Season 2 • Episode 6
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High Times is a Scottish comedy drama on STV, based around the lives of two flatmates and their neighbours in a high-rise tower block in Glasgow, in the last weeks before its closure for renovation. There are six episodes of stories interlinking the lives of a number of families. The first series of High Times won a BAFTA Scotland award in 2004 for Best Scottish television drama and was shortlisted for the 2005 Rose d'Or and Prix Italia television awards. In the same year it also won the award for Best Drama Series at the Celtic Film and Television Festival. Series 2 was nominated for a Royal Television Society award. In June 2010 it was announced that High Times would be one of the STV archive programmes to be made available on YouTube on the STV Player channel.
Acting
McCole brothers and Morrison feel like actual mates.
Writing
Dialogue that captures Glasgow's brutal wit perfectly.
Production
Real tower block location adds documentary-level authenticity.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The tower block was actually scheduled for demolition during filming; crew shot around real residents being relocated.
High Times became a rare Scottish working-class portrait that wasn't poverty porn—BAFTA Scotland recognized it for humanizing estate life with humor instead of misery.
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