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Trading Places
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How Trading Places actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
Trading Places reads strongest on Bingeability, Cliffhanger Intensity and Tension.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The story
What it's about
Follow groups of three young people per episode as they are taken out of their existing lives and plunged into a week-long, 24/7 experience inside one of four extraordinary and revealing worlds – worlds with clear expectations of behaviour, exacting standards and a way of life radically different from their own.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Executive production
- Stephen PainProducer
- Miriam LyonsProducer
- Clare MottersheadExecutive Producer
Direction
- Marcus EnglishDirector
Where to watch
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