The Chaser to skewer Australian media on The Hamster Wheel

The team behind The Chaser is to put the media under scrutiny in their next ABC project The Hamster Wheel.

The Hamster Wheel – consisting of eight half hour shows – is to be a news analysis show, the ABC revealed. It said: “The Hamster Wheel will examine the contemporary media landscape, where everyone from journalists to political fixers is perpetually at risk of spinning out of control.”

The group’s last full ABC series The Chaser’s War On Everything finished in 2009. Since then, one offs have included the Yes We Canberra election special and the doomed Royal Wedding special.

Some of The Chaser’s most memorable work has included its targeting of Australian media.