Although Apple TV is known as the prestige television streamer, with dramas like Severance, Pluribus, and Silo among its most recognizable titles, the platform also plays host to a fair few feel-good comedies. Chief among those is Ted Lasso — following Jason Sudeikis‘s ever-positive American football coach — which is set to return for Season 4 on August 5. Bill Lawrence‘s other hit series, Shrinking, has also brought plenty of warmth as it explored a grieving therapist learning how to find acceptance and move forward after his wife’s tragic death. Compared to those two, however, the sitcom Trying has flown a bit under the radar despite plenty of critical acclaim and a fifth season on the way.
Trying premiered in 2020 and has since followed the ever-evolving parenting journey of Nikki (Esther Smith) and Jason (Rafe Spall). Unable to have children, they spent the show’s early seasons trying to adopt and facing a whole mess of unexpected challenges along the way, from dealing with their chaotic friends and family to jumping through hoops to show they are ready for the responsibility of starting a family. They now have a son named Tyler (Cooper Turner) and a daughter named Princess (Scarlett Rayner), and, after a six-year time skip ahead of Season 4, they began wrestling with a new phase of life, with their kids becoming teenagers and facing further trials. With the arrival of Princess and Tyler’s birth mother, Kat (Charlotte Riley), in the season finale back in 2024, however, the couple’s lives are about to be thrown for a loop that they never could’ve predicted when they first set out on this adventure together.
After a nearly two-year wait, Apple TV has now confirmed that Season 5 of Tryingwill debut on Wednesday, July 8, with new episodes following every week through August 26. Along with the announcement came the first images that show Nikki and Jason once again trying their best to navigate parenthood amid the complicated circumstances. Kat acts as a whirlwind, disrupting the settled life that the couple has spent over six years now trying to build and undoubtedly bringing up mixed feelings for their kids. However, they’ve weathered plenty of storms before and have a support system built around them to accompany them once again, for better or worse. Rounding out the award-worthy ensemble are Darren Boyd, Siân Brooke, Celia Imrie, Phil Davis, Gbemisola Ikumelo, and Colin Morgan.
Collider Exclusive · TV Medicine Quiz Which Fictional Hospital Would You Work Best In? The Pitt · ER · Grey’s Anatomy · House · Scrubs
Five hospitals. Five completely different ways medicine goes sideways on television — brutal, chaotic, romantic, brilliant, and ridiculous. Only one of them is the ward your instincts were built for. Eight questions will figure out exactly where you belong.
🚨The Pitt
🏥ER
💉Grey’s
🔬House
🩺Scrubs
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A critical patient comes through the door. What’s your first instinct? Medicine under pressure reveals who you actually are.
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Why did you go into medicine in the first place? The honest answer says more about you than the one you’d give in an interview.
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What do you actually want from the people you work with? Who you want beside you under pressure is who you are.
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You lose a patient you fought hard to save. How do you carry it? Every doctor who’s worked a long shift has had to answer this question.
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How would your colleagues describe the way you work? Your reputation on the floor is usually more accurate than your self-image.
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How do you feel about hospital protocol and procedure? Every institution has rules. What you do with them is a choice.
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What does this job cost you personally? Nobody works in medicine without paying a price. What’s yours?
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At the end of a long shift, what keeps you coming back? The answer to this question is the most honest thing about you.
Your Assignment Has Been Made You Belong In…
Your answers have pointed to one fictional hospital above all others. This is the ward your instincts, your temperament, and your particular brand of dysfunction were built for.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center
The Pitt
You are built for the most unsparing version of emergency medicine television has ever shown — one that puts you inside a single fifteen-hour shift and doesn’t let you look away.
You need your work to be real, not romanticised — meaning over drama, honesty over aesthetics.
You find purpose inside the work itself, not in the chaos surrounding it.
You’ve made peace with the fact that this job takes from you constantly, and gives back in ways that are harder to name.
Pittsburgh Trauma Medical Center demands exactly that kind of person — and you would not want to be anywhere else.
County General Hospital, Chicago
ER
You are the person who keeps the whole floor running — not the most brilliant in the room, but possibly the most essential.
You show up, do the work, absorb the losses, and come back the next day without needing the job to be anything other than what it is.
You care about patients as individual human beings, not as cases to solve or dramas to live through.
You believe in the system even when it fails you — and you understand that emergency medicine is about holding the line just long enough.
ER is television about endurance. You have it.
Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital, Seattle
Grey’s Anatomy
You came to medicine with your whole self — your ambition, your emotions, your relationships, your history — and you have never quite managed to leave any of it at the door.
You feel things fully and form deep attachments to the people you work with.
Your personal and professional lives are permanently, chaotically entangled — and that entanglement drives both your greatest disasters and your most remarkable saves.
You understand that extraordinary medicine often happens at the intersection of clinical skill and profound human connection.
It’s messy at Grey Sloan. You would not have it any other way.
Princeton-Plainsboro Teaching Hospital, NJ
House
You are drawn to the problem above everything else — the symptom that doesn’t fit, the diagnosis hiding underneath the obvious one.
You’re not primarily motivated by the patient as a person — though you are capable of caring, even if you’d deny it.
You work best when the stakes are highest and the standard answer is wrong.
Princeton-Plainsboro exists to house one extraordinary, impossible mind — and everyone around that mind is there because they’re smart enough to keep up.
The only way forward here is to think harder than everyone else in the room. That is exactly what you do.
Sacred Heart Hospital, California
Scrubs
You understand that medicine is tragic and absurd in almost equal measure — and that the only sane response is to hold both of those things at the same time.
You are warm, self-aware, and funnier than most people in your field.
You use humour to get through terrible moments — and at Sacred Heart, that’s not a flaw, it’s a survival strategy.
You lean on the people around you and let them lean back. The laughter and the grief are genuinely inseparable here.
Scrubs is a show about learning to become someone worthy of the job. You are still very much in the middle of that process — which is exactly right.
‘Trying’ Has Been One of Apple TV’s Most Acclaimed Shows to Date
Created by Andy Wolton as a co-production between Apple TV and BBC, Trying has been showered with praise as one of the streamer’s best and most bingeable series since the very beginning, owning a 96% score overall on Rotten Tomatoes. Despite the bold changes from its original premise with the time jump, Season 4 was met with even higher marks, including a 9/10 review from Collider’s Tania Hussain. Hailing its twists and feel-good nature, she said, “It’ll have viewers sticking around and wondering what’s ahead for a show that deserves more attention as one of Apple TV+’s best.” The same team will be back to keep the good vibes coming, with BAFTA Award nominees Josh Cole and Sam Pinnell joining Wolton as executive producers, alongside International Emmy Award winner Chris Sussman and stars Smith and Spall.
Trying Season 5 premieres on Wednesday, July 8. Check out the first images in the gallery above.
