The Cleaner: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Paul ‘Wicky' Wickstead, is a state-certified cleaning technician with a very special field of work: as a crime scene cleaner he is responsible for the removal of any signs of death.

Wicky works for Shropshire-based cleaning contractors Lausen and is usually found, together with his baby-blue pickup truck, at crime scenes after the police have concluded their detective work.

Armed with chemicals, scrubbing brushes and cleaning rags, Wicky removes the gruesome mess at the scene of the crime. When carrying out his duties, he stumbles across the strangest of people: from the victim's relatives, employers, neighbours and acquaintances, to occasionally even the murderers themselves. And because he's a sociable type, he sometimes gossips more than he cleans

Series details

• Title: The Cleaner
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Crime
• Premiere date: 2021-09-10
• Status in TVmaze: To Be Determined
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: BBC iPlayer
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 29 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.2/10
• TVMaze ID: 49930
• IMDb ID: tt12994356
• TVDB ID: 387642

Cast and credited roles

• Greg Davies — Paul Wickstead

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2021-09-10; final listed air date 2022-12-23; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2023-03-24; final listed air date 2023-03-24; episode order: 6.
• Season 3: premiered 2024-10-04; final listed air date 2024-10-04; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Cleaner on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.