Clocking Off

Clocking Off
Genre	Drama
Created by	Paul Abbott
Written by	Paul Abbott Danny Brocklehurst Jan McVerry John Fay
Starring	Siobhan Finneran Jason Merrells Philip Glenister Lisa Millett
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	27
Production
Running time	55 minutes
Production company(s)	Red Production Company
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC One
Original run	23 January 2000 (2000-01-23) – 6 April 2003 (2003-04-06)

Clocking Off is a British television drama series which ran on the BBC One network for four series from 2000 to 2003. It was produced for the BBC by the independent Red Production Company, and created by Paul Abbott. It is currently being repeated on ITV3.

It was effectively an anthology programme, following the lives of a group of workers at a Manchester textile factory, with each episode focusing on the home life of a different character. Well-known actors who appeared in the series included Christopher Eccleston, Sophie Okonedo, Philip Glenister, John Simm, Lesley Sharp, Emma Cunniffe, Diane Parish, David Morrissey, Ricky Tomlinson, Julian Rhind-Tutt and Sarah Lancashire.

The series was highly acclaimed by the critics, winning the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 2001. However, over the course of the following two years Abbott's work on the series decreased as he moved on to other projects. Nonetheless, every series was nominated for a BAFTA and other writers such as Danny Brocklehurst, John Fay and Jan McVerry wrote successful stand-alone episodes. The programme finally ended, after a series with no Abbott scripts at all, in 2003.

Overall twenty-seven episodes were produced across the four series, and in 2004 the first series was released on DVD.

External links

• Clocking Off at bbc.co.uk
• Clocking Off at Red Production Company
• Clocking Off at the British Film Institute
• Clocking Off at the Internet Movie Database