In 1989, she was cast as Queenie in the long running BBC series "Making Out", set in a Manchester electronics factory and written by Debbie Horsfield. The show ran for three series. In 1991, she returned to presenting, this time on the late night ITV show "The Good Sex Guide" which gained an audience figures of 13 million. She received a Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for "Best Female Presenter" in 1994. A second series and third series followed. the last entitled "The Good Sex Guide Abroad". Clarke turned down an offer to take the series into a late night chat show format, the host eventually being Toyah Willcox.