Airdate: Cleaning Up
Sheridan Smith stars as a separated mother and office cleaner who resorts to insider trading to get ahead.
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Seven will screen UK drama series Cleaning Up on Friday nights from next week.
The series stars Sheridan Smith (Cilla, Black Work, Mrs Biggs) as a separated mother and office cleaner who resorts to insider trading to get ahead.
The 6 part series was generally well-received when it screened in the UK in January.
Sam (Sheridan Smith) is a struggling mum with an online gambling addiction, desperately trying to keep her life together after separating from her husband. With her ex, Dave (Matthew McNulty), threatening to take her daughters away, Sam wants to prove she’s a dependable parent to her two daughters, Alice and Lily. But getting back on track looks impossible for Sam with spiraling debts and having to a work zero-hour contract on the minimum wage as a cleaner in Canary Wharf making Sam’s life is thrown into disarray when she discovers access to lucrative and illegal stock market information at the office she cleans. Realising this could be the answer to her prayers, Sam starts delving into the high-stakes world of the stock market. Persuading her best friend Jess to come in on the secret, the two cleaners start to navigate dangerous new territory.
8:30pm Friday March 15 on Seven.
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- Tagged with Black Work, Cilla, Cleaning Up, Mrs Biggs
3 Responses
Shame it is on Seven, ruined with many ads, would have been a perfect fit for ABC
It aired in the UK with ads.
This was something of a hit for ITV in the UK, so I’m looking forward to checking it out. Sheridan Smith can usually be relied on to put in a good turn whatever she turns her hand to.