Trying (2020)
Older not wiser.
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?
- Andy WoltonCreator
StatusReturning Series
TypeScripted
Original LanguageEnglish
Network
Seasons
Season 1
2020 | 8 Episodes
Season 1 of Trying premiered on May 1, 2020
Series 1 starts with Nikki and Jason becoming devastated when they're told they'll never conceive a child.
Season 2
2021 | 8 Episodes
Season 2 of Trying premiered on May 21, 2021
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
2022 | 8 Episodes
Season 3 of Trying premiered on July 22, 2022
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
2024 | 8 Episodes
Season 4 of Trying premiered on 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.
Casts
Rafe Spall
Jason
Esther Smith
Nikki
Scarlett Rayner
Princess
Cooper Turner
Tyler