The High Life
originally aired on HBO
The High Life is a 1996 black-and-white American sitcom television series starring Mark Wilson and Robert Joy. It was produced by David Letterman's Worldwide Pants Incorporated company and played on the HBO network from November 9 to December 18, 1996. The show was originally supposed to air on CBS with the title "Emmett and Earl" It was set in present-day but with 1950s characteristics, and proved to be unnecessarily confusing for audiences. HBO cut the season from 10 episodes to 8, foreshadowing the show's ultimate cancellation.
Mark Wilson and Robert Joy star as the characters Earl and Emmett. The pair are co-owners of a struggling storage company called Paradise Storage. The show is shot in black and white in an attempt to emulate television from the 1950s.