Charlie Pickering
Director
The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (2015)
Series 3
News comedy show, tonight show and chat show all in one, allowing Charlie to return to his comedy roots while being a general nuisance to newsmakers, politicians and other charlatans.
Released April 22, 2015
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Comedy, News, Talk, Talk Show
Keywords: mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.week-in-review, imdb.comedian-as-tv-host, imdb.australian-politics, imdb.non-fiction, imdb.politics, imdb.political-satire + 3 more, imdb.american-politics, imdb.british-politics, imdb.politics-talk-show
Production Companies: Thinkative Television
Network: ABC TV
S3E1 - Episode 1
Last year, The Weekly promised to put the sense back into the nonsense. In 2017, the nonsense has defeated us. Charlie Pickering, along with Kitty Flanagan, Tom Gleeson & Adam Briggs, will pick the news apart.
Feb. 1, 2017, midnight
S3E2 - Episode 2
Charlie Pickering, along with Kitty Flanagan, Tom Gleeson & Adam Briggs pick apart the news from the nonsense. With special guests South Park creators Trey Parker & Matt Stone.
Feb. 8, 2017, midnight
S3E3 - Episode 3
In 2017 The Weekly is making breaking news even brokener. Charlie Pickering, Kitty Flanagan, Tom Gleeson & Adam Briggs pick apart the news & try to put it back together, hoping no one will notice the bits they broke.
Feb. 15, 2017, midnight
S3E4 - Episode 4
The Weekly newsvestigates the headlines: scare campaigns, Piegate, and the LOLing assassin. Tom Gleeson welcomes Chrissie Swan to the Hard Chat seat. Special guest: Hugo Weaving!
Feb. 22, 2017, midnight
S3E5 - Episode 5
In a world changing at breakneck speed, The Weekly will hardly change at all. We continue to spend our Wednesday nights exposing the absurd, revelling in the ridiculous & throwing shoes at the hypocritical.
March 1, 2017, midnight
S3E6 - Episode 6
Charlie, Tom & Briggs explore WA's election, the NBN, Pauline Hanson & Trumpgate. Charlie meets Carmel Johnston, Commander of NASAs Mars Simulation Mission. Tom meets his Hard Chat match with Aus TV royalty.
March 8, 2017, midnight
S3E7 - Episode 7
Picking apart the week & hoping the kids don't walk in on them, Charlie & Tom tackle WA's election, Wikileaks, beers & Bibles. Guests: creators of South Park & The Book of Mormon, Trey Parker & Matt Stone.
March 15, 2017, midnight
S3E8 - Episode 8
The Weekly talks to the next Albert Einstein and walks through why young Lee swam with a crocodile to capture the heart of a girl! Tom Gleeson Hard Chats Grant Denyer and Kitty Flanagan bamboozles him with Soft Chat.
March 22, 2017, midnight
S3E9 - Episode 9
All the news you tried to avoid. Trump the dealmaker, eavesdropping phones, company tax cuts & The Weekly's Africa correspondent Loyiso Gola in studio. Tom Hard Chats Sarah Wilson. Special guest: Bob Odenkirk.
March 29, 2017, midnight
S3E10 - Episode 10
Charlie, Kitty, Tom & Briggs try to comprehend our universe: April Fools' Day, opinion polls & Mark Latham. Sophie Monk dares to sit in the Hard Chat chair. Special guest Maurice Gleeson explains blind tennis!
April 5, 2017, midnight
S3E11 - Episode 11
Charlie, Kitty, Briggs & Tom let fly at herd immunity, drugs at music festivals, Syria, seafood connoisseurs. Plus Tom rebrands The show & Hard Chats Dave Hughes.
April 12, 2017, midnight
S3E12 - Episode 12
Stop, drop & laugh as The Weekly targets the nuclear apocalypse. Kitty saves us from superbugs, Tom Hard Chats footy legend Chris Judd & Charlie visits old friend Sam Neill.
April 19, 2017, midnight
S3E13 - Episode 13
Charlie & Tom discuss science, the Logies, the citizenship test, and a terrorist child. Plus election watch with Andy Zaltzman, Tom Hard Chats James Blunt, and special guest forensic entomologist Paola Magni.
April 26, 2017, midnight
S3E14 - Episode 14
The Weekly unpacks the news & finds several kilos of jokes. 100 Days of President Trump, Kitty tries de-cluttering, Tom road-tests his new travel show, Mel Buttle shows us Real Australia. Guest: Geoffrey Rush.
May 3, 2017, midnight
S3E15 - Episode 15
The Weekly brings down a surplus of funny as Charlie, Tom & Briggs take on housing affordability, kids & gambling, plus Bill Shorten's latest ad campaign. Special guest: Wiggle Emma Watkins.
May 10, 2017, midnight
S3E16 - Episode 16
The Weekly takes on ransomware, baldness cures & current & future US Presidents. Tom Hard Chats physicist Lawrence Krauss; Kitty explains fidget spinners; comedian DeAnne Smith explains LGBQTI* to the uninitiated.
May 17, 2017, midnight
S3E17 - Episode 17
The Weekly dissects the Battle of Cocaine Cassie, Turkey's World's Strongest Man & the bulge that changed history. Tom launches a travel show; Kitty solves TV mascots. Guest: Today show doyenne Lisa Wilkinson.
May 24, 2017, midnight
S3E18 - Episode 18
May 31, 2017, midnight
S3E19 - Episode 19
Needling the headlines to knit a news-beanie. This week: AirBnB, Russia's new stadium & the UK Election with Jonathan Pie. Tom Hard Chats Steve Price. Kitty takes on pandas. Guest: Data journalist Mona Chalabi
June 7, 2017, midnight
S3E20 - Episode 20
In the season final, Charlie, Tom, Kitty & Briggs take on the UK Election, Russia's World Cup, MasterChef, the Veronicas & the ABC. Special guests: Loyiso Gola, Andy Zaltzman & portrait artist Abdul Abdullah.
June 14, 2017, midnight
Network: ABC TV
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: April 22, 2015
Last Air Date: May 28, 2025, midnight
Status: Returning Series
Certification: NR
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