What to watch
The Hotel Inspector CHANNEL 5, 9.00PM
The fierce but fair Alex Polizzi returns with another series of her long-running fly-on-thewall show. The opening episode is something of a small gem focusing on old friends John Sinclair and Rob Swires, who recently opened a Peaky Blindersthemed bar in Southport. The bar, named after the TV drama, is doing a roaring trade, which would be enough for most of us, but not John.
John, it transpires, is a man of big dreams. He’s decided to buy out the space above the bar and turn it into accommodation, named The Regency Rooms “because it sounds quite posh”. Have John, Rob and John’s formidable, no-nonsense wife Mel bitten off far more than they can chew? That certainly seems to be the case when Polizzi arrives but as the episode continues so a more complicated, and quite emotional, picture is unveiled.
John might be a dreamer constantly thinking up new projects before the old ones are half-complete, but he has good reasons for rushing through life and Mel emerges as both a warm, supportive partner and someone prepared to say “No” when needed. By the end of it you’ll be rooting with Polizzi for them all to succeed Sarah Hughes
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