Trading Places: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Trading Places is an energetic, entertainingly provocative ‘fish-out-of-water' series that takes a group of three young people and plunges them into an immersive week-long 24/7 experience inside one of four extraordinary worlds whose way of life is very different from their own.

Will it be fireworks or friendship when a generation raised online and on-demand come face to face with regimes built on no-nonsense rules, unshakable principles and loyalty to a strict set of values. How will the young visitors react to the rituals and regulations of their new surroundings? And as the experience transforms both them and their hosts, will either side ever be the same again?

Series details

• Title: Trading Places
• Format: Reality
• Language: English
• Premiere date: 2026-05-10
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Network listed by TVmaze: 5
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 90 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 91738
• TVDB ID: 477399

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2026-05-10; final listed air date 2026-05-31; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from Trading Places 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.