Gran Hotel (TV series)

The events take place in 1906–1907 in Spain, near a town called Cantaloa. The working-class Julio Olmedo arrives at the luxurious Grand Hotel to visit his sister Cristina, who works there as a maid and who has recently been promoted to floor manager. Julio is told by a waiter that Cristina was fired for theft a month before, a story Julio does not believe. He is convinced something happened to her at the hotel and there was a coverup. He takes a job there as a waiter under the name Julio Espinosa to investigate his sister's disappearance. He soon finds an ally in Alicia Alarcón, one of the daughters of the hotel's owner Doña Teresa. Alicia, who is being forced to marry hotel manager Diego Murquía, is also suspicious of things happening at the hotel. Together Julio and Alicia work to uncover the secrets of the Gran Hotel.

In France, the series premiered on Téva on 1 June 2012 and on M6 on 4 July 2012.[3] In Russia, it started airing on Domashny on 11 June 2012.[4] The rights to broadcast Grand Hotel were acquired in the United Kingdom by Sky Arts. The series has also been sold to Turkey (Sinema TV Aşk),[5] Lithuania (LNK),[6] Estonia (Sony Entertainment Estonia and Kanal 11) and Venezuela (Televen). In Germany, the rights were acquired by Sony Entertainment Television [7] and on the free-TV-channel Disney Channel. In Poland the series started on 12 November 2013 by AXN White in its original language and Polish lector.[8] In Slovakia, broadcasting by RTVS TV canal, started on the 7th of January 2014.[9] In Serbia, it started airing on RTS 2 on 10 March 2015.[10] In Bulgaria the series started on 5 June 2015 on Nova Television.[11]

In the United States, Grand Hotel premiered on VmeTV[12] on 31 October 2013 in its original language. As of August 2020, episodes can be streamed on Netflix with English subtitles.

In the summer of 2016, Alpha television in Greece ceased broadcasting of the show.

In Iran, the series was dubbed in Persian language and broadcast by GEM TV.[13]

On IMDb the series received a favourable 8.4 rating.

There have been several international remakes and adaptations of Gran Hotel:

• Italy's Rai 1 premiered an adaptation directed by Luca Ribuoli on 1 September 2015.[14] The Italian version was re-titled in German-speaking countries as Hotel Imperial when it was broadcast by Servus TV on 29 July 2016. The Italian version consists of six episodes of two hours each, whereas the German broadcast has been divided into twelve one hour episodes.[15]
• Mexican network Televisa produced an adaptation, El hotel de los secretos (The Hotel of Secrets), that premiered on Las Estrellas channel in January 2016.[16]
• Egypt's CBC produced a popular Arabic market adaptation of Grand Hotel as a musalsal in 2016 which received critical acclaim and several awards.[17][18] Netflix released the Egyptian version, under the title Secret of the Nile and with English, French, German, Italian and Spanish subtitles, on 15 March 2018. It is the first Egyptian series to air on Netflix.[18][19]
• In the United States, ABC premiered an adaptation called Grand Hotel, set in Miami in the present day, on 17 June 2019.[20][21][22] It was cancelled in October 2019 after one season.
• In France, TF1 produced and premiered an adaptation called Grand Hôtel, set on the French Riviera in the present day, on 3 September 2020.

• Official website
• Gran Hotel at IMDb