A Life of Grime — Season 7

It's time to get low down and dirty Stateside as the filth-focused series meets the unsung heroes of the Big Apple who keep the streets clean, the restaurants healthy and the five boroughs free of rats and roaches.

The Bronx breeds tough rats - can health inspector Robert Champion live up to his name? Food inspector Gifty closes a curry house, crime-scene cleaner Ron has gruesome messes to deal with and sanitation officer Gayle fines litterbugs.

When a woman's flat resembles a giant litter box, animal warden Mike Pastore has to take her cats away. But can he catch them? Plus the hunt in stinking rubbish for a chequebook.

Master of disaster Ron Alford must clean an apartment for a blind singer before her husband gets home from hospital. In Harlem, rat-catcher George is more afraid of the rats than they are of him. And in Brooklyn, Gail fearlessly pursues anyone who litters the sidewalk.

It's time once again to get low down and dirty Stateside as the filth-focused series meets the unsung heroes of the Big Apple who keep the streets clean, the restaurants healthy and the five boroughs free of rats and roaches.

Cleaning up after a murder and a suicide is a tough job for crime scene expert Ron Godspodowski , especially in 100-degree heat. Rat-catchers George and Charlotte wage war on vermin, and in the Bronx Mike Pastore has to deal with some very scary dogs.

Rat droppings discovered beneath the sushi bar could spell closure for a fashionable restaurant in Manhattan's financial district. Meanwhile, a garbage dumpster comes under investigation as the Big Apple's toxic cops search for radioactive waste.

With no family or money to pay for his burial, the body of a man has been held in the morgue for over a month. The corpse is rescued from fridge purgatory by a kind-hearted funeral director, but then confusion over the burial leads to a delay in the searing heat of July.