The Profit: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

When Marcus Lemonis isn't running his multi-billion dollar company, Camping World, he goes on the hunt for struggling businesses that are desperate for cash and ripe for a deal. In the past 10 years, he's successfully turned around over 100 companies. Now he's bringing those skills to CNBC and doing something no one has ever done on TV before ... he's putting over $2 million of his own money on the line.

In each episode of The Profit, Lemonis makes an offer that's impossible to refuse; his cash for a piece of the business and a percentage of the profits. And once inside these companies, he'll do almost anything to save the business and make himself a profit; even if it means firing the president, promoting the secretary or doing the work himself.

Series details

• Title: The Profit
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2013-07-30
• Final broadcast date listed: 2021-09-28
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CNBC
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 8/10
• TVMaze ID: 728

Cast and credited roles

• Marcus Lemonis — Host

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2013-07-30; final listed air date 2013-09-03; episode order: 6.
• Season 2: premiered 2014-02-25; final listed air date 2014-12-16; episode order: 18.
• Season 3: premiered 2015-05-12; final listed air date 2016-02-16; episode order: 22.
• Season 4: premiered 2016-08-23; final listed air date 2017-08-08; episode order: 20.
• Season 5: premiered 2017-11-21; final listed air date 2018-07-31; episode order: 20.
• Season 6: premiered 2018-12-04; final listed air date 2019-03-19; episode order: 11.
• Season 7: premiered 2019-11-05; final listed air date 2020-03-17.
• Season 8: premiered 2021-08-10; final listed air date 2021-09-28.

Source and licence

Adapted from The Profit on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.