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Trying

Created by Andy Wolton

2020–present

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?

First aired
1 May 2020
Episode length
28 min
Also known as
Alabama, מנסים
Country
United Kingdom
Language
English
Writers
Andy Wolton, Fay Rusling, James Wood, Oriane Messina
Cinematography
Arthur Mulhern, Greg Duffield, Jonas Mortensen
Music
Guy Garvey, Paul Saunderson, Peter Jobson
Editors
Andy Kinnear, Emma Collins, Joe Randall-Cutler and 5 others
Executive producers
Andy Wolton, Chris Sussman, Esther Smith and 4 others
Producers
Chris Sussman, Emma Lawson, Sam Pinnell, Tim Mannion
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Seasons · 40 episodes

  • Season 1

    2020

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

  • Season 2

    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

    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

    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

    2026

    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.

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