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  • Jan 9, 2019

Summary Sam Cook (Sheridan Smith) works as a cleaner at a London financial firm where she overhears a conversation about insider trading. With the help of her friend Jess (Jade Anouka), she takes advantage of the information to pay off her gambling debts in this British drama written by Mark Marlow. [Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 9...

Created By: Mark Marlow

  • ITV
  • Jan 9, 2019
  • ITV
  • Jan 9, 2019
Cleaning Up
Season 1
Season Premiere: Jan 9, 2019
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Summary Sam Cook (Sheridan Smith) works as a cleaner at a London financial firm where she overhears a conversation about insider trading. With the help of her friend Jess (Jade Anouka), she takes advantage of the information to pay off her gambling debts in this British drama written by Mark Marlow. [Premiered originally in the UK on ITV on 9...

Created By: Mark Marlow

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Episode 1 • Jan 9, 2019 • 46 m
Episode #1.1
Struggling mum Sam is trying to turn her life around, she takes a job as a cleaner in the City of London where she stumbles upon lucrative and illegal stock market information which throws her life into disarray.
Episode 2 • Jan 16, 2019
Episode #1.2
Sam's money-making plan starts to bear fruit, but it's not long before complications arise. The listening device is discovered cutting off the source of information leading Sam to enlist the help of fellow cleaner Mina for a risky scam.
Episode 3 • Jan 23, 2019 • 46 m
Episode #1.3
Sam and Jess are interrogated by the firm's compliance team and Jess admits to Sam that she's made a shocking discovery about Blake. Alice learns more about her parents' separation and her mother's gambling addiction.
Episode 4 • Jan 30, 2019 • 45 m
Episode #1.4
Sam promises Swanny that she can fill Blake's shoes, meaning she has to acquire secret information about an upcoming property deal and rope in the help of Jess and Mina for their biggest scam yet - but things don't go to plan.
Episode 5 • Feb 6, 2019 • 46 m
Episode #1.5
Swanny entrusts Sam to make a large investment for him and she goes to great lengths to pull off the risky task. As Sam revels in her new persona Dave notices the change in her and Glynn discovers Sam is still in financial strife.
Episode 6 • Feb 13, 2019 • 46 m
Episode #1.6
As Sam risks losing everything, she faces the disastrous consequences of her actions. Running out of options, Sam must confront the network of insider traders.

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60
Dec 21, 2020
There is not quite enough story – there’s a lot of Sam staring into mirrors as she cleans them, and it takes her and Jess for ever in TV terms to do very little preparation for their sort-of heist, when it could have borne a much greater weight of fun-and-not-wholly-plausible-IRL detail, in accordance with the long-proved truism that the viewing public loves “how-tos” – but, overall, this is the kind of solid, well-made nonsense that is such a rare and precious joy.
By Lucy Mangan FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 21, 2020
The script is the first by Mark Marlow. It’s not perfect, but Smith is never less than watchable. And after this first episode the temptation for another flutter may be hard to resist.
By Jasper Rees FULL REVIEW
60
Dec 21, 2020
You can’t help rooting for them in the absurd scene where Sam balances on a desk to plants a microphone in the ceiling of the insider dealer’s office and cheering as their £50 investment blooms into £500.
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40
Dec 21, 2020
It's an entertaining concept, but much of it was laughably unlikely.
By Carol Midgley FULL REVIEW

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