Shortland Street producer Maxine Fleming

Maxine Fleming has been creating New Zealand TV drama for more than 20 years - as a writer and a script-editor. She's been associated with the long-running Shortland Street since the hospital-based soap started back in the early 1990s. Until recently she was Shortland Street's Senior Story Editor but now she's taken over as the show's producer. Lynn Freeman talks to Maxine about how the New Zealand TV drama scene has changed since she started out.