The Chaser’s war on media
With politicians suitable covered in the past, The Chaser team will turn its focus on the media, journalists and political spin-men.
In a statement, the Team 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.”
Certainly not unfamiliar territory, the Chaser team have taken aim at media’s portrayal of the news and media in 2009’s The Chaser’s War on Everything.
The Hampster Wheel will be 8×30 minute episodes, going into production this week to premiere later this year, produced by Giant Dwarf Pty Ltd in association with ABC TV.
Executive producer Julian Morrow said “I just can’t wait to get my hands on the ABC credit card again. When it comes to dodgy uses of other people’s money, Craig Thomson’s got nothing on The Chaser team.”
ABC TV Managing Director Mark Scott echoed Rupert Murdoch’s sentiments in the News of the World court hearing when Murdoch said, “This is the most humble day of my life.”
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I’m really looking forward to seeing these guys again. We need political satire in this country badly before we all turn into a bunch of sad rednecks.
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It can’t be any funnier than Fox News.
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Something tells me Chaser will ridicule the Oppositions rather than the most inept government we have ever had in our history.
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Yawn.
Political satire has never been healthier in this country.
Just turn to the opinion pages in the newspapers – they’re a crack-up!
Give “Media Watch” another fifteen minutes.
And spare us the thirty-plus year-old undergrads…
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