EndedTVNZ 11996-07-15

City Life

Name: City Life
Genre: Drama
Released: 1996-07-15
Rating: 5
Cast: Claudia Black, Lisa Chappell, Oliver Driver, Charles Mesure, Jack Campbell

Drama~60 min

Seasons

Episodes

Networks

TVNZ 1

Countries

First aired

1996-07-15

Last aired

1998-02-19

Language

Rating

5.0 / 10

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Synopsis and details

City Life was a New Zealand soap opera that screened on TVNZ from 1996-1998. It was portrayed the lives and loves of ten singles who lived in an upmarket apartment building in Auckland, New Zealand. The show was touted as New Zealand's answer to Melrose Place. The show starred Claudia Black, Lisa Chappell, Laurie Foell and Oliver Driver and featured a guest appearance by well known New Zealand actor, Kevin Smith. The show had a long development period, and the original treatment for the show had it set in Wellington with the working title 96 Oriental Parade. However, it was decided to produce the show in Auckland instead, and as such, the shows setting was changed along with the name to City Life. The first episode began with a controversial first scene, featuring a drunken Damon who owned the apartment building, in a homosexual kiss with his former lover Ryan on the night before his wedding. Damon was later killed off in the same episode after being hit by a car on the way to his wedding, and he left his apartment building to all of his friends. However, Damon's fianceè vowed to fight for her share of Damon's estate, leading to a storyline that would span the show's first five episodes.