Devon based documentary The Hotel will return toTV on Sunday for a fourth series.
The new series of the 'real-life Fawlty Towers' follows Mark Jenkins two years after he was forced to sell his hotel The Grosvenor.
Back in Torquay and alongside former colleague Alison Pennell, Mark takes on the new role of entertainment manager at the family-run Cavendish Hotel for five weeks.
It is hoped that with its leaking roof and struggling finances, Mark's unique management style and madcap ideas can help to turn the hotel's fortunes around.
Series producer Simon Kerfoot said: "Mark has been his own boss since he was 19 and now he has got to work for other people and live under their roof and rules. You can expect the odd firework. Mark goes in all guns blazing and puts his heart and soul into trying to help the family and prove himself.
"We're really excited the series is back on again, and putting The Hotel and Torquay on the map. I think people really missed the show last year."
The fly-on-the-wall show, which was watched by an average 2.8million people, has its critics. Carolyn Custerson, the chief executive of the English Riviera Tourism Company and chairman of Visit Devon, said the show has portrayed Torquay hotel standards in an 'unbalanced way which is unhelpful'.
But hotel manager Richard Blagden said: "This will, hopefully, be good for business . Anything that puts Torbay on the map is good news."
There are eight episodes in the series, starting on Sunday, December 28, at 8pm, on Channel 4.
