Reception
At the 1996 Inside Soap Awards Shane was named the most missed soap opera character. The two episodes featuring the school musical where Shane's feud with Tug O'Neale reached its climax were nominated for "Best Episode in a Television Drama Serial" at the Australian Film Institute awards in 1993. For the role of Shane, Brummer was nominated for the Gold Logie and Silver Logie Awards for "Most Popular Actor" in 1994, however failed to win. However he went on to win the "Most Popular Actor" silver Logie Award in 1995 and 1996. In 1993 and 1994, the role saw Brummer voted as "The Prince of Soap" by Dolly magazine's readers. TV Fix chose his unexpected death scenes as number seven on their list of "Most shocking TV deaths". The role saw Brummer become popular amongst teenage girls who considered him to be a "heart-throb". He would often receive high volumes of fan-mail from females fans. He has been described as a "do-gooder bimboy" British newspaper the Daily Mirror. Shane 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.
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