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Rude Awakenings

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Rude Awakenings
Format	Drama, Comedy
Created by	Garth Maxwell Stephanie Johnson Fiona Samuel
Developed by	Television New Zealand
Starring	See Cast and characters below
Country of origin	New Zealand
No. of episodes	11
Production
Executive producer(s)	Michele Fantl
Broadcast
Original channel	TV ONE
First shown in	New Zealand
Original run	9th February 2007 - 20th April 2007 – present
External links
Official website

Rude Awakenings is a New Zealand comedy/drama series that originally aired on TV ONE on Friday evenings. The pilot episode aired on February 9 2007. It has been confirmed there will be no more episodes, with TVNZ citing low ratings as the reason despite the show receiving much praise from viewers. The series is based around two families, who live next door to each other in a fashionable street in Ponsonby, a suburb of Auckland. 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 anaesthesiologist, 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.