If they want to describe the life of a dedicated professional pilot perhaps they should examine the lifes of the poor dupes who've spent £100,000 to buy a licence, pay the airline £30,000 to buy a job and then work for free for several months, eventually to get into the scam of working an un-guaranteed amount of hours per month but only when they are needed (ie fill-in summer only) with no holidays, no sick pay, no nothing, and are paid about the same as a jobbing house painter or carpenter. This sort of swindle was made illegal in the Mills in the mid 1800s, and has only just re-surfaced like a nasty plague in the last year ot two. Mr Producer...
Race pilots! Sh!t loads of them about, aren't there?
Ps. Note to the producer. I think you'll find race pilots tend to be wealthy amateurs...as do aerobatic pilots.