Episodes
Episode 1
February 1, 2017
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
February 8, 2017
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
February 15, 2017
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
February 22, 2017
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
March 1, 2017
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
March 8, 2017
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
March 15, 2017
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
March 22, 2017
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
March 29, 2017
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
April 5, 2017
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
April 12, 2017
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
April 19, 2017
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
April 26, 2017
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
May 3, 2017
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
May 10, 2017
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
May 17, 2017
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
May 24, 2017
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
May 31, 2017
Episode 19
June 7, 2017
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
June 14, 2017
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.
