Hungry Beast: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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.

Series details

• Title: Hungry Beast
• Format: News
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy
• Premiere date: 2009-09-30
• Final broadcast date listed: 2011-06-08
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: ABC
• Network country: Australia
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 6797
• TVDB ID: 116801

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2009-09-30; final listed air date 2009-12-02; episode order: 10.
• Season 2: premiered 2010-02-10; final listed air date 2010-04-14; episode order: 10.
• Season 3: premiered 2011-03-23; final listed air date 2011-06-08; episode order: 12.

Source and licence

Adapted from Hungry Beast on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.