Hotel Babylon

Series Similar to Hotel Babylon

If you enjoyed Hotel Babylon, these series share similar themes, tone, and quality. Each recommendation is scored on genre overlap, tonal match, and critical acclaim.

1. State of Play

   2003 · Drama · ended99% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8), also on BBC One.

   The serial begins with the murder of a young man, in what appears to be a drug-related killing, and the apparently coincidental death of Sonia Baker, the young researcher for MP Stephen Collins (Morrissey). As the deaths are investigated by journalist Cal McCaffrey of The Herald (Simm) and his colleagues (including Kelly Macdonald as Della Smith and Bill Nighy as editor Cameron Foster) it appears that not only were the deaths connected, but that a conspiracy links them with oil industry-backed corruption of high-ranking British government ministers.

2. The Deep

   2010 · Drama · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   In the state-of-the-art research submarine Orpheus, Captain Frances Kelly leads a team of scientists deep below the Arctic ice. They are following the path of an earlier, disastrous expedition; searching the final frontiers of Earth for unknown and remarkable life forms, attempting to find the solution to the world's escalating energy crisis.Enduring crushing pressure, boiling vent gases, freezing temperatures and total darkness, the Orpheus arrives at the Lomonosov Ridge, an enormous area of sea bed which is disputed territory, currently under the United Nations' jurisdiction. Nobody comes here. But there is something else out here: something huge and bewildering. And, as the Orpheus crew struggle for survival and attempt to unravel the mystery, they uncover secrets more terrifying than they ever could have imagined…

3. Cranford

   2007 · Drama · ended97% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   A rich and comic drama about the people of Cranford, a small Cheshire town on the cusp of change in the 1840s. Adapted from the novels by Elizabeth Gaskell.

4. Broken

   2017 · Drama · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem, also on BBC One.

   Drama series about a well-respected Catholic priest presiding over a large parish on the outskirts of a major city in northern England.

5. Upstairs Downstairs

   2010 · Drama · ended96% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   Revival of the iconic '70s series. Life in a London townhouse in the late 1930s, where the fates of the servants 'downstairs' and their masters 'upstairs' are intimately linked.

6. Lark Rise to Candleford

   2008 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   Adaptation of Flora Thompson's memoir of her Oxfordshire childhood, set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, at the end of the 19th Century.

7. Capital

   2015 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, also on BBC One.

   On one day, the people of one South London street all receive an anonymous postcard with the simple message 'we want what you have'. Its unsettling ripples affect every corner of the community.

8. The Newsroom

   2012 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8.4).

   The Newsroom follows the members of a cable news team on their quixotic mission to do the news well in the face of a fickle audience, corporate mandates and tangled personal relationships.

9. Dirt

   2007 · Drama · ended95% match

   Recommended for similar Drama profile, hidden gem.

   Dirt features Hollywood scandals ripped from the headlines. Lucy Spiller is the stalwart, unrelenting editor-in-chief of the tabloid magazine Dirt Now. With an uncanny sixth sense for the truth and an infallible instinct for cover-ups, Lucy exposes the secrets and lies of the famous and the infamous through her magazine with rancorous accuracy.

10. Reckless

    2014 · Drama · ended95% match

    Recommended for similar Drama profile, highly rated (8).

    Reckless is set in Charleston, S.C., where a gorgeous Yankee litigator and a charming southern attorney must hide their intense mutual attraction as a police sex scandal threatens to tear the city apart.