{"id":4218,"date":"2021-09-10T18:00:12","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/?p=1347208"},"modified":"2021-09-10T18:58:08","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T16:58:08","slug":"the-cleaner-star-greg-davies-hints-at-series-2-plans-its-limitless","status":"publish","type":"rss_feed","link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/rss_feed\/the-cleaner-star-greg-davies-hints-at-series-2-plans-its-limitless\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cleaner star Greg Davies hints at series 2 plans: \u201cIt\u2019s limitless\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"rssexcerpt\"> &#8220;I don&#8217;t want to tempt fate, but I would love to continue with it.&#8221; <\/p><p class=\"rssauthor\">By Patrick Cremona\n                \t\t<\/p><p class=\"rssbyline\">Published: Friday, 10 September 2021 at 12:00 am<\/p><hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n\n<p>Greg Davies\u2019 brand new sitcom <a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/tv\/comedy\/the-cleaner-release-date\/&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot;\">The Cleaner<\/a> debuts on BBC One tonight \u2013 and the Taskmaster star is already looking towards the possibility of a second season.<\/p>\n<p>Based on the German series Der Tatortreiniger, the show sees Davies star as Paul \u2018Wicky\u2019 Wickstead, a crime scene cleaner who encounters a range of eccentric characters while carrying out his day job.<\/p> <p>And speaking to <strong><a href=\"\/\/www.radiotimes.com\/&quot;\" rel=\"&quot;noopener&quot;\">RadioTimes.com<\/a><\/strong> and other press at a Q&amp;A ahead of the series launch, Davies teased that the potential for future episodes was \u201climitless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the scope for this show, of taking on difficult subjects, is one of the things that really excites me about it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd by putting in a straightforward, compassionate person as the connecting individual, I think it\u2019s limitless where we could go with it and the things we could discuss, things that we could put his innocent eyes on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, you know, I don\u2019t want to tempt fate, but I would love to continue with it,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd Mizzi [Meyer, writer of the original German version] made it very clear that she\u2019d be happy for us to, you know, much like other shows have done, to go off on our own trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Davies continued that the first series already hints at Wicky\u2019s past, and he said he would love to explore the character\u2019s history even more in future instalments while also \u201cexposing him to increasingly challenging things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very excited by him,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd I hope people will be excited to see where he\u2019s going to end up each week.\u201d<\/p>\n<section class=\"&quot;template-article__editor-content\"><section class=\"&quot;template-article__editor-content\"><section class=\"&quot;template-article__editor-content\"><strong>The Cleaner begins on BBC One on Friday 10th September at 9.30pm. 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