The Cleaner. Paul 'Wicky' Wickstead (Greg Davies)
The Cleaner

The Cleaner

  • TV sitcom
  • BBC One
  • 2021 - 2023
  • 13 episodes (2 series)

Greg Davies stars as a crime scene cleaner in this UK adaptation of a hit German show. Also features Zita Sattar.

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Greg Davies: Writing comedy made me so angry I smashed up my flat

Greg Davies on his career, wasting 13 years of his life and working with Rik Mayall.

Chortle, 16th May 2022

Where are the new classic sitcoms?

When The One Show recently ran a poll to find the best-loved BBC shows ever, half of the top programmes were sitcoms - but none was launched within the last 15 years. So where are the future classics?

Ian Youngs, BBC, 14th May 2022

Greg Davies' The Cleaner mops up a second series for BBC One

Greg Davies sitcom The Cleaner, about a crime scene cleaner, will return for a second series on BBC One.

British Comedy Guide, 26th April 2022

Comedy.co.uk Awards 2021 shortlist

The 60 TV and radio programmes shortlisted across the 10 categories in the Comedy.co.uk Awards 2021 have been revealed. Voting is now open to determine the winners.

British Comedy Guide, 17th January 2022

David Amess death prompts BBC1 schedule changes

Have I Got News For You and The Cleaner have been pulled from BBC One's schedules tonight (Friday 15th October) following the death of David Amess MP. If the name of Amess is familiar to comedy fans it may be because he was one of the people duped into condemning the fictional drug "cake" in the Chris Morris comedy Brass Eye in the early 1990s.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 15th October 2021

A crime scene cleaner on what the job is really like

The Cleaner has been a hit with viewers, but BerkshireLive has met a real-life trauma cleaner to get the truth about the what the job is like.

Hannah Roberts, Reading Post, 6th October 2021

TV review: The Cleaner, BBC One

Do give it a go, but it is best to start out with a very open mind.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th September 2021

Aidan Smith's TV week: The Scotts, The Cleaner

Where, if it's all happy families now, does The Scotts go from here? Don't know, but I think it'll be fun finding out.

Aidan Smith, The Scotsman, 11th September 2021

Review: The Cleaner

In Man Down, he created one of the most stupidly funny - and underrated - sitcoms of recent times. But Greg Davies new BBC One project, The Cleaner, is - ironically enough - a messier mix of laughs and drama.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 10th September 2021

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