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High Times
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.
The Crow Road
History student Prentice returns home to attend his grandmother’s funeral. As the McHoan family gathers together to mark the solemn occasion, old disagreements continue to fester and old acquaintances are renewed. Following the unexpected death of another close relative, Prentice begins to question the past: why did his Uncle Rory suddenly disappear and where did he go? Reading his Uncle Rory’s unpublished novel may provide the answers he is seeking but it also unearths some dark family secrets he didn’t bargain for.
Night People
Night People follows the stories of five people across the course of one life-changing night in Edinburgh.
Instant Credit
Downtrodden Frankie is given an opportunity that is too good to refuse when a chance encounter gives him 24 hours to get his life back on track and revive his romance.
The Aficionado
An emotionally crippled young guy has trouble communicating his love to his girlfriend. Maybe it stems from his father not showing enough affection to his mother Or maybe it's because he has a seemingly greater passion - football!
Love is a Four-Letter Word
If your job is to break up other people's relationships, what do you do if you fall in love with one of your victims?
First It's Dark
When I was younger I thought there was a secret, something that only the grown ups knew, and then one dark day the secret was revealed to me and suddenly the world wasn’t safe any more.
Lord of the Fleas
When your bonfire is stolen by a rival gang, there is only one thing to do. Head through no-man's and and steal it back.
Blackout
Flying bin bags, missing sofas, broken lifts and a complete power failure make an interesting night for tenants of a council tower block.