OK – I give up. There is a series that has just finished on BBC TV called Hotel On Sea. Was it real, or was it a sit-com, or was it a wind-up? The Edinburgh Evening News simply deals in further ambiguity saying:
Hotel On Sea, (BBC1, Monday), on the other hand, deserves its 7.30pm slot. Set in the run-down President Hotel in Blackpool, it takes the reality-TV-meets-comedy baton from The Office and runs with it. A collection of bizarre yet believable characters make this underplayed sitcom one of the best on the box at the moment.
A search on Google has been fruitless, other than to discover that there is a real President Hotel in Blackpool and it gets bad reports. There is supposedly a “documentary” in the programme listings, but the url doesn’t work. I sat and watched the half-hour programme most weeks, and could not believe that such people really existed. Then, by the end, found myself warming to them. Will there be media careers for these folks I found myself asking – akin to Ben Fogle from Castaways, or Jeremy Spake, from Airport.
Somebody else out there must have been watching it as well. Go on, put me out of my misery.
Iv’e not seen it but it’s noted on BBC Scotlands TV site as a documentary
but i can’t find anything else about it.
That’s a very deep question, Freda….
Philosophers have been trying to work that one out for ever.
8~)
Horror of horrors Freda, its a documentry, no acting involved. Help ma boab!!!
Thanks for the comments. I still have difficulty in believing!