The Weekly with Charlie Pickering - Season 3
Season 3
Episodes
Episode 1
Last year, The Weekly promised to put the sense back into the nonsense. In 2017, the nonsense has defeated us. Each week, Charlie Pickering, along with Kitty Flanagan, Tom Gleeson & Adam Briggs, will pick the news apart.
Episode 2
Last year, The Weekly promised to put the sense back into the nonsense. In 2017, the nonsense has defeated us. Each week, Charlie Pickering, along with Kitty Flanagan, Tom Gleeson & Adam Briggs, will pick the news apart
Episode 3
Charlie Pickering, Kitty Flanagan and Tom Gleeson investigate burqa bans, political correctness, sleeping rough... and what REALLY caused SA's blackouts? Special guest: Matt Damon!
Episode 4
The Weekly news investigates the headlines: scare campaigns, Piegate, and the LOLing assassin. Tom Gleeson welcomes Chrissie Swan to the Hard Chat seat. Special guest: Hugo Weaving!
Episode 5
We celebrate the Oscars, welcome back Tony Abbott & get to know the President who thinks he's the new Hitler. Kitty studies millennial sex, Tom Hard Chats Sarah Hanson-Young & Charlie meets author Simon Sinek.
Episode 6
Charlie, Tom & Briggs explore WA's election, the NBN, Pauline Hanson & Trumpgate. Charlie meets Carmel Johnston, Commander of NASA's Mars Simulation Mission. Tom meets his Hard Chat match with Aus TV royalty.
Episode 7
Episode 8
The Weekly offends, insults and humiliates Donald Trump, the croc jumper, Prince William's ski trip, and a big chicken. Tom Hard Chats Grant Denyer. Special guest: rock star physicist Brian Greene.
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.
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!
Episode 11
Charlie, Kitty, Briggs & Tom let fly at herd immunity, drugs at music festivals, Syria, seafood connoisseurs & the new look for ABC News. Plus Tom Hard Chats Dave Hughes.
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. Guests: Judith Lucy & Denise Scott
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.
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. Special guest: Geoffrey Rush.
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
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.
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.
Episode 18
The Weekly bags Corby coverage, Cardinal Pell, and baristas of the world. Kitty serves it up to Margaret Court and Tom Hard Chats Senator Sam Dastyari. Special guest: athlete and motivationalist, Turia Pitt! covfefe
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.
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.
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