Owning Manhattan: Trailer, certificate and where to watch
Selling New York's most expensive properties in a reality show that's back for series two
Year: 2024
Certificate: 15
Watching high-powered and highly stressed agents shifting glitzy properties in cities from Los Angeles to Miami and from Dubai to London is one of the hit telly genres of the last few years. The best shows of this type mix hefty chunks of jaw-dropping property porn with the bitchy backbiting of the competing estate agents to scintillating effect. And Owning Manhattan is definitely one of the best.
Estate agency boss Ryan Serhant is a slickly polished property shark in charge of a team of commission-hungry monsters so full of ambition and short of self-awareness that one of them genuinely says that success is his middle name. They'd be compelling to watch in any environment, let alone in Manhattan where the prize for flogging a $250 million apartment with eye-popping views across the city is a cool $10 million.
If Serhant is a familiar face it may be because he starred in US soap As The World Turns before his estate agency days - but British viewers are more likely to have seen him in the property series Million Dollar Listing New York.
In the latest second series, a pressurised Serhant has to make tough staffing decisions. (Two series)
