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Browse - Most popular shows featuring: financial strugglex
Shameless
Set in working-class Chicago, the Gallagher family, a working class family of eight, must survive the ups and downs of today's recession. With a mother who is out of her element and an alcoholic father who usually ends up passed out on the living room floor, 18-year-old daughter Fiona is left with the task of keeping her five younger brothers and sisters on the straight and narrow.
Weeds
A single-camera comedy about a single mother who makes ends meet by selling marijuana in suburban Los Angeles. The series exposes the dirty little secrets that lie behind the pristine lawns and shiny closed doors of homes in the fictional town of Agrestic, California.
Fleabag
The six-part series focuses on "a dry-witted, angry, cash-strapped, grief-riddled, porn-watching young woman trying to come to terms with a recent tragedy.
2 Broke Girls
Two poor girls in their early 20s try to make it in New York City. One has been struggling for her whole life, and the other was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, but is now left with nothing.
Industry
Industry follows a group of young graduates competing for a limited set of permanent positions at a top investment bank in London - but the boundaries between colleague, friend, lover, and enemy soon blur as they immerse themselves in a company culture defined as much by sex, drugs, and ego as it is by deals and dividends. As members of the group rise and fall, they must decide whether life is about more than the bottom line.
Heartland (CA)
A family deals with the ups and downs of running a ranch for abused horses that's now so deep in debt that they're one payment away from losing it all. Adapted from Lauren Brooke's best-selling novels.
WeCrashed
Follow the greed-filled rise and inevitable fall of WeWork, one of the world's most valuable startups, and the narcissists whose chaotic love made it all possible.
Bonding
After years apart, high school best friends Tiff and Pete reconnect in New York City only to discover they may not know each other as well as they used to. Tiff has a little secret: she is one of New York City's top dominatrixes. Knowing that Pete, a struggling standup comic, is in need of cash, she makes him an offer he can't refuse: to become a dominatrix's assistant.
Hung
From the creators of The Riches comes an HBO comedy pilot about a middle-aged basketball coach who figures out how to put his exceptional physical endowments to use.
The Client List
This show is about a Texas housewife (Hewitt), who, after being deserted by her husband, is left in deep financial straits and takes a job at a seemingly traditional day spa in a neighboring town. When she realizes massages aren't the only services on the menu, she quickly grabs the opportunity to relieve her financial hardships by partnering with the parlor's feisty and disorganized owner to run the business.
The Durrells
Placed in 1935 when the Englishwoman Louisa Durrell, whose life fell apart decided to move from London to the island of Corfu,Greece. Her husband had died years before and she had financial problem. Announces the four children that move to our island and Homeric battle ensues and denial, especially when they discover that Corfu has not even electricity at that time. But is cheap, an earthly paradise and the big step for the Durrell family happens.
Hoffman Family Gold
Fans of Discovery's #1-rated show "Gold Rush" have watched miner Todd Hoffman bet it all with the hope to strike it rich in gold. Now Todd has been given an opportunity too good to pass up so he's heading back to Alaska. After ending a checkered mining season in Colorado in 2018, Todd is ready to get back in the game. He's emptying his life savings with the hope to turn around a distressed mine located nearly 100 miles north of Nome, Alaska. An old mining partner has invested in the nearly 2,500 acres of rugged land. However, after years of greenhorn crews, busted equipment and little to no results, they're about to go belly up. Todd's taking a big gamble that he can turn around the operation and produce enough gold to get the mine out of the red. If he pulls it off, Todd will secure the mining rights for the next decade and could build a family legacy. But can he do it in just six weeks before the winter season sets in?
Bar Rescue
Jon Taffer, a well-known restaurant and bar consultant, shares his tips for running a successful business.
Indebted
Young parents Dave and Rebecca are ready to reclaim their life after years of diapers and sleepless nights. However, things take an unexpected turn when Dave's parents show up unannounced and broke, leaving Dave with no choice but to open the door to the people who gave him everything. But these boomerang parents aren't great with boundaries, and the question of who's parenting whom quickly becomes blurred.
Dirty Money (2018)
From rigged cars to wildly inflated drug prices, this documentary series lifts the lid on shocking acts of corporate greed and corruption.
Snabba Cash
Set 10 years after the film trilogy, three new characters continue the chase for easy money in Stockholm's changed underworld and startup boom.
Dragon's Den
The "dragons", a panel of tough business minds, decide whether or not to green light a fund-lacking entrepreneur's idea on this BBC2 series. Contestants pitch their ideas offering up a percentage of ownership in the imagined company in the hopes of winning the investment dollars of five critical venture capitalists.
The Profit
Entrepreneur Marcus Lemonis uses his expertise to save struggling businesses in this hit reality series. He's turned around over 100 companies!
Watch as Lemonis uses his cash and business know-how to help these companies thrive. A must-watch for anyone interested in entrepreneurship.
Stonehouse
Stonehouse was a high-flying politician in the Labour Party in the 1970s but was involved in an extramarital affair, had financial problems and had acted as a spy for the Czech Secret Service, which took its toll and led to him faking his death and fleeing to Australia. He was eventually found and brought back to England by British detectives.
Finding Alice
Finding Alice is a drama series about a woman who loses her husband in a freak accident only to find he has left her to unravel a trail of secrets, debt and criminality.
How We Roll
After being laid off from the assembly line at the GM factory, a seemingly ordinary man makes the extraordinary decision to provide for his family by following his dream of becoming a professional bowler. Based on professional bowler Tom Smallwood's life.
Bless the Harts
Bless the Harts follows a group of Southerners who are always broke as a joke and struggling for the American dream of status and wealth. What they don't realize is that they're already rich - in friends, family and laughter.
Teen Mom: Young and Pregnant
Ashley, Brianna, Jade, Kayla, and Lexi are five young women navigating the complexity of pregnancy and becoming young mothers.
Romantic Getaway
Allison and Deacon are desperate for a baby, but they've run out of money to fund any more IVF treatment. So they decide to 'borrow' the £50k they need from their filthy rich boss Alfie, who they discover is illegally creaming off money from the company. And it works! Except that, on a whim, Deacon secretly adds an extra nought to the transfer, and actually steals half a million quid. Also, Allison is secretly starting to doubt whether she wants a baby after all. Their web of lies kicks off a downward spiral into the criminal underworld of suburban Britain, and pushes them, and their plans for their future together, to the limit.
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