Clocking Off 2

Series created by
Paul Abbott

Written by
Paul Abbott (episodes 1, 3, 6, 7)
Jan McVerry (episode 2)
John Fay (episode 4)
Daniel Brocklehurst (episode 5)

Producer
Juliet Charlesworth

Executive Producers
Nicola Shindler (Red Productions)
Gareth Neame (BBC)

How much do you really know about the people you work with?

Following the enormous success of the first series, Paul Abbott's award-winning drama returns to the Manchester textile factory to unpick the fabric of the bosses' and workers' private lives.

Their jobs may be mundane, but their personal lives are filled with incident. The series is a patchwork of colourful stories, including a suspected paedophile, problem stepchildren, child-snatching, a mercenary girlfriend, a hijack, a knifing and tangled relationships. In each stand-alone episode, one of the characters comes to the fore while the others fade into the background.

The factory setting only serves to heighten the characters' dilemmas. They bottle up difficulties so as not to lose face in front of friends and colleagues, and then sometimes the pressure gets too great and they explode.

Clocking Off is by one of Britain's foremost television writers and has a strong ensemble cast, including Ricky Tomlinson (The Royle Family), Lindsey Coulson (EastEnders), Philip Glenister (Roger Roger), Lesley Sharp (The Full Monty) and Jason Merrells (Casualty).