After twenty years in the hotel business, with his reputation having been built on his repositioning of the "Plaza" and the Algonquin,[6] Melchiorri decided to bring his skills as a "business fixer" to television and sold the idea of Hotel Impossible to the Travel Channel.[5]
Each episode features a hotel with serious, sometimes near-fatal problems, that Melchiorri must deal with in less than a week. Described by the New York Times as a "capeless crusader", Melchiorri leads a team to design solutions to save the business.[7]
The pilot debuted in April 2012. The show has been renewed for its fifth season.[8][9]