Clocking Off (BBC1)

Well, viewers including myself are certainly not clocking off from this show. It attracts millions of viewers, with its gritty storylines, and spotlights on individulas in each episode. It all focuses on workers in a Manchester factory, and their lives outside work. Different characters are profiled each week, and we get to see more about their situations, and who their friends are, what problems they have, and it is usually very dramatic. The last series was excellent, with stories such as paedophilia, love triangles, families being out under the strain, and a stabbing. Each episode is very pacy, and viewers are plunges straight in at the deep end. ...  Read the complete review

What really goes on in a factory? If you're a snotty middle-class kid like me, you'll never know unless you have the incentive to work nights over summer for a horrid pay. But by cobbling together all those images you pick up from various places, you imagine a smelly, loud hall, crammed with people and machinery, and nobody really enjoys what they're doing. It's quite possible; after all, it's only a job. But, as with any collection of people, there is such a widespread of personalities, histories and crises. Clocking Off is an ingenious series that brings together all these different people, united originally only through their place of work, and ...  Read the complete review