Hotel Babylon - Season 4 (2009)

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.He wants to buy Babylon and when Sam refuses, having guessed that he called in the unwanted visitors to weaken him,Damien plays cards with him with the hotel as the stake. Sam loses... Tony meets his exact double, American writer Bobby Mack, who craves a return to his humble origins and persuades Tony to swap places with him for the day. Both do well, Tony ...

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. Gino gets a hot date with Mary, one of the conventioners, but her obsession with the show spoils any future they might have. Juliet and Ben help out washed-up television presenter Martin Armstrong, who has been stowing away in the hotel, pinching food and showers. They get him an ...

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. Gennaro, the magazine editor, rumbles it and threatens legal action but Sam counters by telling Gennaro he will expose him for the illegal means he uses to gain stories. James learns humility from an aged trainee and Tony combines with a wealthy wild child...

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. A jealous Sam plays strip poker with journalist Charlotte, who is organizing her friend's baby shower - for the wrong reasons - and Juliet and Sam end up getting a little bit closer. James is caught in the crossfire when the two wives of deceased Italian artist Christiano Cucci disagree over his wake and has cause to thank Gino when the 'corpse' disappears and turns out to be very alive, the ...

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. The hotel hosts a dating evening where Sam rescues Emily from a lecherous press baron and Juliet's old mate Karen tells Sam that his ex-wife aborted their baby. Sam gets cosy with Emily but she has the grace to send him home to Juliet. Everyone rallies round Melanie to keep her in her job and Tony 's support for a young drug addict gains him promotion in ...