Heartbreak High (1994)

Directed by

Andrew Prowse, Shirley Barrett, Rowan Woods, Karl Zwicky

Genre

drama television series, youth series

Country

Australia

Length

6 seasons, 210 episodes

Rated

TV-MA

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 42 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

It is about the lives of students and teachers at a multicultural high school in Sydney. They deal with personal issues, relationships, and the challenges of adolescence in a gritty and fast-paced drama.

grittyfast-pacedteen dramaearnestatmospheric90s nostalgiarealisticmelodramatic

What happens

Heartbreak High is an Australian television programme created by Michael Jenkins and Ben Gannon that ran from 1994 to 1996 on Network Ten and 1997 to 1999 on ABC, for seven series. It was also partially funded from 1996 by BBC2, with some episodes airing in the UK ahead of their Australian release. The drama has been described as more gritty and fast-paced than many of its contemporaries, and follows the lives of students and staff at a multicultural Sydney high school. The first five series were set at the fictional Hartley High and filmed in Maroubra Bay High School in Maroubra, New South Wales in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney, Australia. Series six and seven were set at the fictional Hartley Heights, and filmed in Warriewood in the Northern Beaches. The show is a spin-off of the 1993 Australian feature film The Heartbreak Kid, which also featured Alex Dimitriades, Nico Lathouris, Doris Younane, Scott Major and Katherine Halliday as early versions of their Heartbreak High characters. In 2020, Netflix produced a reboot, created by Hannah Carroll Chapman, which first aired in September 2022 and ran for three seasons, ending in March 2026. It was filmed in South Sydney Highschool, Maroubra. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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