and Angel's wedding helped boost ratings for the serial with 592,000 viewers watching the episode. Subsequently, the ratings continued to remain steady whilst their romance continued to play out. The episode featuring Shane's death drew a peak audience of 474,000 viewers, beating Sale of the Century on rival channel Nine Network. The episode also earned writer and director, Sean Nash the Australian Writers' Guild award for "Best Episode in a Television Serial" in 1996. In the same year, Series producer Russell Webb was awarded "Best Television Drama Series" by The Australian Film Institute for the episode. Discussing Shane's wedding to Angel, a reporter from Soap World wrote this "Summer Bay spectacular is one of TV's top weddings, but it wasn't to last... sob!" References Home and Away characters Television characters introduced in 1992 Male characters in television