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A New Hotel-Themed Show Is Coming To Comedy Central
Since we still haven't heard anything about Andre Balazs' rumored HBO miniseries on the Chateau Marmont, it's a good thing another network has picked up the slack. Comedy Central has ordered a pilot episode of Almost Vacant, which Deadline describes as following "the misadventures of two inept friends, Jim and Nic, as they work at a low-end budget hotel in upper New York."
The show's been written by Nicolas Wright (above) and James Woods, who co-starred in IFC's The Business, which was about an ex-softcore-porn-director trying to make a name for himself as a respectable indie filmmaker. While not too many details on Almost Vacant have emerged, we're sure glad to see more hotel-set TV shows hitting the airwaves (see also: Gordon Ramsay).
As we've known for quite some time now, you don't have to hang around in a hotel for long to see some pretty crazy shiz.
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Gordon Ramsay Heads To Pennsylvania For More 'Hotel Hell'
Yep, it's that bad
After discovering late last month that The Keating Hotel in San Francisco will be one of the hotels featured ripped apart by Gordon Ramsay on Hotel Hell, we've been dying to know which other towns across the country will be getting visits from his spiky-haired highness.
Now, we can add Milford, Pennsylvania to the list. The New Jersey Herald is reporting that Ramsay will be making over the River Rock Inn, a B&B housed in a 10-bedroom Victorian-style house built in 1876.
According to the hotel's Facebook page, producers for the show have taken over all bookings, and have so far received over 1500 reservation requests, from (we're guessing) hotel geeks trying to get front row seats of Ramsay working his magic. And judging from the pictures, this place really does need some magic. Or a sledgehammer.
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Gordon Ramsay Makes Over The Keating Hotel in San Diego for 'Hotel Hell'
The other day when we heard that chef Gordon Ramsay stayed at the Hard Rock San Diego while filming episodes for his new reality show, Hotel Hell, we were dying to know which hotels or B&Bs he was tasked with making over. As it turns out, we didn't have to wait too long to find out.
Ramsay was working his magic at The Keating Hotel on F Street. The hotel has only been open for about four years but the slick Italian Pininfarina interiors (the same designers behind Maserati and Ferrari) received so-so reviews from the LA Times as well as one of our own HotelChatter Mavens, Mari, who could hardly sleep thanks to all the nightclub noise next door.
Enter Chef Ramsay.
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'How to Make it in America' Has The NYC Hotel Hierarchy Listed
"How to Make it in America" is back on HBO for its second season and while Rachel is no longer dating the bisexual hotelier, the boys of Crisp--Cam and Ben--have the NYC hotel party scene all, ahem, sewn up.
When two fashion buyers from Gadzooks in St. Louis come into town looking for fashion ideas and wild parties, they get a little lesson on what's hot and what's not in the hotel world.
The girls first tried to get into the Boom Boom Room at The Standard but despite offering to fellatiate a doorman (ew), they got turned away. One of the girls says, "I knew we should have stayed at The Standard. All the guys at The Mondrian (Soho) are busted." Actually, staying at The Standard probably would not increase their chances of getting in as the Boom Boom Room is members-only.
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'Entourage' Continues to Make Love to LA Hotels
The final season of Entourage is turning out to be one long-lasting makeout session with Los Angeles hotels.
In the season's second episode, the boys found themselves unexpectedly shacked up in a "penthouse" suite at the Hollywood Roosevelt. We're using quotation marks because we're pretty sure that's a fake hotel suite set up for filming purposes somewhere not inside the hotel.
The W Hollywood also made an appearance, although slightly veiled as their Delphine restaurant was given a Hollywood makeover as celeb chef Bobby Flay's restaurant. (Currently, Flay does not have an LA shop.)
And in this week's episode, nearly every important scene took place at a hotel.
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For 'Entourage's' Final Season, The Boys are Living Large at the Hollywood Roosevelt
Nary an episode of Entourage airs without at least one scene taking place in a hot Hollywood hotel so it's no surprise that the final season of the bro show is starting off with Vince, Turtle, E and Johnny Drama living it up at the Hollywood Roosevelt in a penthouse suite.
Granted, they are only there because Turtle accidentally burned down their house but still, the guys have had a long love affair with the Roosevelt. (See here and here.) This time around they are presumably shacked up in the Gable Lombard Penthouse Suite at the hotel which has three full-size bedrooms (we're guessing Turtle and Johnny Drama are sharing) as well as a full-sized kitchen, vaulted ceilings, 1,500sq.ft. of roof deck space underneath the Hollywood Roosevelt sign, and a built-in surround system, among many other amenities.
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New Miniseries Will Explore Chateau Marmont's Celeb-Filled Past
The Chateau Marmont has had its share in the spotlight, most recently in the Sofia Coppola-helmed flick Somewhere. But now the West Hollywood hotel will have its own starring role in a new miniseries from Office star John Krasinski and Social Network scribe Aaron Sorkin, Deadline Hollywood reported.
The duo will executive produce the hotel-set HBO show with hotelier Andre Balazs and his daughter Alessandra. (Aha! So this is that TV show Andre was working on.) It will be based off the book Life at the Marmont by former hotel co-owner Raymond R. Sarlot and Fred Basten.
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The Girls of '90210' Head to The 90015 for New Episode
As if you didn't hate those 90210 plastics enough for reminding you of the mean girls in high school, they get to hang by the Figueroa Hotel pool while you freeze in the snow. Actually, the California girls were shooting scenes for an upcoming episode for the second half of the third season.
Reports of 90210's filming only identified the shooting location as a "downtown LA hotel," But thanks to On Location Vacations, we found out that cast members Jessica Lowndes and Jessica Stroup were hiding out in the Figueroa, which sits across the street from the Staples Center.
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New TV Show 'Magic City' Will Follow Mobsters in a 1960s Miami Beach Hotel
The Fontainebleau Miami--possible TV set?
Here we go again--someone is attempting another tv show about hotels. But this one may fare slightly better than the rest.
Cable network Starz has just announced their pick-up of "Magic City" , a period drama set in the 1960s that follows the comings and goings of mobsters, entertainers and politicians at a posh Miami Beach Hotel. Ooo kinda like if Mad Men met Boardwalk Empire!!
Deadline Hollywood reports:
The subject matter is a tightrope in dealing with the mob, his own complicated family, racial tensions and a city that is about to blow up as a destination for decadence.
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You Haven't Really Made It Until You've Been Turned Into a Cartoon
When it comes to cartoons, TV audiences are now pretty familiar with seeing celebrity guests pop up in episodes of The Simpsons and the like, contributing their own voices and thus attaining legend status. What we're less likely to see are buildings—hotels, to be more specific—popping up with little cartoon guest cameos of their own. However, on last night's Family Guy, The Standard NYC did just that.
The episode focused on Brian, the family dog, who pens a best-selling self-help book and embarks on a book tour. While stopping in New York to do a signing at the Barnes & Noble and take meetings at Pastis, Brian and Stewie stay at The Standard. The name of the hotel is never mentioned, but as you can see from the shot above, and from watching the scene (start around 7:45 here on Hulu), it's so obviously the Meatpacking District hotel.
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And Now There Will Be a TV Show About Andre Balazs
As if it wasn't already bad interesting enough that hottie hotelier Andre Balazs would be bringing galpal Courtney Love with him to London as he starts to work on his two new hotels there, we're now seeing reports that he may be headed to the small screen.
Contact Music has this little report on Andre's new TV project.
The tycoon has teamed up with writer Alex Keshishian to develop the untitled project.
He says, "It's a scripted show loosely based on hotel life in general. He's writing it and producing it. It's in it's early stage. It's not a reality (TV) show. It's a serious endeavour."
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Dexter, Nurse Jackie, Tara And Co. Take Showtime To Cassa
The Big C Clarity Lounge.
Ever wondered what kind hotel Dexter or Nurse Jackie would stay in? While the Showtime House--a design event that marries interior design and Showtime's biggest characters--actually has very little to do with hotels, this year it's located inside one, New York's Cassa Hotel & Residences.
Which gave us a great excuse to check out what the designers had come up with for the fictional characters and also see what Cassa has to offer in real life.
We'll have more of the regular hotel rooms to show you tomorrow, but for now, take a spin through some of the Showtime House rooms, and keep your eyes peeled for views that could be yours if you were a hotel guest here ...
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