I hope you like Greg Davies as much as I do because there is going to be no escaping from this man of many hats onscreen this autumn. He is already presiding over Taskmaster season 18, the most unique game show on TV on Thursday nights on C4. He is also about to return in the quizmaster's chair on Sky Max's Never Mind The Buzzcocks on October 16. And now on he is wearing his sitcom hat in The Cleaner season 3, which is available as a box set on BBC iPlayer and is airing on BBC One on Friday nights.
The Cleaner — also written by the star and loosely inspired by a hit German comedy called Der Tatortreiniger is something of a departure for Davies. After making a memorable breakout splash as the head Mr Gilbert in The Inbetweeners the former real-life teacher has fronted sitcoms before, but nothing like this one. Both Man Down and Cuckoo traded on Davies' talent for capturing a kind of manic haplessness, with him usually at the centre of chaos if not actually creating the chaos himself.
