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00:11Hello and welcome to The Weekly. I'm Charlie Pickering. A huge show for you tonight. Margaret
00:16Pomerantz is back to take on Aussie Shore. Nick Cody's here to make UFC fans out of us.
00:21And Alexei Toliopoulos sits down with Australian silver screen queen Margot Robbie and Oscar
00:26nominee Jacob Elordi. And as always we've watched all the news so that you don't have to. So
00:35let's get this show on the road with The Week. And we kick things off with Thursday and the
00:44writing was on the wall for a Reserve Bank interest rate hike after this bad news on inflation.
00:49It's the last thing borrowers wanted to hear and today's inflation figures could spell
00:54trouble for millions. Everything's gone up. Pretty much everything's gone up. 21.5% increase
01:00in electricity over the past 12 months. You know meat, lamb and goat up over 10%.
01:04Electricity and goat? It's always the things you just can't live without. And a real double
01:11whammy for electric goat owners. So who's to blame? The PM? The Treasurer? No. It turns
01:17out it's the usual suspects. Foreigners. The Barmy army spent so much this summer they're
01:23being blamed for nudging up inflation leading to a possible interest rate rise.
01:28Inflation is creeping higher and it's the English who are partly being blamed.
01:34You know I actually blame all rate rises on the English. You know there were no rate rises
01:40in this country before January 26th 1788. Yeah. It's true. It's true. Yeah. Or as I like
01:49to call it, inflation day. But, yeah, better than you think. But don't worry, for savvy
01:56shoppers there are still some good bargains around if you know where to look and who to
02:00ask.
02:01Sydney's underworld has this morning been exposed with police uncovering the shockingly
02:05low price it takes for crooks to commit serious crimes.
02:09Turns out for just $1,000 someone in the underworld can get a victim assaulted or punched for $5,000.
02:16Grievous bodily harm can be carried out. And for $10,000 someone's home can be set on fire.
02:23Yeah, I'll get a grievous bodily harm for the cousins. An arson voucher for Nan. Dad always
02:30wanted a kidnapping. That's Christmas sorted. To Friday and the latest on the Epstein files.
02:37And while the first rule of Fight Club is you do not talk about Fight Club, the first rule of
02:43billionaire perv club is document literally everything.
02:47Millions of pages from the government's file on Jeffrey Epstein now public. The Justice Department
02:53saying it marks their final release and includes thousands of videos and pictures.
02:58More than three million pages of materials and among those more than 182,000 photos and videos.
03:08That's a lot to go through and let me tell you when you do it on the train without headphones
03:12people do
03:13not like it. Some familiar names have returned to the hottest 100 list that no one wants to be on,
03:20like President Trump and whatever Andrew's called now. But there were some new names to add to the
03:26cast. First up, Elon. New emails from 2012 and 2013 show billionaire Elon Musk and Epstein
03:33coordinating a possible visit to the financier's infamous island. The billionaire says the emails
03:39could be misinterpreted and he declined repeated invitations to go. Yeah, these things happen.
03:45You know, it's easy to misread someone's tone on an email. The last thing Elon wanted was to visit some
03:52wild party on Epstein Island. So, so what was in there that got so badly misinterpreted?
03:58And one 2012 email Musk asking what day night will be the wildest party on your island? See, he just
04:05wanted
04:06to know when the wildest party was so he could make extra sure he wouldn't be there. Elon wasn't the
04:13only
04:14billionaire on the list with some huge allegations about Bill Gates. Jeffrey Epstein claimed Bill Gates
04:20caught a sexually transmitted disease from sex with Russian girls and that he planned with the
04:25disgraced financier to secretly slip his wife antibiotics. Yeah, you know, I know how Melinda
04:31feels. Bill Gates gave me a virus too and that was the last time I used Windows 95. Bill Gates
04:39was swift
04:40to respond to the allegations. Gates released a stinging response via statement. These claims from a proven
04:46disgruntled liar, he says, are absolutely absurd and completely false. A stinging response. That was the
04:53whole reason for the antibiotics in the first place. Coming up, Nick Cody explains why the UFC is more
04:59powerful than the G7. Margaret Pomerantz warms herself by the Aussie shore bin fire and Alexei
05:04Toliopoulos sits down with the stars of Wuthering Heights. But first, this year's crop of celebrities
05:10heading into the jungle has given Channel 10 a surprise opportunity for some hard-hitting journalism.
05:15He's the disgraced restaurateur who dobbed in his own company after it underpaid staff millions of
05:23dollars. The sacked MasterChef host who got in an altercation with a soccer fan after they said
05:29something about his mum. But it seems George Columbaris is just the type of reprobate Channel 10 want on
05:37their screens for children to watch at seven o'clock at night. And they have the gall to call him
05:43a
05:44celebrity. The weekly hired veteran red carpet curveballer Ange Bishop to put the hard questions
05:50to the little man in To Catch a Celebrity. George Columbaris and his company ordered to pay
05:597.8 million dollars to more than 500 employees who had been underpaid for years. The word wage
06:07thief really upset me. That's because wage thief is two words you wage thief. George had gone from
06:14being one of the top chefs in the world and a massive tv star to being cancelled. It's all over
06:21what have
06:21I got now? What have I got now? And then you start waking up going you've got a daughter,
06:28you've got a wife, you've got a son. Oh the celebrity forgot he had a family.
06:34I did not think you were one of the people that go into the jungle. It's the eighth year they've
06:40asked
06:41and I've always said no but I don't know there was something within me this time around that I went
06:46I don't have a job and I'm desperate. Obviously got a soft spot for Channel 10. Because they're the only
06:53network who'll hire you. I love the beliefs of the show. The fun stuff is all fun and
06:59eating a penis. The plot thickens Columbaris. The opportunity to sit there with other
07:07celebrities who are now my mates. Celebrity mates just sitting around eating penises.
07:12The public that will never love me, that's okay. The public that do love me, I love you back.
07:20Actually you know what, even the public that don't love me, I love you back too.
07:24Newsflash George, nobody cares. Maybe it's fitting Channel 10 are dangling you over rivers and making you
07:31eat crap in the middle of nowhere. Just like the celebrity you are.
07:39To Saturday and in showbiz news, step aside Nicole Kidman, Australia has a new red-haired
07:46cinematic superstar. Pauline Hanson hits Sydney tonight part of a nationwide tour to promote her
07:51new film. It's called a super progressive movie and is described as a satirical dive into Australia's
07:57political and cultural chaos. The animated movie is executive produced by Pauline Hanson who is also
08:03cast in the role of Prime Minister Pauline Hanson. Some suggest she only got the part because she slept
08:09with the executive producer Pauline Hanson. So what's the film actually about? A super progressive
08:15movie is an anti-woke take on Australia and its politics. But what would I know? I'm just a dumb
08:21white guy. My opinion doesn't matter. Amen. You know if there's one thing I know about
08:26Australia it is that there is no place for dumb white guys to express their opinions.
08:32Last week the senator toured the film around the country and for just $129 you could see the flick
08:39plus get a souvenir ticket and have a meet and greet with Pauline. Or even better,
08:45for $0 you could not do any of that.
08:51It's a bargain. But Pauline's movie wasn't the only big premiere this week.
08:56Here we go again. Simply titled Melania, the US first lady's documentary is already causing quite a
09:03stir. Melania hit theaters this Friday taking us inside the 20 days leading up to her husband's
09:09inauguration. Melania said acting in the film was easy thanks to 20 years of experience pretending
09:14not to be repulsed by her husband. So what can we expect from the movie? A lot of scenes of
09:20Melania
09:21Trump walking. She walks through St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York. She walks through the inauguration.
09:27She walks and walks and walks with the camera dutifully following her. But for a movie that
09:32walks so much it really never goes anywhere. She doesn't consider this a documentary. No,
09:37she said it's not a documentary it's a created experience. It's one of the most blatant pieces
09:42of propaganda I think I can imagine. It was, I mean it's the sort of thing you'd expect from like
09:47North Korea.
09:48Well, no, no, no, no, hang on a minute. That is actually something I would go and see.
09:55Ahead of its release the film wasn't exactly setting the box office on fire. Early ticket sales for
10:01the new documentary Melania not pointing to a blockbuster at this time. One guy said I'd rather
10:06have a crushed glass and Tabasco enema than see the Melania film. Writes one commentator,
10:11if they showed this on a plane people would still walk out.
10:15Writes has reportedly sold just one pre-sale ticket for the film. Only one pre-sale ticket. Well,
10:21I guess that means I'll have the whole cinema to myself. But it doesn't matter how bad the movie is
10:30or how badly the movie bombs because the point of the movie isn't the movie at all. The documentary
10:36was bought by Amazon for 40 million dollars, the most it's ever paid to secure the distribution of a
10:42single film. Some see this as an attempt by Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to curry favour with the Trump clan.
10:49Currying favour with world leaders by releasing docos about their loved ones who like walking
10:56is exactly why we keep making Albo's f***ing dog.
11:01APPLAUSE
11:04To Sunday and the Australian Open wrapped up with Elena Rybakina and Carlos Alcaraz taking out the
11:10singles titles. But the big winner was Kia Australia chief executive Damien Meredith,
11:15who had the crowd in the palm of his hand. Kia stands as a global leader in mobility and in
11:22shaping the future.
11:25Hey, if you find affordable family cars with a seven-year warranty boring, then maybe Grand
11:30Slam tennis just isn't for you, pal.
11:33But behind the scenes, the Australian Open has been anything but boring.
11:37It was supposed to be a private moment. American tennis star Coco Gauff smashing a racket in
11:43frustration. Commentators and the whole world, though, watching it happen live.
11:48Wow.
11:49She expressed displeasure that that footage was aired. And now other players are speaking out,
11:54pushing for an end to constant filming.
11:57We have to stop with these cameras. Like, this is crazy.
12:00Are we tennis players or are we like animals in the zoo where they are observed like even when they
12:06poop?
12:06It's really sad that you, you know, you can't basically move away anywhere and hide.
12:12Well, if players want a bit of privacy, they can always go to the Melania movie.
12:22Staying on sport and some huge UFC news over the weekend, Australian UFC featherweight Alexander
12:27Volkanovski made history in Sydney, defending his world title for a record eighth time, prompting this
12:33charming headline, Aussie makes history, et cetera.
12:39On top of that, France has reportedly delayed this year's G7 summit to fit in with a planned
12:46UFC fight at the White House for Donald Trump's birthday. And I'll just give you a second to let
12:51that full sentence sink in. To help us make sense of the UFC's place in the world, please welcome our
12:57instant expert, Nick Cody.
13:03G'day, Charlie. Yep, the UFC, ultimate fighting championship, MMA, the reason your partner goes
13:09missing in a pub for five hours on a Sunday, whatever you want to call it, I love it.
13:13Right, and how might you explain it to a buttoned up legacy media darling who's a bit spooked by it?
13:19Uh, asking for a friend. Look Charlie, the UFC is one of the most egalitarian and diverse sports
13:25in the world. Let me explain. The biggest event in UFC history was headlined by a Dagestani Muslim
13:31and an Irish Catholic in Las Vegas. I mean, you add a rabbi to that and you've got the beginnings
13:36of a very good joke. The most accomplished female fighter of all time, Amanda Nunez, is an openly gay
13:42athlete whose wife Nina is also a UFC fighter. Finally, an actual power couple. And take our
13:51homegrown champ, Alex Volkanovski. When he's not in the cage battling it out against the best fighters,
13:55he's doing exactly what you'd expect. Hosting a YouTube cooking channel. See, Charlie,
14:02Volk's just a food nerd with a ring light. You saw him backstage after his fight on Sunday. Did you
14:07call him that to his face? Absolutely not. I'm a coward. The best part about cooking with Volk though,
14:14is that even if he gets a concussion, he can just whip up an easier dish. Alright, Vegemite on toast.
14:24But my favourite UFC backstory is female Chinese fighter Shi Ming, who won a fight by head kick
14:29knockout, then said her parents don't know that she's a fighter because her day job is a doctor.
14:37No need for a general anaesthetic, who doosh your dog. Right, but surely the whole sport can't be
14:44doctors and cordon bleu chefs. Fine Charlie, I must admit not everyone in the sport is a well-managed
14:51scholar. Take Bryce Mitchell for instance. I really do think before Hitler got on meth,
14:56he was a guy to go fishing with. Wow. He's a history buff as well. But what makes the UFC
15:03great is that when
15:04a fighter says something cooked, there are no fake apologies, sensitivity training or pretending these
15:09people are role models. UFC CEO and President Dana White will just admonish them publicly.
15:14Let's not forget that this is a guy who took a drill through his nutsack,
15:19then had to reverse it and put the drill back out of his. That's the level of stupid that we're
15:26talking about here. And I could probably go on for 10 minutes talking about how dumb Bryce Mitchell is.
15:31Inspirational. Inspirational. I am convinced that this is a sport worthy of your love, Nick,
15:36but is it important enough to reschedule the G7 summit so Trump can have a fight at the White House?
15:42It's the day Trump turns 80 Charlie. No one wants to be in meetings on their 80th. Get this octogenarian
15:48an octagon. I don't agree with Trump on anything, but as a bloke from Melbourne's western suburbs,
15:55hosting a night of punch-ons on your front lawn for your birthday party? That's actually pretty grouse.
16:00Fair enough. Yes. You could catch Nick's new stand-up show,
16:05Crusher, touring nationally. Would you please thank Nick Cody?
16:14Coming up, registered cinephile Alexei Toliopoulos sits down with Aussie superstars Margot Robbie and Jacob
16:20Bellordi. But first, in uncertain times, there are two things you can always rely on. Reality TV shows
16:26bringing out the best in people and Margaret Pomerantz having firm views about it. Returning for 2026,
16:33here's The Week in TV.
16:39Good evening, I'm Margaret Pomerantz. And I always carry a hammer in case I need to hang a picture or
16:45gather intel from a hostile. Since its advent, television has chronicled humanity's great
16:51milestones, uniting viewers in moments of joy, tragedy and social import. Now the small screen has
16:58cast aside such trivial frivolities in pursuit of its true purpose, watching dipshits get wasted and
17:06root each other. This is Paramount Plus show, Aussie Shore.
17:11Always half naked boys, girls, what's not to love?
17:15Sourced from Australia's finest STI clinics, the show follows horned up young people living together
17:22in the cultural hub of Cairns. And it's an inspired cast representing the top tier of society.
17:30I'm ready to get f***ing shit-tasted. They're classy ladies. I love farts. I have dietary requirements.
17:36Cock only. The only diet I've tried were I never took a cheat day. Each episode, the cast navigate
17:43daily life with illuminating conversation revealing hopes, dreams and multi-faceted personalities.
17:50I'm hoping chicks will have their tits out. My tits are talking to me. You know one time I shat
17:54in my backyard.
17:54Which is still the best way I've found to fertilise my petunias. But the show isn't all debauched
18:00horndoggery and people urinating in public. Let's f***ing party. As the show progresses,
18:06the cast reveal deeply curious minds, with poignant inquiry exposing an unquenchable thirst for knowledge.
18:14What's a swan? It's your cock in my back. Why are you wearing undies?
18:18But at Aussie Shore's core is romance, as poetic souls exhibit unrivalled expertise in the noble art
18:26of seduction. I love your nose. I've got mud in my box. My nails look like a f***ing finger in
18:31my
18:32arsehole. I need a sausage in my hot dog. While watching participants point their jats crackers at
18:37the sky, one may ponder how and when this became television. We're in the f***ing Aussie Shore house.
18:43If you can't get your d*** out then f*** off. But one respects the graft as people with no discernible
18:49talents forge pseudo-media careers using whatever skills at their disposal. I'm really good queef off.
18:57Can you queef now? Which is the same way I blow out my birthday candles. Join me next week when
19:06I
19:06watch the World Toe Wrestling Championships. The three-time world champion. I mean, how is this
19:13one going to go down? Oh my goodness, oh my god, that is a touch. That is incredible.
19:19I'm Margaret Pomerantz. Good evening.
19:23Whipped. Sloppy. Strings.
19:26Double walnut.
19:28Lovely stuff. To Monday and some exciting news about the upcoming Winter Olympics in Italy.
19:33They're rolling out a brand new event. It's called Ski Mountaineering or SkiMo.
19:39It combines climbing up mountains and skiing back down. Ah, climbing up mountains and skiing back
19:46down. Or as my granddad called it, skiing. But there's also another more controversial debut
19:53planned for the games. Ice agents will have a security role during the upcoming Olympic Winter
19:58Games in Italy. The United States has announced it will send immigration enforcement teams to this
20:05year's Winter Olympics. A move that has angered and confused host nation Italy. But don't worry,
20:12Ice insists all agents have undergone cultural sensitivity training by watching an old VHS copy of
20:17Cool Runnings. Nonetheless, the host nation had its doubts. Italian lawmakers are calling for the
20:24country's Prime Minister to intervene. The mayor of Milan in Italy says US ICE immigration officers
20:30are not welcome in the city. I don't think that they're compatible with our ways of handling such
20:35a delicate issue as security. Ice's standard procedure has been to detain anyone with a tan or an
20:42accent. So they'll simply be arresting the entire population of Italy. Moving through to Tuesday and
20:49some shocking street violence in Melbourne. Violence has spilled out onto Melbourne's notorious King
20:54Street where two men have been involved in a bizarre fight with bouncers. This outburst outside a
21:02gentleman's club has set the internet alight. And so this video right here, chef's kiss. After a man booted
21:09from the bar became collateral damage. The weapon, a chair. The incident at the strip club was recorded
21:17from more angles than the Kennedy assassination. And there are rumors of a second chair thrower stationed
21:23on the grassy pole. It all kicked off when two men were ejected for starting a fight. Once outside,
21:36things escalated quickly. Once he figured out how to get past the automatic door, he grabbed a new weapon
21:42from the dining room. He took it outside and flung it down the street towards the bar entrance. But it
21:47struck his mate, who was back down on the footpath again. Security guards can't help but laugh, suspecting
21:54the missile was meant for them. And the thrower's reaction to his disastrous miscalculation clear.
22:02That poor guy just can't believe that starting a fight in a strip club could somehow go horribly wrong.
22:09Now, I know what you're wondering, is everyone all right? Well, don't worry. Channel 7 has you covered.
22:15It's understood no one called police or an ambulance. The chair is still standing.
22:21Time now to head to Hollywood and our resident film nerd, Alexei Tolliopoulos. He's there to
22:26interview the stars of the new film, Wuthering Heights. He'll tell you all about it. I wasn't
22:30even there. Alexei? Thank you, Charlie. Now allow me to take you backwards into time 179 years ago and
22:37introduce you to Emily Bronte, the one-hit wonder author of Wuthering Heights, her only book. It's been
22:43adapted many, many times for the big screen and its latest adaptation is from director Emerald Fennell,
22:49who has made salt burnt and promising young woman. This new adaptation is a bold vision that captures
22:55those weird feelings you get when you fall in love with a book as a teenager that makes you kind
22:59of
23:00freaking horny. It stars Australian actors Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie. And here I am talking to them,
23:09interview style. I first read Wuthering Heights as part of the premier's reading challenge.
23:14Did you guys study this book in school? Did you have a prior relationship with it?
23:18He did. I didn't. Yeah, I remember doing it at school, but I was just defiant. So I thought that
23:24it was, you know, it was handed down from the powers that be. So I thought it was smut.
23:29You know, I didn't want to even do it. Wait, did you guys have scholastic?
23:33Yeah, absolutely. You put your order in, get your pens, yeah. God, that was exciting. I loved it.
23:39Margot, I think there's this moment of change that really struck me in this film,
23:42this wonderful scene in the rain. You're going through a loss in the morning. You mean when I'm
23:46like walking through the rain and he's like, ah, fair behind it. Yeah. What you can't see is that my
23:51dress
23:51that is made of 6,000 layers of tulle is now soaking wet, being under the rain machine. Tulle
23:57quite absorbing, I would say. Tulle actually captures every stick, every thorn and bramble.
24:03I was carrying the moors with me, just out of rain. It was like these like clawed, I mean,
24:09the moors. She'd be like, start the scene. But I was like, by the end, I'm like trying to like,
24:14I was like moving in slow might and it was literally holding me back in something I was
24:18like fighting against, which is, again, wonderful. It becomes metaphorical at a certain point as well,
24:22I guess. Exactly. It was practically metaphorical at that point. In Australia,
24:25ABC TV audience will be very familiar with Martin Plune from freaking Doc Martin. And he
24:31has a wild performance in this. Can you talk about collaborating with him? A what performance?
24:35A wild. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Wild. He said wild. He does. He's unbelievable that there's
24:42one scene when Kathy goes back to see her dad and he's like, almost become a part of the house.
24:48And there's this one bit where he goes, and the note Emerald gave him was play it like a prom
24:52queen.
24:53And his line is, you know, she says, I came to see how you are. And he says, well,
24:56how did you find me? And he just goes, and how do you find me? And it was so good.
25:02And like,
25:02it, oh, we all just squealed. Amazing actor. Margot, to put your producer hat back on for a moment
25:08as well. This is a production from your production company, Lucky Chap. There's like this strong focus
25:13to make this theatrical cinematic release rather than go into streaming. Why is that so important
25:19with a film like this? I really, really fiercely believe in the theatrical experience. You can
25:24never get your first time back. You can never get that first experience back. And so for me,
25:28I just, I want everyone to always have that in a cinema if possible. So yeah, it was a choice
25:32we made.
25:33And, and, uh, yeah, I, I'd stand by that choice every time, especially for a movie like this.
25:38The way I always put it is like, you don't need to go to church to pray, but it's so
25:42much nicer to be there.
25:43Yeah. That's a great, that's a great point. Yeah.
25:45What's your book there? What are you doing?
25:47Well, it's actually the movie tie-in of Robin Heights. Well, that's you guys. That's the poster.
25:52Yeah. I've had this ever since I was a kid.
25:56A guy in a khaki suit gave it to me one day. This is going to mean a lot to
25:59you. Hang on to it.
26:01But thank you so much for speaking with me today, guys. We really appreciate it.
26:07And so we arrive on Wednesday. Now, some of your mums might be a bit like mine.
26:12She likes to send me those quirky little stories that give her a bit of a giggle.
26:15So let's see what she sent me this week. It's stories my mum sent me.
26:23All right. Let's see, uh, what mum has sent this week. Oh yeah. Okay. Good, good, good.
26:29Uh, 15,000 crabs have been set free after a truck crashed into a ditch in Ireland. Experts
26:37say it was the highest concentration of crabs in one place since the last season of Married
26:42at First Science. Fun fact, can't argue with science. Um, oh. To celebrate Easter, Coles has
26:50unveiled a new Doritos-inspired cheesy jalapeno hot cross bun. For its efforts, Coles has been praised for
26:57finding something worse for the human body than crucifixion.
27:06A group of Buddhist monks are walking their rescue dog around America to promote peace. Things were going
27:12well until the dog bit a toddler and had to be sent to the vet for reincarnation.
27:22He's going to come back as a monk. Uh, uh, a fatberg the size of four buses is likely to
27:29have birthed
27:30the poo balls that closed Sydney beaches last year. We're pleased to say that both mum and poo balls
27:36are doing well.
27:40And finally, doctors in China have reattached a woman's ear after it was grafted to her foot for
27:47five months to restore blood flow. The surgery was a success, but the woman says she will miss
27:53hearing those long walks on the beach. And that story's my mum sent me.
28:03That's all for tonight. Would you please thank Margaret Pomerantz, Alexi Toliopoulos, Nick Cody,
28:07Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi. We will be back next week with Nicolette Minster, Kevin McLeod and
28:14Tim Ross. And if you would like to be in our studio audience, just scan the code on your screen
28:19right now.
28:20Until next week on behalf of the team. Thanks for watching. I'm Charlie Pickering. Good night.
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