A&E is a cable network that focuses on some hard realities and subjects, and that includes drug addiction. They have one Emmy winning show called Intervention. The show takes you through the life of a drug addict who does not know they will soon be facing an intervention during the show.
Now A&E has come up with “The Cleaner” starring Benjamin Bratt . The show focuses on a real life extreme interventionist played by Bratt. In the series Bratt plays the character William “The Cleaner” Banks. Banks himself is in recovery and changes his life after the birth of his daughter. He and his team go around performing extreme interventions. The interventions that are performed are very unconventional. The show is the first scripted series for A&E channel.
The show is going into its second season on June 23, 2009. The show has had mixed reviews for its first season but A&E decided to give it a boot into sophomore year to see what the scripted drama could come up with.
Their reality show Intervention is a gripping one and it seems like the network is trying to recreate the same type of drama in a scripted series. Although, it is really hard to recreate the real life drug addiction seen on Intervention. It is truly heartbreaking.
Now it is worth noting that the interventions you see on “The Cleaner” are very extreme and no the traditional intervention. Those interventions seen on the reality program “Intervention” are using the more traditional approach to get addicts into addiction treatment centers.
Both shows are equally entertaining and it’s nice to have new stuff to watch during the summer. But beware that the shows both deal with very heavy issues. Whether you go the reality route or not it shows what drug addiction can do to a person. And it’s very heart wrenching to watch at times.

A&E is a cable network that focuses on some hard realities and subjects, and that includes drug addiction. They have one Emmy winning show called Intervention. The show takes you through the life of a drug addict who does not know they will soon be facing an intervention during the show.
Now A&E has come up with “The Cleaner” starring Benjamin Bratt . The show focuses on a real life extreme interventionist played by Bratt. In the series Bratt plays the character William “The Cleaner” Banks. Banks himself is in recovery and changes his life after the birth of his daughter. He and his team go around performing extreme interventions. The interventions that are performed are very unconventional. The show is the first scripted series for A&E channel.
The show is going into its second season on June 23, 2009. The show has had mixed reviews for its first season but A&E decided to give it a boot into sophomore year to see what the scripted drama could come up with.
Their reality show Intervention is a gripping one and it seems like the network is trying to recreate the same type of drama in a scripted series. Although, it is really hard to recreate the real life drug addiction seen on Intervention. It is truly heartbreaking.
Now it is worth noting that the interventions you see on “The Cleaner” are very extreme and no the traditional intervention. Those interventions seen on the reality program “Intervention” are using the more traditional approach to get addicts into addiction treatment centers.
Both shows are equally entertaining and it’s nice to have new stuff to watch during the summer. But beware that the shows both deal with very heavy issues. Whether you go the reality route or not it shows what drug addiction can do to a person. And it’s very heart wrenching to watch at times.