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Shortland Street is New Zealand's longest-running soap opera. It is the longest-running television soap opera in New Zealand first broadcast on Monday, 25 May 1992 made by South Pacific Pictures and broadcast weeknights on TVNZ's TV2. According to the TVNZ website, the show has an audience of 700,000 per night [1] which constitutes about 17.5% of the domestic population.
Set in a modern metropolitan hospital in the fictional Auckland City suburb of Ferndale.
In popular culture, Shortland Street is sometimes referred to as Shorty Street or Shorty. The show's famous name has been hinted at by TVNZ to be associated with the former Shortland Street television studios in the Auckland City CBD, a mainstay for TVNZ in Auckland until the end of the 1980's.
The show celebrated its 3,500th Episode on Tuesday the 13th of June, 2006.
The show celebrated it's 15th birthday in May 2007.







