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 |
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Ratings: | TVMaze: 7.4/10 | |
Released: | September 10, 2021 | |
Genres: | Drama Crime Comedy | |
AKA: | Crime Scene Cleaner | |
Countries: | United Kingdom | |
Companies: | Studio Hamburg BBC iPlayer | |
Cast: | Greg Davies | |
Crew: | Ben Caudell Greg Davies Alex Moody Sam Ward Paul Herbert Sarah Fraser Marc Cass Samuel Karl Bohn Jim Dowdall Tom Hatt Vivien Muller-Rommel | |
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excited to see this pop up in my schedule! i love this quirky show. didn’t think it was doing well enough for a third season viewership wise. don’t know anyone that’s ever heard of it. i’m ready for friday!
Me too, great show. Greg Davies is fantastic, his style of intelligent, dark humor is my buzz.
Wow. Great show. If you’ve found yourself down here looking for an opinion, just watch it. This is some good shit. Can’t wait for more.
Thanks for posting all the links, greatly appreciated
“The Crime Scene Cleaner (German: Der Tatortreiniger) is a German comedy TV series broadcast by the NDR/ARD, starring Bjarne Mädel as the title protagonist. It was directed by Arne Feldhusen and written by Mizzi Meyer. The show was broadcast from 2011 until 2018, spanning 31 episodes over seven series. Crime Scene Cleaner can be described as a mixture of chamber play, sitcom and comedy of manners.
Plot
Bjarne Mädel plays the crime scene cleaner Heiko “Schotty” Schotte. He works as a facility cleaner (specialized on crime scenes) whose job it is to remove the last traces of the living, in and around Hamburg. It is not a crime thriller nor detective story, it rather takes a closer look at the work of the crime scene cleaner in a humorous way, where the criminal cases have a rather subordinate importance. The main focus is laid on scenes which mirror the style of a chamber play. Those scenes are garnished with situational humour, which results from Schotty’s interaction with the spouses, acquaintances of the victim or in some cases even with the ghost of the one victim. In multiple episodes Schotty’s deep connection to the soccer team Hamburger SV is either briefly mentioned, or partially becomes the in-depth subject of the conversation.
Foreign broadcasting
After the Video-on-Demand rights were already sold to Canal+ in France in the autumn of 2013, the Studio Hamburg sold the rights for broadcasting and DVD-Releases to the American television station MHz Network. Since 5 December 2014, the network aired season 1 and 2 of the show under the title Crime Scene Cleaner in the original German soundtrack with English subtitles. The episodes 1 to 10 were released on DVD on 27 January 2015.
An adaptation for BBC One titled The Cleaner starring Greg Davies was broadcast in 2021, with Helena Bonham Carter, David Mitchell, Ruth Madeley and Stephanie Cole as guest actors.” (wikipedia)
The German original is a funny, witty, quirky, and sometimes philosophical and deep show that is well written and extremely entertaining. The main character and guests actors are exceptional. I recommend watching the original if you can deal with subtitles.
never watched this but i like greg davis i will have to give it a try
Wathched the first two episodes. Despite the best efforts of the wonderful Helena Bonham Carpenter and David Mitchell, the sad fact remains Greg Davies isn’t nearly as funny as he thinks he is. A vanity project which, for all our sakes, would have been better left on Mr Davies’s coffee table. 1/5 *
See my top level comment for more info. I loved the German show and I am still trying to at least like the version from BBC. Oh well.