Episodes (21)
![Episode #3.1](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Feb 01, 2017
Topics: Australia Day date change (with Adam Briggs); Macquarie Dictionary names "fake news" as its Word of the Year; One Nation's Western Australian candidate David Archibald calls for the single parents support payment to be scrapped claiming single motherhood would lead to lazy and ugly people; the ABC ends its shortwave transmission service in the Northern Territory and to international audiences; Tropfest's 25th Anniversary (with George Miller); The Pub Test (with Kitty Flanagan).
![Episode #3.2](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Feb 08, 2017
Topics: Cory Bernardi leaves the Liberal Party to form his own political party called the Australian Conservatives; a sinkhole has opened near Malcolm Turnbull's Sydney harbourside mansion; Derryn Hinch's Justice Party; Queen Elizabeth II celebrates her Sapphire jubilee; Pamela Anderson rumoured to be romantically linked to Julian Assange; Earthing movement and products as a pseudoscience (with Kitty Flanagan); Australia follows European countries responding to Donald Trump's "America First" slogan in his inauguration speech by releasing satirical videos mimicking ...
![Episode #3.3](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Feb 15, 2017
Topics: Jacqui Lambie introduced a bill to ban the burqa for national security and public safety reasons; homelessness increases as public housing crisis worsens; the High Court ruled Rod Culleton was never eligible to be elected to the Senate and the Federal Court has declared he was bankrupt; Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull blames renewable energy for South Australia's power outages despite emails citing the state's extreme storms were the cause.
![Episode #3.4](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Feb 22, 2017
Topics: Sutton United's goalkeeper Wayne Shaw was forced to resign after eating a pie in a betting stunt during the match between Sutton United and Arsenal which led to an investigation by the Gambling Commission and The Football Association; Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife Sara arrived in Sydney for a 4-day visit to Australia; Malcolm Turnbull arrived in New Zealand last week to meet with Bill English for the annual leaders' meeting in Queenstown; the Coalition wants to avoid another Mediscare campaign by making it a criminal offence to impersonate or purport to act ...
![Episode #3.5](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Mar 01, 2017
Topics: La La Land was announced as the 89th Academy Awards Best Picture winner until the acceptance speech was interrupted to announce that Moonlight actually won; Malcolm Turnbull blamed Tony Abbott's outburst last week for poor polling by Newspoll which showed the Coalition trailing Labor 55-45 in two-party preferences; a US research study in the Archives of Sexual Behavior show Millennials are having less sex than Generation X did at the same age (with Kitty Flanagan); Philippine's recently elected president Rodrigo Duterte gained an approval rating of 86 percent ...
![Episode #3.6](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Mar 08, 2017
Topics: Trump accused Barack Obama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the 2016 election without providing evidence and Trump requested Congress to launch an investigation a day later; the Coalition proposed reforming section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act by introducing a reasonable person test where a member of the community judges whether or not the racist behaviour breaches the standards of ordinary Australians; the AANA amended its Advertiser Code of Ethics to require social influencers to be more transparent about sponsored posts and commercial connections ...
![Trey Parker and Matt Stone](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Mar 15, 2017
Topics: Wikileaks released data to the internet about CIA's hacking tools that exploit iPhones, Android phones, Windows computers and Samsung televisions to spy and listen in on conversations; Tony Blair was invited to the unveiling of a new UK war memorial honouring Britons who fought in the Afghanistan and Iraq wars while families of war heroes were not invited (with Jonathan Pie); Labor wins the Western Australian state election by a landslide with Mark McGowan becoming the state's new Premier; The Book of Mormon (with Matt Stone and Trey Parker).
![Episode #3.8](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Mar 22, 2017
Topics: Queenslander Lee de Paauw ended up in hospital after a drunken attempt to impress British backpacker Sophie Paterson by jumping into a crocodile infested river and fought off a saltwater crocodile; Prince William was caught on camera dancing daggy dad moves in a Swiss nightclub; String theory and physics (with Brian Greene); a short history of the Australian Grand Prix (with Francis Leach, Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki, Raoul Mulder and economist Rod Campbell).
![Episode #3.9](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Mar 29, 2017
Topics: the Coalition's 10 year tax plan to cut company tax rates to 25 percent for all businesses has passed the Lower House; Trump abandoned his election promise to overhaul Obamacare after he failed to gain support from members of his own political party; Durban will no longer host the 2022 Commonwealth Games due to financial constraints and failure to meet deadlines (with Loyiso Gola); Better Call Saul (with Bob Odenkirk); news media reported that Prince William narrowly avoided a helicopter crash despite Prince William not being onboard the helicopter at the time...
![Episode #3.10](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Apr 05, 2017
Topics: Sky News Australia fired Mark Latham after he made a series of offensive comments during broadcasts; Malcolm Turnbull caused an uproar after he refused a sausage in bread from a volunteer while visiting flood victims in Lismore, New South Wales; the latest polls from Fairfax-Ipsos and Newspoll showed support for the Coalition continued to drop; making sports accessible for the visually impaired (with Maurice Gleeson).
![Episode #3.11](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Apr 12, 2017
Topics: Trump launched a military missile attack on a Syrian airfield; aspiring rapper Terry Peck consumed a meal worth $620 at a Gold Coast restaurant and fled without paying before he was captured by police; Herd immunity (with Kitty Flanagan); drugs at music festivals (with Adam Briggs).
![Episode #3.12](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Apr 19, 2017
Topics: North Korea threatens nuclear war against USA; ABC's music video programme Rage celebrates 30 years; Perth Glory's goalkeeper Liam Reddy committed a blunder which enabled Melbourne City's Nick Fitzgerald to score an open goal; Super bugs (with Kitty Flanagan); The Weekly celebrates 2 years since its first episode (with Sam Neill).
![Episode #3.13](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Apr 26, 2017
Topics: The Coalition announced a new Australian citizenship test based on Australian values; global March for Science protests called for action against Trump's dismissal of climate science and his calls for large cuts to scientific research; a 3-month old baby was refused a US visa and summoned to the US Embassy in London for an interview after his grandfather made an error on a visa waiver form; using forensic entomology to solve crimes (with Paola Magni); Elections in France (with Andy Zaltzman).
![Episode #3.14](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
May 03, 2017
Topics: Cassandra Sainsbury was arrested at El Dorado International Airport in Bogotá, Colombia after 5.8 kilograms of cocaine was found in her luggage; Murdoch media accused the ABC of being out of touch with ordinary Australians (with Mel Buttle); Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales (with Geoffrey Rush); Trump's first 100 days in office as President of the United States; Decluttering (with Kitty Flanagan).
![Episode #3.15](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
May 10, 2017
Topics: Scott Morrison delivered the 2017 Australian federal budget; Sam Dastyari released a video on social media titled '$1 million in Sydney' in a bid to address the housing affordability crisis; news broke on a Royal Announcement causing confusion regarding Prince Philip's health which turned out to be an announcement of his retirement from public activities; Emmanuel Macron defeated far-right rival Marine Le Pen to become president after winning the French elections; being the first female Wiggle (with Emma Watkins); the Coalition bans gambling advertising during...
![Episode #3.16](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
May 17, 2017
Topics: Global WannaCry ransomware attack; US media reported that Trump had put national security at risk when he revealed highly classified information to a Russian foreign minister and ambassador; rumours emerge that Mark Zuckerberg has aspirations of running for US president; scientists may have found a cure for baldness by accident while studying cancer tumours; Theoretical physics (with Lawrence M. Krauss); understanding LGBTIQ (with DeAnne Smith); Fidget spinner (with Kitty Flanagan).
![Episode #3.17](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
May 24, 2017
Topics: 60 Minutes and Sunday Night compete for ratings with reports of Cassandra Sainsbury's drug bust; Lisa Wilkinson celebrated 10 years as host of The Today Show.
![Episode #3.18](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
May 31, 2017
Topics: Trump tweets the word covfefe instead of the word coverage on Twitter; Schapelle Corby returned to Australia after 12 years in an Indonesian prison; Cardinal George Pell could still be charged with child sex abuse offences dating back to the late 1970s; Unmasked by Turia Pitt with Bryce Corbett (with Turia Pitt); Margaret Court declared she will no longer fly with QANTAS because the airline's CEO Alan Joyce supports Same-sex marriage.
![Episode #3.19](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jun 07, 2017
Topics: Boris Johnson calls Jeremy Corbyn a 'mugwump'; UK election (with Jonathan Pie); a study has found that Airbnb has an adverse impact on Australia's housing affordability and rental market by listing more properties once available to local long-term renters and raising the prices for rental accommodation; data journalism and analysis (with Mona Chalabi); Panda pornography (with Kitty Flanagan).
![Episode #3.20](https://static-sg.winudf.com/wupload/xy/aprojectadmin/NsKZHnSB.png?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Jun 14, 2017
Topics: The 2017 UK election resulted in a hung parliament forcing incumbent Prime Minister Theresa May to form a coalition with the Democratic Unionist Party (with Andy Zaltzman); the Saint Petersburg Stadium (with Loyiso Gola); understanding experiences of young Muslims in the contemporary multicultural Australian context through art (with Abdul Abdullah).
![The Yearly with Charlie Pickering](https://static-sg.winudf.com/video/image/0156d6ee-e05f-4403-80de-f8f17d745bcc.jpg?imageMogr2/thumbnail/x300/format/webp)
Dec 20, 2017
Charlie Pickering and the Weekly team look back on 2017, the year when President Trump, postal surveys, Kim Jong-un, bike share schemes, and undercover Kiwi MPs plunged us all into la-la land. Er, sorry: Moonlight.
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The Weekly with Charlie Pickering Season 3 (2017) is released on Feb 01, 2017 and the latest season 9 of The Weekly with Charlie Pickering is released in 2023. Watch The Weekly with Charlie Pickering online - the English Comedy TV series from Australia. The Weekly with Charlie Pickering is directed by Jon Olb,Vasiliki Kritharelis and created by Scott Abbot with Charlie Pickering and Tom Gleeson.