Metacritic TV

Hotel Babylon

SERIES: BBC America, Wednesday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Starring Max Beesley, Tamzin Outhwaite, Emma Pierson, Dexter Fletcher, Natalie Mendoza, and Michael Obiora

Created by Tony Basgallop

Genre(s): Drama, Soap Opera

FIRST AIR DATE: July 8, 2007

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

74 / 100

Critic Reviews

80 Chicago Tribune Maureen Ryan
Hotel Babylon supplies an attractive cast, a cheeky attitude and just enough depth to keep you coming back for more.
80 Los Angeles Times Robert Lloyd
Hotel Babylon is willfully bright and sexy--like the Parker's décor, it updates a '70s sensibility--but also has a nice eye for detail, good minor characters and well-flowing dialogue.
80 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
A high-gloss series with production values just as significant as what we see on American TV, it's worth checking into Hotel Babylon if you're seeking a respite from reality--TV shows or otherwise.
75 USA Today Robert Bianco
Even when the guests and plots falter, the regular cast keeps the hour in painless motion.
70 Variety Brian Lowry
Light and breezy, Hotel Babylon is a fairly simple conceit, built around the employees at a high-class London hotel and the guests they serve.
70 Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
British reviewers pegged Hotel Babylon correctly when they called it flashy, trashy, cheeky, frothy and "like a perfectly executed souffle."
63 New York Daily News David Hinckley
At blending comedy and drama and presenting freshly drawn characters, though, Hotel Babylon has a lot to learn from the likes of "Desperate Housewives" and "Grey's Anatomy." As a hotel, and as a TV series, put it at less than three stars.

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