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  • 2009-09-30T19:00:00Z
  • 46m
  • 4h 36m (6 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Documentary
Ruth Watson's Hotel Rescue is an observational documentary television series which aired on British terrestrial television channel, Channel 4 in 2009. In each episode, the celebrated hotelier Ruth Watson visits and assesses the site of a planned hotel, guest house or bed and breakfast, and offers advice and support to the new owner/s. Watson identifies weaknesses in the preparations of the new establishments, and then sends the new owners to various hotels in the UK to improve their skills. Each episode usually culminates in the new hotel being secretly inspected and assessed by a tourism agency or travel writer. Premiering in September 2009, Hotel Rescue was the second Channel 4 series to star Ruth Watson, as part of her exclusive deal with the channel to front a number of series. Watson also fronts Country House Rescue for Channel 4, which sees her turn her attention to struggling country houses and their owners. Watson has previously starred in The Hotel Inspector, a documentary series for Five of a very similar format to Ruth Watson's Hotel Rescue, but with existing struggling hotels, rather than new start-ups. Watson herself has described the show as "Grand Designs meets The Hotel Inspector".

6 episodes

Series Premiere

2009-09-30T19:00:00Z

1x01 Creeting House, Suffolk

Series Premiere

1x01 Creeting House, Suffolk

  • 2009-09-30T19:00:00Z46m

Ruth Watson is doing her best to help Diana and Steve from Suffolk. They're a pair of music industry types whose family have flown the nest, leaving them rambling around their imposing home, Creeting House.

1x02 Stubton Hall, East Midlands

  • 2009-10-07T19:00:00Z46m

Ruth helps American ex-pats Kent and Claire, whose ambitious five million pound hotel and spa project in Newark, Nottinghamshire has fallen six months behind schedule.

2009-10-14T19:00:00Z

1x03 The Blackpool Hotel

1x03 The Blackpool Hotel

  • 2009-10-14T19:00:00Z46m

Ruth visits Blackpool, where brothers Rod and Shaun Smallwood have taken over the zero-starred Kenbarry Hotel. Their ambitious plan is to reinvent it into a spa hotel.

2009-10-21T19:00:00Z

1x04 Icon Hotel, Luton

1x04 Icon Hotel, Luton

  • 2009-10-21T19:00:00Z46m

Ruth visits Luton, where Franco and his wife Lefi are taking on a mammoth project turning two 80s office blocks into a hotel, but as debts mount can Ruth help rescue the project?

1x05 The Reading Rooms, Margate

  • 2009-10-28T20:00:00Z46m

Ruth goes to Margate in Kent, where ambitious property developers Louise and Liam are battling to launch their boutique B&B as the recession starts to bite.

2009-11-04T20:00:00Z

1x06 The Royal, Clacton

1x06 The Royal, Clacton

  • 2009-11-04T20:00:00Z46m

Ruth visits Clacton-on Sea to meet an Essex entrepreneur who dreams of restoring the seaside town's famous Victorian hotel to its former glory.

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