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Shortland Street is a New Zealand made soap opera about the personal and professional lives of the worker's at Shortland Street Hospital.
Shortland Street is a half an hour series on from Monday - Friday every week. Shortland Street is directed by Sam Scott, Angela Bloomfield, Caroline Bell-Booth, Britta Johnstone, Anna Marbrook, Geoffrey Cawthorn, Wayne Tourell, Jonathon Alvern, Renato Barlotomei & Katherine McRae. The Executive Producers are Simon Bennett and John Barnette. The Producers are Caterina De Nave (1992), Brian Lennane (1992-1993), Tony Holden (1994-1995), Gavin Srawhan (1995-1996), Simon Bennett (1997-2000), Harriet Crampton (2001-2005), Katie Wolfe (2005), Jason Daniel (2005-2008) & Steven Zanoski (2009-present episodes). The Shortland Street Series Editor is Rowen Mackay. The Shortland Street series is filmed at 8 Tolich PL, Lincoln North, 0610, New Zealand.
Cast of Shortland Street
The early Shortland Street Cast
History
1990's
Ken Catran worked with Fremantle Pictures when he started to develope the Shortland Street Script. He created the characters and the settings for the series and in his first series a very well known New Zealand line now was used; 'You're not in Guatemale now, Doctor Ropata'. At the start of the show many viewers thought that Shortland had very bad acting and a poor storyline.
1990's
In 2001 Shortland Street lost 14 cast members for which they were either let go from their contracts or had decided to leave the show. One of the most memorable moments in the 2000's were when Angela and Rangi were killed off on the show and Frank, Minnie, Moira, Kate, Blake, Al, Dean, Cassie, Erin, Paul and Sofia were all written off. In 2004 the show's ratings sky rocketed when Dominic Thompson, who was Ferndales killer, kidnapped Chris Warner, a Shortland Street Surgeon, and attempted to kill him. In 2005 Shortland Street came first place in the Woman's Day TV Choice TV Awards. They also then won the same award the next year as well. Also Doctor Ropata appeared on the 4000th episode for the next eight weeks.
2000's
In 2001 Shortland Street lost 14 cast members for which they were either let go from their contracts or had decided to leave the show. One of the most memorable moments in the 2000's were when Angela and Rangi were killed off on the show and Frank, Minnie, Moira, Kate, Blake, Al, Dean, Cassie, Erin, Paul and Sofia were all written off. In 2004 the show's ratings sky rocketed when Dominic Thompson, who was Ferndales killer, kidnapped Chris Warner, a Shortland Street Surgeon, and attempted to kill him. In 2005 Shortland Street came first place in the Woman's Day TV Choice TV Awards. They also then won the same award the next year as well. Also Doctor Ropata appeared on the 4000th episode for the next eight weeks.
The Shortland Street Cast of 2011
2010's
During the 2010's Kieran Mitchells Story line made it the second highest rating for the show. During the time period Chris Warner found out that he had a son with Alison Raynor. Also during the time period All Black Players Anthony Boric, Keven Mealamu and Jerome Kaino featured in a episode which was aired on September 9th, also known as the opening of the 2011 Rugby World Cup.
History
Shortland Street was first aired on New Zealand Television on May 25th 1992. It is New Zealand's longest running Soap Opera Drama ever was nearly cut when it first aired as they didn't get very many ratings. But since TVNZ had made a contract for the first year meaning that Shortland Street would be given an entire year in order to get up and running. Luckily in early 1993 the Television show started getting more and more viewers. Shortland Street has had more than 4500 episodes throughout 19 years (Of 16th December 2011). Shortland Street is directed by Sam Scott, Angela Bloomfield, Caroline Bell-Booth, Britta Johnstone, Anna Marbrook, Geoffrey Cawthorn, Wayne Tourell, Jonathon Alvern, Renato Barlotomei & Katherine McRae.
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