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1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 min. 41 sec.) ; 160493580 bytes |
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Hungry Beast ; Series 1, Episode 1 |
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The media is a hungry beast - it devours everything and is never satisfied. Now, 19 newcomers to television - recruited after a nationwide call for young talent - are being given the opportunity by the ABC to feed the beast. Each week, they will produce a half-hour of topical TV, as well as daily web content, bringing viewers news from outside the loop. This means they are being asked to find stories that aren't part of the regular news cycle - or to cover stories that are, from a fresh angle. They have been given one editorial instruction: "tell us something we don't know". Beyond that they are being encouraged to use every skill they have - humour, curiosity, passion, bullshit-detection and good old-fashioned snooping around - to bring us the world as they see it, re-mixed.The Hungry Beast website will feature new original stories from the Hungry Beast team each day. Hungry Beast on the web will also be a community where the audience can contribute stories to the website, and potentially have them broadcast on the TV program.What will Hungry Beast look like? Laughs Denton, "Hard to say. I expect it's going to be pretty rough around the edges to begin with - an unusual hybrid of journalism, comedy and... something else. These guys have been instructed to be rigourous in what they do, but also to take creative risks. I don't think we're really going to know what the show is until we see it. It probably won't even start to achieve its potential til the end of its first season. When people ask the team what the show is going to be, they usually respond by saying it will be somewhere between the 7.30 Report and the 7PMProject - so think of it as the 7.15 Reject."PRODUCTION DETAILS:A Zapruder's Other Films production with ABC TV. Executive Producers for Zapruder's Other Films are Andrew Denton and Anita Jacoby. Series Producer: Andy Nehl; ABC TV Head of Arts and Entertainment: Amanda Duthie; ABC TV Executive Producer: Sophia Zachariou |
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Broadcast 2009-09-30 at 21:00:00 |
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Classification: NC |
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Early memories.
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Giant panda -- Behavior.
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Hairdressing.
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Population density.
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New South Wales -- Sydney.
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Streaming video
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Fitzgerald, Mark, director
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Drysdale, Kirsten, host
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Milsom, Veronica, reporter
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