Save The Dates: Trying Season 5, Rod Stewart Tribute On CBS, And More
Apple TV will start "Trying" again this summer: The U.K. comedy starring Rafe Spall and Esther Smith will return for Season 5 on Wednesday, July 8, TVLine has learned. Episodes will air weekly after that, leading up to the August 26 season finale.
Spall and Smith star as Jason and Nikki, a couple who struggled with fertility issues and decided to go the adoption route. Now they are parents to two children, Princess and Tyler, and in the eight-episode Season 5, they deal "with the consequences of Princess (Scarlett Rayner) and Tyler's (Cooper Turner) biological mother Kat (Charlotte Riley) turning up at their doorstep, and the whirlwind of chaos she brings into their settled family life," per the official synopsis.
The supporting cast includes Darren Boyd ("Killing Eve"), Sian Brooke ("House of the Dragon"), Celia Imrie ("Better Things"), Phil Davis ("Slow Horses"), Gbemisola Ikumelo ("The Paper"), and Colin Morgan ("Humans"). "Trying" debuted in 2020 and, with its fifth season, now stands as one of Apple TV's longest-running original series ever, along with "Slow Horses" and "For All Mankind."
In other scheduling news...
* CBS will air "Forever Young: A Grammy Salute to Rod Stewart Live" on Tuesday, May 19 at 8 p.m., the network has announced. The two-hour event, a co-production with the Recording Academy, will honor the platinum-selling pop singer by combining a live concert experience, never-before-seen interviews, rare archival footage, and exclusive behind-the-scenes access.
* Prime Video's YA drama "Sterling Point" will premiere Wednesday, August 5, with all eight episodes dropping at once. Ella Rubin ("Gossip Girl") stars as teen Annie, whose "life takes a turn when she inherits her mysterious grandfather's island in Canada," per the official logline. "There, she finds new friends, budding romances and untold family secrets."
* FXX has released a trailer for "Welcome to Wrexham" Season 5, premiering Thursday, May 14 at 9 p.m. with back-to-back episodes (also streaming on Hulu):
* Netflix has released a trailer for "Perfect Match" Season 4. The first five episodes will drop Wednesday, May 13, followed by two more episodes on May 20 and the finale on May 27.