The High Life
- TV sitcom
- BBC Two
- 1994 - 1995
- 7 episodes (1 series)
Scottish comedy series about the crew of a cut-price airline shuttle service between Prestwick and Heathrow. Stars Alan Cumming, Forbes Masson, Siobhan Redmond and Patrick Ryecart.
Press clippings
Cumming and Masson board return flight of The High Life musical
It's 30 years since Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson last portrayed Air Scotia's bumbling cabin crew in the cult TV sitcom The High Life. The BBC show ran for just one short season before both actors, who had met at drama school, went off in different directions to pursue solo careers. But reuniting to write a book about their first stage partnership, playing Victor and Barry, made them realise that The High Life was ripe for a revival.
Pauline McLean, BBC, 28th May 2025The High Life set to fly again as a musical
Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson are adapting their short-lived sitcom The High Life into a musical, as the pair celebrate 40 years of performing together in a new book.
British Comedy Guide, 28th April 2023BBC Four to repeat comedy classics
To link in with the celebrations of 100 years of the BBC, from Saturday 22nd October BBC Four will begin broadcasting classic episodes of sitcoms and sketch shows.
British Comedy Guide, 14th October 2022Re-run of the brash, short-lived '94 Scotcom. Writers Alan Cumming and Forbes Masson play flight stewards dreaming of the big time (or the long haul). There are a few neat lines and left-field touches (microwaved teeth, a Trekobsessed captain), but the supremely kitsch titles are the real Highlight.
Radio Times, 13th January 2009I award five funny bones to Health And Efficiency (BBC1) and Bottom (BBC2). Four to Ellen and Roseanne (both Channel 4). Three to Fantasy Football League and Darts (both BBC2). Two to The High Life for Cumming and Masson, a double act working with a pair of scissors.
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 7th January 1995