Broadcast: Sunday 6th June 2010
7:30pm-8:15pm AEST (09:30 GMT) < > « »  < > « »
ABC

Featuring: Matt Smith, Karen Gillan, Arthur Darvill, Neve McIntosh, Robert Pugh, Nia Roberts, Meera Syal

The most ambitious drilling project ever reaches far below the Earth's crust - but the ground is fighting back. CAST: Matt Smith

Press Release:
“While you’ve been drilling down… something else has been drilling up.”

2020: the most ambitious drilling project in history has reached deeper below the Earth’s crust than man has ever gone - but now the ground itself is fighting back.

In The Hungry Earth, The Doctor, Amy and Rory arrive in a tiny mining village, and find themselves battling a deadly danger from a bygone age…

PRODUCTION DETAILS:
1x 65 mins and 12 x 45 mins. A BBC Production. Executive Producer and Lead Writer: Steven Moffatt; Executive Producers: Piers Wenger and Beth Willis.
Synopsis Source: ABC