Rude Awakenings [SEP] country of origin
Rude Awakenings
Rude Awakenings, a New Zealand comedy/drama television series, aired on TV ONE on Friday evenings. The pilot episode aired on 9 February 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 centres on 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
has been jolted with a series of increasingly rude awakenings over the past few weeks." The "Times" reported, variously, that the Iranian government had invited a Lebanese-American to visit the country, and then arrested him for spying; the Ayatollah made a public statement that the slogan "Death to America" was "eternal"; a wave of anti-American billboards went up in the capital; a backlash by political hard-liners began and the Revolutionary Guard intelligence apparatus "started rounding up journalists, activists