Our Scottish Hotel follows the Murrays' Cromlix revamp
A three-part Channel 4 series tracks Andy and Kim Murray's year-long renovation of their Dunblane hotel, including two new restaurants.
Our Scottish Hotel, a three-part Channel 4 series following Andy and Kim Murray's renovation of their Cromlix hotel in Dunblane, was announced on 27 October, built around a five-month closure and two new restaurants.
The series was filmed over one year and follows the couple and their roughly 80-strong staff through the building project, The Caterer reports. Kim Murray has run Cromlix since the tennis player bought the Victorian country house hotel in 2013.
Channel 4 commissioning editor Emily Shields described the series as a rare, intimate look at a business where no detail is overlooked, framing it as a workplace documentary rather than a renovation makeover format built around reveals.
An 80-strong staff list makes better television than a reveal shot of new wallpaper ever could.
A new direction for the kitchen
Kim Murray said the past couple of years brought big change at Cromlix and that she wanted to document the personal stories behind it, alongside her own process of shaping the building and estate into a working Scottish business.
The renovation adds two new restaurants to the hotel and what Kim Murray called "a totally new direction for fine dining and wellness," though neither the series nor The Caterer's report names the chefs or sets an opening date for the new kitchens.
Andy Murray is credited as part of the project throughout, though the published account carries no direct quote from him, with Kim Murray fronting the restaurant and hospitality side of the coverage.
Staff, not just stone and plaster
The series' focus on the 80-strong team marks it out from standard hotel-renovation formats, which tend to centre on owners and designers rather than the kitchen porters, housekeepers and front-of-house staff who keep a five-star property running during a closure.
No UK air date has been confirmed beyond the announcement, which lands in a year when Scottish hotel groups such as Crerar have been listed for sale and Edinburgh bars like Panda & Sons have pulled global attention north. Cromlix's own relaunch, once dated, will test whether the Murrays' name travels as well to television as it has to tennis.
