Cleaning Up is a British television drama series written and created by Mark Marlow.

It stars Sheridan Smith as Sam, a single mother and office cleaner who resorts to insider trading in order to pay her debts.

Struggling to get by on her zero-hour contract with contractor Xenco Clean, she is drowning in debt, addicted to gambling, and faces her ex-husband trying to get full-time custody of their two daughters.

Inspired by Oliver Stone's Wall Street, he developed a script around office cleaners, who are often unnoticed.

[3] The first episode of Cleaning Up received three out of five stars from The Guardian's Lucy Mangan, who was critical of weak story development but complimentary of the concept and actors, writing that "... overall, this is the kind of solid, well-made nonsense that is such a rare and precious joy.