Rude Awakenings

For films, bands, albums and television programs called Rude Awakening, see Rude Awakening (disambiguation).

Rude Awakenings
Created byGarth Maxwell
Stephanie Johnson
Fiona Samuel
Developed byTelevision New Zealand
Country of originNew Zealand
No. of episodes11
Production
Executive producerMichele Fantl
Production companyM.F Films
Original release
NetworkTV One
Release9 February (2007-02-09)[1] –
20 April 2007 (2007-04-20)
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Rude Awakenings is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series, which originally aired on TV One on Friday evenings.[2] The first episode aired on 9 February 2007.[1] By March it was averaging almost 320,000 viewers.[3]

The series centres on two families who live next door to each other in a fashionable street in Ponsonby, a suburb of Auckland.[4] The Rush family has just moved to their newly renovated house in Ponsonby from a lifestyle block in Kumeu. Dimity, the mother, is a human resources manager; Stuart, the father, is an anaesthetist, and Julian and Ollie are their sons. They immediately hit a wrong chord with their new neighbours, the Short family.

Arthur Short has recently had his wife Sharon leave him for a lesbian relationship, and he is unemployed and with few prospects. His two teenage daughters, Amber and Constance, live with him. Their house, where they have been tenants for the last 20 years, is up for sale, but they are determined to remain where they are.

The series has been released to DVD.

  1. ^ a b Thorley, Alan (10 February 2007), "Battle of the villas", Waikato Times
  2. ^ Ward, Nick (23 February 2007), "Waking to a property nightmare", The Nelson Mail
  3. ^ Grunwell, Rachel (2 March 2007), "Show's filming was a rude awakening: locals", Sunday Star Times
  4. ^ "Review: Rude Awakenings, TV One".