To see the scandals, many of which based on truth, in a 5* london hotel. the camera is brilliant, plus the links of accelerated shots of london is brilliant. the hotel always looks immaculate and the set is so convincing, if only it were real!!
15 of 18 people found the following review helpful
By Helen
Format:DVD
Hugely entertaining, another of those unique offerings like Cutting It that aren't easy to categorise and some people will inevitably call sleazy or superficial - yet really it's neither because the lowdown is said to be based on truth, ditto in the equally rivetting book of the same title that this TV series is based on. As an enthusiast for Arnold Bennett's fine old books about hotels, Imperial Palace and Grand Babylon Hotel, I was immediately tempted to watch this TV series if only out of curiosity, and am delighted I did. Rather different to Bennett but equally fascinating! Intensely more-ish so thank goodness there is another series to come next year. Highly recommended.
47 of 58 people found the following review helpful
By Watcher
Format:DVD
Almost without substance, this very more-ish dramatic confection is crafted for night-time British television with all the finesse which, as with the work of the finest French pattisseur, produces a deliciously indulgent, and wholly irresistible, guilty pleasure. The chief delight is to be had from a supremely smooth and glamorous surface, and a light froth of drama that tickles but vanishes with no regrets. It is something you will sit down to after the heavier dishes of the day; it requires no chewing over, and is not oppressively heavy to digest at the end of a week already stuffed with offerings that can too often lie like lead on our jaded system, and leave a distinctly sour aftertaste. The BBC's wonderfully light yet deceptively expert touch has whipped lashings of air-time into this very superior souffle. This is how entertaining should be done!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Blu-ray|Amazon Verified Purchase
IM FROM CANADA NEVER HEARD OF THIS BUT IT WAS ON SALE SO I BLIND GOT IT SO HAPPY I DID IT WAS LIKE 16$ USD SHIPED AND IT PLAYS FINE IN PS3 IN CANADA AND USA
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By C. Evans
Format:DVD
If you have caught some of the episodes of later series on the TV you won't be disappointed to see how it all began. I would highly recommend it!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD
Hotel Babylon is my favourite TV-series these days. The plot, the cast, the filming... I love everything about Hotel Babylon.
This is a high quality series that I will recommend to anyone looking for entertainment and exitement, and i sneek peek into the world of luxury hotels.
Five stars!
This is a high quality series that I will recommend to anyone looking for entertainment and exitement, and i sneek peek into the world of luxury hotels.
Five stars!
By GEC
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
I bought this product because of the stars in it. It is actually very lightweight and I wouldn't purchase anymore series of it.
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Published 1 month ago by Zoe Buck
5.0 out of 5 stars
Brilliant
Brilliant series, funny, fast moving, witty, very well written, intriguing, engaging, full of believable interesting characters, stylishly shot. Top class
Published 4 months ago by R.I.M.BERRY
4.0 out of 5 stars
Outrageous, flawed and always OTT, but who cares? This is fun as hell!
Hotel Babylon is one of those TV series where the BBC takes a risk. Let's face it, it's hardly realistic or ground breaking, is it? But the BBC played its cards brilliantly here. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Ben Franks
4.0 out of 5 stars
hotel babylon
Bought this to remind me of the TV series, so I've seen it already.
Pure escapism from our bland, normal everyday life to the luxury of a five star hotel. Read more
Pure escapism from our bland, normal everyday life to the luxury of a five star hotel. Read more
Published on 24 May 2011 by K.C.
4.0 out of 5 stars
great to watch!
This dvd box set was great to watch (best one i have seen)If your thinking of getting this i would say you were mad not too.
Published on 16 April 2011 by suz :@)
5.0 out of 5 stars
Pure, unadulterated fun
This is not a show to be taken seriously, but is one to be watched in the humour that it was intended. Read more
Published on 24 Feb 2010 by Sarah Clerin
5.0 out of 5 stars
scandalously juicy
you've got to love a tv show with a title like this and the credits alone are fantastic. a little far fetched perhaps but highly entertaining. Read more
Published on 11 Nov 2009 by jewellery
4.0 out of 5 stars
Hoteliery with pizzazz
This is a good series; there are snippets of behind the scenes in hotels, and good character interaction. Read more
Published on 23 Oct 2009 by Mike Golding
3.0 out of 5 stars
Grand Hotel it ain't
And I thought only American television could produce such pointless, unfunny, witless shows.
Good-looking Max Beesley was delightful in Tom Jones but, aside from the... Read more
Good-looking Max Beesley was delightful in Tom Jones but, aside from the... Read more
Published on 5 Sep 2009 by M. FUSCO
5.0 out of 5 stars
A funny, witty British hotel drama
The setting is a London hotel and Series 1 is really funny, making you wonder if all hotels are like it, and they probably are. Light-hearted but realistic all the same. Read more
Published on 17 July 2009 by Alexandre
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