ITV hit soap returns to UK after 15 years away from our screens

It's been 15 years since fashionable New Zealand soap Shortland Street aired successful the UK, nevertheless the aesculapian play has yet recovered a location successful Britain - and here's however fans tin watch

New Zealand soap Shortland Street is returning to the UK for the archetypal clip successful 15 years arsenic the deed bid finds a caller home.

The aesculapian play follows the unit of Shortland Street Hospital successful the fictional Auckland suburb of Ferndale - starring Michael Galvin arsenic long-running quality Dr. Chris Warner.

Shortland Street past aired connected now-defunct transmission Sky's Living Loves backmost successful 2010 and has not aired successful the UK since. The soap primitively aired connected ITV backmost successful 1993 earlier moving to assorted antithetic channels including CITV, ITV Granada and yet Sky Living.

Fifteen years later, the soap is returning to our screens connected STV Player - the escaped streaming work which volition aerial 3 caller episodes each Monday from 17 February.

The soap teased that since its yearly festive break, Shortland Street has been revamped for the caller twelvemonth with caller characters, caller storylines and "even much heart-thumping drama".

Speaking astir the show's instrumentality to British screens, prima Michael said: "Kia ora, UK! I’m perfectly thrilled to perceive that Shortland Street is coming to your shores.

This small amusement of ours has go specified a immense portion of the civilization present successful New Zealand implicit the past 33 years, and to cognize that it’s present going to beryllium portion of the British soap scenery alongside legendary shows similar Coronation Street and Emmerdale is simply a existent honour.

“Strap yourselves in, due to the fact that if there’s 1 happening I tin archer you astir Shorty, it’s that play is ne'er much than a heartbeat away…"

Meanwhile, STV's Managing Director of Digital, Richard Williams, said successful a statement: "In New Zealand and respective different planetary territories, Shortland Street has go a taste phenomenon, truthful it’s a large coup for america to beryllium capable to marque STV Player its UK home.

"The amusement is simply a magical blend of ‘just-one-more-episode’ drama, good-natured humour, warmth and topicality – everything we cognize STV Player viewers look for erstwhile choosing their adjacent TV obsession."

He added: "With Doctors concluding past year, there’s a spread successful the telly marketplace for a regular aesculapian drama. We deliberation Shortland Street has each the ingredients to not lone capable that void, but besides find its ain distinctive spot successful viewers’ hearts among the British and Australian soaps they already cognize and love."

Shortland Street follows successful the footsteps of Australia's Neighbours, which was revived successful the UK by Amazon's FreeVee aft being axed by Channel 5 successful 2022.

Shortland Street is disposable to watercourse connected STV Player each Monday from 17 February.

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