Cleaner knotting a rope in TV series (4,5)
I believe the answer is:
soap opera
'tv series' is the definition.
(I've seen this before)
'cleaner knotting a rope' is the wordplay.
'cleaner' becomes 'soap' (soap is a kind of cleaner).
'knotting' is an anagram indicator (I've seen 'knotted' mean this).
'a'+'rope'='arope'
'arope' is an anagram of 'opera'.
'soap'+'opera'='SOAP-OPERA'
'in' acts as a link.
(Other definitions for soap opera that I've seen before include "TV serial such as Coronation Street" , "that might involve The Woolpack?" , "Fair City or Coronation Street, say" , "Melodramatic TV serial" , "Eg, Coronation Street" .)