“The Hotel”- Coming Soon

In a few weeks the Damson Dene Hotel will, if Channel 4 has its way, be famous. This cartoon, which appeared on the front page of the Westmorland Gazette has been drawn in response to a preliminary flurry of publicity in the local papers about a TV series, based at the Damson Dene, which has the preliminary title of “The Hotel”. It will be shown in 8 one hour episodes on Channel 4, after the watershed. ​

​The filming of the programme, which took up a great chunk of our lives last summer, was made by an independent company called Dragonfly who made the well known ‘fly on the wall’ series, The Family and One Born Every Minute. The latter won a Bafta last year.

I’m not allowed, just yet, to say any more except that the first episode had me roaring with laughter one minute and weeping the next. Of course, I’m too close to it all to judge how the Great British Public will take to it – but I’ve got a feeling that Dragonfly know what they’re doing.