The Weekly with Charlie Pickering (Season 3)

Episode 1 (Episode 1)

Air date: 2017-02-01

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Episode 2 (Episode 2)

Air date: 2017-02-08

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Episode 3 (Episode 3)

Air date: 2017-02-15

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Episode 4 (Episode 4)

Air date: 2017-02-22

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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!

Episode 5 (Episode 5)

Air date: 2017-03-01

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Episode 6 (Episode 6)

Air date: 2017-03-08

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Episode 7 (Episode 7)

Air date: 2017-03-15

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Episode 8 (Episode 8)

Air date: 2017-03-22

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Episode 9 (Episode 9)

Air date: 2017-03-29

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 10)

Air date: 2017-04-05

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 11)

Air date: 2017-04-12

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Episode 12 (Episode 12)

Air date: 2017-04-19

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Episode 13 (Episode 13)

Air date: 2017-04-26

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 14)

Air date: 2017-05-03

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.

Episode 15 (Episode 15)

Air date: 2017-05-10

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 16)

Air date: 2017-05-17

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 17)

Air date: 2017-05-24

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 18)

Air date: 2017-05-31

Runtime: 30 min

Episode 19 (Episode 19)

Air date: 2017-06-07

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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 (Episode 20)

Air date: 2017-06-14

Runtime: 30 min

Overview: 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.