Mile High
| Mile High | |
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Series one titles
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | Hewland International |
| Developed by | Sky Television |
| Written by | Jane Hewland Cameron McAllister |
| Directed by | Various |
| Starring | See Cast |
| Opening theme | "The World Is Mine" by Hooverphonic |
| Composer(s) | Hooverphonic |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 39 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Various |
| Location(s) | Various |
| Running time | 49 minutes (approx) |
| Release | |
| Original network | Sky1 |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original release | 16 February 2003 – 20 July 2005 |
| Chronology | |
| Related shows | Dream Team |
Mile High is a British television drama based on the lives of the cabin crew members of Fresh!, a budget airline based in London. The name of the show is a reference to the Mile High Club. The show was broadcast on Sky1 from 2003 to 2005 and then aired again on Sky Three. In 2012, CBS Drama obtained the rights to the series.
A Hewland International production, Mile High is a mix of drama, sex and comedy. The show is based around the flight crew of a young budget airline, in and out of uniform, in the air and on the ground. The series follows the flight crew as they travel and live in the London home they share.
In August 2005, shortly after the series two finale, Sky 1's controller announced that the show would not return for a third series.
In an interview with Digital Spy, executive producer and creator Jane Hewland said "Then finally, to make things worse, the policy at Sky changed 180 degrees right as we were in the middle of the 19 ep series. The previous boss had been pushing us to be more sexually explicit. That was the message. Sky had had lots of programmes like Naked in Westminster and Ibiza Uncovered which had done very well by being quite raunchy. Suddenly that went out of fashion. This wasn't anyone's fault. Times just change. I don't think the audience was ever comfortable with the more explicit things we did. It's not what people want in their living rooms. But the whole show got branded as tacky – the title MILE HIGH does encourage that. By now everybody but us had lost faith. I really enjoyed making the final episodes. I thought we'd come back and found our way again. But creatively I was knackered from having had to produce 58 hours of drama in a single year."
Although the airline flies all over the world, the show was filmed in two airports: London Stansted Airport and the Palma de Mallorca Airport. Also used in filming on location were London and Spain.
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