Trying

Trying is a comedy series about the struggles Jason and Nikki experience in their journey to become parents. Struggling with conceiving a child but desperate to have one, they decide to adopt only to discover that the process brings with it a whole new list of new challenges. The series is about growing up, settling down, and finding someone to love.

The series is written and created by Andy Wolton, directed by Jim O'Hanlon, has Chris Sussman and Emma Lawson as its executive producers, and stars Rafe Spall, Esther Smith, BAFTA Award winner Imelda Staunton, Ophelia Lovibond, and Oliver Chris as its main characters.

As of May 1, 2020, the complete first season of Trying is streaming globally on Apple TV+.

Official summary
''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?''

Premise
Desperate to become parents but unable to conceive, Nikki and Jason decide to look into the adoption process. It's a decision that leads them to question everything in their life, from their their cookbooks of choice to their compatibility as a couple. They are plagues by questions the big questions such as "Are they ready to be parents?" and, if they would be so luck to be able to adapt a child, "When will the child feel like 'theirs'?" as well as the more trivial ones, "Can they return the obscenely expensive hand soap they bought to impress their case worker?"

Credits
Written by:
 * Andy Wolton

Directed by:
 * Jim O'Hanlon

Starring:
 * Rafe Spall as Jason
 * Esther Smith as Nikki
 * Imelda Staunton as Penny
 * Ophelia Lovibond as Erica
 * Oliver Chris as Freddy

Also starring: TBA

Soundtrack
he composers took a novel approach when tackling the soundtrack of this comedy series, as they took their incidental music from each episode and crafted originals songs from there, resulting in bittersweet and gently stirring tunes.

The soundtrack is available to stream/download on Apple Music/iTunes. It features 10 songs and is 32 minutes long.

Development
First news about the collaboration between Apple Inc. and the BBC's commercial arm, BBC Studios, to create a new comedy series came on July 12, 2019. By then, production was already well underway, and the release of the series was set to be sometime in 2020. The working title Alabama was officially retired on January 19, 2020, when Apple Inc. formerly announced in a press release that the official title of the new series was Trying.