Not Safe For Work. Katherine (Zawe Ashton). Copyright: Clerkenwell Films
Not Safe For Work

Not Safe For Work

  • TV comedy drama
  • Channel 4
  • 2015
  • 6 episodes (1 series)

Channel 4 comedy drama about a group of highly dysfunctional civil servants forced to relocate from London to Northampton. Stars Zawe Ashton, Sacha Dhawan, Jo Hartley, Tom Weston-Jones, Sophie Rundle and more.

Character guide

Not Safe For Work. Katherine (Zawe Ashton). Copyright: Clerkenwell Films

Katherine

Played by: Zawe Ashton

Katherine is an accomplished policy advisor, reluctantly relocated from Whitehall to Northampton as part of the public spending cuts.

She's a mercurial and complex young woman. Haunted by the traumatic collapse of her marriage, she often finds herself escaping into her work. She's passionate about what she does, helping people who need it most.

Not Safe For Work. Danny (Sacha Dhawan). Copyright: Clerkenwell Films

Danny

Played by: Sacha Dhawan

Danny is the head of the Immigration Pathway, having mysteriously jumped several pay grades.

Danny is an unpredictable, perma-wasted chancer, who has allowed his colleagues to believe he's a devout, knowledgeable Muslim, but deep down he's a lost boy in need of some serious guidance.

Not Safe For Work. Angela (Jo Hartley). Copyright: Clerkenwell Films

Angela

Played by: Jo Hartley

Angela is Danny's feisty PA. She's a terrible influence on Danny, forever leading him astray on binges in her own inimitable quasi-maternal / quasi-sexual way.

Not Safe For Work. Anthony (Tom Weston-Jones). Copyright: Clerkenwell Films

Anthony

Played by: Tom Weston-Jones

A smart, very capable civil servant with a penchant for controlling women.

Anthony is a romantic at heart, but his dreams of one day building a home and a happy family are continuously trampled on by his kryptonite Katherine, with whom he has a dysfunctional ongoing on/off affair.

Not Safe For Work. Jenny (Sophie Rundle). Copyright: Clerkenwell Films

Jenny

Played by: Sophie Rundle

An administrator who has literally never left Northampton, Jenny is very naïve.

She's a ball of energy with a relentlessly sunny disposition that hides a profound vulnerability.

Not Safe For Work. Nathanial (Samuel Barnett). Copyright: Clerkenwell Films

Nathanial

Played by: Samuel Barnett

Nathanial is an eager and impressionable young civil servant.

He's not particularly good at his job, but he's well-meaning. Unfortunately this is more often than not to his detriment as people tend to take advantage of his good nature.

Not Safe For Work. Jeffries (Anastasia Hille). Copyright: Clerkenwell Films

Jeffries

Played by: Anastasia Hille

An experienced human resources manager, Jeffries is sent in to appraise the Immigration Pathway's productivity and cut jobs.

She's a woman just about holding it together, practically always on the verge of a nervous breakdown. This is due to her managing the pressures of work with a volatile wild child son at home and the almost complete breakdown of her relationship with her daughter.

Not Safe For Work. Martine (Sian Brooke). Copyright: Clerkenwell Films

Martine

Played by: Sian Brooke

The minister's closest advisor, Martine is sent in from London to scrutinise the team's policy plans.

Martine is a fiercely ambitious career woman with no real interest in pursuing a fulfilled personal life. Estranged from her mother, Martine has learnt over the years to suppress any signs of emotional weakness and as such presents a rather convincing steely, no-nonsense exterior.

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