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Rude Awakenings
''Rude Awakenings'', a New Zealand comedy-drama television series, aired on TV One (New Zealand), TV One on Friday evenings. The first episode aired on 9 February 2007. By March it was averaging almost 320,000 viewers. 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 centres on two families who live next door to each other in a fashionable street in Ponsonby, New Zealand, Ponsonby, a suburb of Auckland. The Rush family has just moved to their newly renovated house in Ponsonby from a lifestyle block in Kumeu (district), 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 te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garth Maxwell
Garth Maxwell (born 1963) is a New Zealand film director. Career Maxwell began working in commercial film industry on the 1984 feature ''Other Halves''. During the 1980s, Maxwell had the opportunity to assist Peter Wells (filmmaker), Peter Wells and Stewart Main in their editing suite. He had a big interest in film making, especially when he was in university, where he had made Super 8 films. The third short film he made was called ''Tandem'', a music-heavy short film. It won the New Zealand film and television awards#GOFTA Awards, GOFTA award for the best short of 1987. In 1988, with funding from TVNZ, Maxwell directed ''Beyond Gravity'', a love story between two men, an astronomy-obsessed Kiwi and a part Italian. This was Maxwell's first gay film. Garth and his co-writer Graham Adams won the best screenplay prize at a French film festival that same year, where they won $13,000. His first feature film was a drama, ''Jack Be Nimble (film), Jack Be Nimble'', which he made in 1993 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |