Shortland Street
New Zealand television soap opera (since 1992)
Shortland Street
Shortland Street is a New Zealand prime-time soap opera and medical drama created by Bettina Hollings, Caterina De Nave and Jason Daniel, centering on the fictitious Shortland Street Hospital. The show is broadcast on TVNZ 2 and produced originally by South Pacific Pictures and subsequently by Grundy Television and its takeover company Fremantle Australia. Airing from 25 May 1992, it is New Zealand's longest-running drama and soap opera, being broadcast continuously for over 8,300 episodes and 35 years (as of November 2026). It is one of the most watched television programmes in New Zealand and is broadcast internationally in numerous countries including Canada and several European and African countries. The show was originally screened as five half-hour episodes each week, and received mixed reviews on its premiere. After its launch, the show suffered a drop in ratings and would have been cancelled if TVNZ had not ordered a year's worth of episodes in advance. TVNZ renewed the production...
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