Trying
“Together they're a family.”
- 2020 –2026
- Returning series
- TV-14
★ 7.6 TMDB Rating · 143 votes
All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they're ready to be parents?
- Created by
- Andy Wolton
- Seasons
- 5
- Episodes
- 40
- First aired
- May 1, 2020
- Networks
- Apple TV
- Original language
- English
- Origin
- United Kingdom
Cast of Trying
Where to Stream Trying by Country
- United States
- Streaming on Apple TV+
- United Kingdom
- Streaming on Apple TV+, BBC iPlayer
- India
- Streaming on Apple TV+
- Canada
- Streaming on Apple TV+
- Australia
- Streaming on Apple TV+
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Seasons
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Season 1
May 1, 2020
8 episodes
Series 1 starts with Nikki and Jason becoming devastated when they're told they'll never conceive a child.
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Season 2
May 21, 2021
8 episodes
Having been approved by the adoption panel, Nikki and Jason now find that matching with a child is not as easy as they thought...
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Season 3
Jul 22, 2022
8 episodes
Nikki and Jason wake up as new parents to two children they are still getting to know. Now they just have to keep hold of them, which proves to be trickier than they initially thought. Thrown straight into the parental deep end, Nikki and Jason’s relationships with each other and with their nearest and dearest are tested as they desperately try to navigate the ups and downs of parenting — while hanging onto their kids, and their sanity.
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Season 4
May 22, 2024
8 episodes
We fast-forward six years to discover that Nikki and Jason are experienced adopters who have built a lovely little nuclear family, enriched by an extraordinary support network. However, as their teenage daughter, Princess, starts to yearn for a connection with her birth mother, Nikki and Jason find themselves confronted with the ultimate test of their parenting skills.
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Season 5
Jul 8, 2026
8 episodes
Nikki and Jason find themselves dealing with the consequences of Princess and Tyler's biological mother Kat turning up at their doorstep, and the whirlwind of chaos she brings into their settled family life.
