Cleaning Up | |
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Genre | Drama |
Created by | Mark Marlow |
Written by | Mark Marlow |
Directed by | Lewis Arnold |
Starring |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Executive producers | Jane Featherstone Chris Fry |
Producer | Karen Lewis |
Cinematography | Ollie Downey |
Running time | 60 minutes (inc. adverts) |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 9 January – 13 February 2019 |
Related | |
Cleaning Up (South Korean adaptation) |
Cleaning Up is a British television drama series written and created by Mark Marlow. The six-part series premiered on ITV on 9 January 2019. It stars Sheridan Smith as Sam, a single mother and office cleaner who resorts to insider trading in order to pay her debts. [1] [2]
Sam Cook is a cleaner at Kramer Lowe, a financial company in Canary Wharf. Struggling to get by on her zero-hour contract with contractor Xenco Clean, she is drowning in debt, addicted to gambling, and faces her ex-husband trying to get full-time custody of their two daughters. After overhearing a stockbroker who is being blackmailed into insider trading, she plunges herself into a shady world of finance.
Marlow, who had no previous credits in television, had been struggling to get an original series produced. Inspired by Oliver Stone's Wall Street, he developed a script around office cleaners, who are often unnoticed. The script was eventually passed onto Featherstone, who commissioned the programme. [3]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date [4] | U.K. viewers (millions) [5] |
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1 | "Episode 1" | Lewis Arnold | Mark Marlow | January 9, 2019 | 8.68 |
2 | "Episode 2" | Lewis Arnold | Mark Marlow | January 16, 2019 | 7.69 |
3 | "Episode 3" | Lewis Arnold | Mark Marlow | January 23, 2019 | 6.98 |
4 | "Episode 4" | Lewis Arnold | Mark Marlow | January 30, 2019 | 6.51 |
5 | "Episode 5" | Robert McKillop | Mark Marlow | February 6, 2019 | 6.47 |
6 | "Episode 6" | Robert McKillop | Mark Marlow | February 13, 2019 | 6.61 |
The first episode of Cleaning Up received three out of five stars from The Guardian 's Lucy Mangan, who was critical of weak story development but complimentary of the concept and actors, writing that "... overall, this is the kind of solid, well-made nonsense that is such a rare and precious joy. Indispensable to it are the actors, who throw themselves uncynically into it with their whole hearts. This is always Smith's greatest gift, and here she is surrounded by a supporting cast doing likewise." [6]
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