Rude Awakenings is a New Zealand comedy-drama television series, which originally[update] aired on TV One on Friday evenings.
[3] The series centres on two families who live next door to each other in a fashionable street in Ponsonby, a suburb of Auckland.
[4] 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 anaesthetist, and Julian and Ollie are their sons.
Arthur Short has recently had his wife Sharon leave him for a lesbian relationship, and he is unemployed and with few prospects.