{"id":842837,"date":"2026-08-04T04:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842837\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T04:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T04:50:11","slug":"shortland-street-returning-to-4-episodes-per-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/842837\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortland Street returning to 4 episodes per week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tLong running NZ soap will lift its output from February 2027.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Shortland Street will return to a four-night-a-week from February 2027 on TVNZ 2 and TVNZ+.<\/p>\n<p>The long running soap was scaled back to three episodes per week in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>TVNZ and South Pacific Pictures confirmed its future after securing continued support from NZ On Air and the Screen Production Rebate.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stuff.co.nz\/culture\/361015426\/shortland-street-returns-four-nights-week-after-public-funding-boost\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Stuff reports<\/a> the decision to increase episode volume comes alongside a reduced public funding ask, supported by funding allocated in NZ On Air\u2019s Round Tahi.<\/p>\n<p>South Pacific Pictures chief executive Kelly Martin said \u201cReturning to four nights a week is something we\u2019re all delighted about, and we look forward to continuing to entertain and delight New Zealanders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Shortland Street screens in Australia on 7Plus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long running NZ soap will lift its output from February 2027. Shortland Street will return to a four-night-a-week&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":842838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-842837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842837","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=842837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/842838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=842837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=842837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=842837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}