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British television series
| Cleaning Up
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 Promotional poster
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| Genre
| Drama
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| Created by
| Mark Marlow
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| Written by
| Mark Marlow
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| Directed by
| Lewis Arnold
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| Starring
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| Country of origin
| United Kingdom
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| Original language
| English
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| No.
of series
| 1
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| No.
of episodes
| 6
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| Executive producers
| Jane Featherstone
Chris Fry
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| Producer
| Karen Lewis
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| Cinematography
| Ollie Downey
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| Running time
| 60 minutes (inc. adverts)
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| Network
| ITV
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| Release
| 9 January
(
2019-01-09
)
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13 February 2019
(
2019-02-13
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| Cleaning Up
(South Korean adaptation)
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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.
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Plot
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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.
Cast
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- Sheridan Smith
as Sam Cook, a cleaner for Xenco Clean
- Jade Anouka
as Jess, Sam's friend and colleague
- Kristy Philipps as Alice Cook, Sam and Dave's 15-year-old daughter
- Doc Brown
as Blake, a Kramer Lowe stockbroker engaging in
insider trading
- Uriel Emil
as Viktor, Sam's boss at Xenco Clean
- Robert Emms
as Glynn, a lodger at Sam's house
- Branka Kati?
as Mina, a cleaner for Xenco Clean
- Neil Maskell
as Warren, a
debt collector
Sam owes money
- Anya McKenna-Bruce as Lily Cook, Sam and Dave's 8-year-old daughter
- Matthew McNulty
as Dave Cook, Sam's ex-husband
- Hero Fiennes-Tiffin
as Jake, Alice's boyfriend
- Rosie Cavaliero
as Frances Howard, Head of Compliance for Kramer Lowe
- Lloyd Owen
as Dominic Swanson, a corporate lawyer blackmailing Blake
- Angela Wynter
as Amber, Jess's mother and cafe owner
- Milanka Brooks
as Daniela, a cleaner for Xenco Clean
- Con O'Neill
as Graham, CEO of Westavaris Incorporated, and head of the insider trading network
Production
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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.
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Episodes
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Reception
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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."
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