Trying

Name: Trying
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2020-05-01
Rating: 7.6
Cast: Rafe Spall, Esther Smith

“Together they're a family.”

2020–2026

Returning Series • 5 Seasons • 40 Episodes

Comedy

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Overview

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?

Seasons

5 listed

Status: Returning Series
Seasons: 5 seasons
Episodes: 40 episodes
First aired: May 1, 2020
Last aired: Aug 26, 2026
Network: Apple TV

Latest episode: S5 E8 WoodScott (Aug 26, 2026)

Season 1

8 episodes May 1, 2020 7.5

Series 1 starts with Nikki and Jason becoming devastated when they're told they'll never conceive a child.
Season 2

8 episodes May 21, 2021 7.9

Having been approved by the adoption panel, Nikki and Jason now find that matching with a child is not as easy as they thought...
Season 3

8 episodes Jul 22, 2022 8.3

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.
Season 4

8 episodes May 22, 2024

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.
Season 5

8 episodes Jul 8, 2026 6.8

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.