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Cleaning Up

Cleaning Up | Wednesday 9th January | ITV Cleaning Up stars Sheridan Smith as Sam, an office cleaner who is struggling to maintain her life as a devoted mum as her debt and her addiction to online gambling spiral out of control. Whilst at work Sam realises she has access to lucrative stock market information that could be the answer to all her prayers and she starts to turn the tables on the system that has cheated her, navigating the dark and dangerous world of insider trading.

The characterful drama focuses on an ordinary working class woman, Sam, who is caught between two worlds - the everyday life of a devoted and loving Mum and the darker, dangerous world of insider trading. Sassy office cleaner Sam is one of an invisible army of cleaners on a zero hours contract who mop, sweep and vacuum in the early hours. Struggling with an on-line gambling addiction, Sam realises she has access to lucrative Stock Market information which if used correctly could be the answer to all her prayers. Set in the contrasting worlds of shiny Canary Wharf and the realities of modern suburbia, Cleaning Up, explores how far Sam will go to survive, claw back some self-respect and get her life back on track.