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00:11Hello and welcome to The Weekly. I'm Charlie Pickering. A huge show for you tonight. Margaret
00:16Pomerance 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. Elordi indeed. And as always we've watched all the news so that you don't
00:34have to so let's get this show on the road with The Week. And we kick things off with Thursday
00:43and the writing was on the wall for a Reserve Bank interest rate hike after this bad news
00:48on inflation. It's the last thing borrowers wanted to hear and today's inflation figures
00:53could spell trouble for millions. Everything's gone up. Pretty much everything's gone up.
00:5821.5% increase in electricity over the past 12 months. You know meat, lamb and goat up over
01:0310%. Electricity 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 out
01:17it's the usual suspects. Foreigners. The Barmy Army spent so much this summer they're being blamed
01:24for nudging up inflation leading to a possible interest rate rise. Inflation is creeping higher
01:30and it's the English who are partly being blamed. Yeah you know I actually blame all rate rises on the
01:37English. You know there were no rate rises in this country before January 26th 1788. Yeah it's true.
01:46It's true. Yeah. Or as I like to call it inflation day. But yeah better than you think. But don't
01:55worry
01:55for savvy shoppers there are still some good bargains around if you know where to look and who to ask.
02:01Sydney's underworld has this morning been exposed with police uncovering the shockingly low price it
02:06takes for crooks to commit serious crimes. Turns out for just $1,000 someone in the underworld can
02:12get a victim assaulted or punched for $5,000. Grievous bodily harm can be carried out and for $10,000
02:20someone's home can be set on fire. Yeah I'll get a grievous bodily harm for the cousins. An arson voucher
02:28for Nan.
02:29Dad always wanted 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. Millions of pages from the government's
02:49file on Jeffrey Epstein now public. The Justice Department saying it marks their final release
02:55and includes thousands of videos and pictures. More than three million pages of materials and among
03:03those more than 182,000 photos and videos. That's a lot to go through and let me tell you when
03:11you do it
03:11on the train without headphones people do not like it. Some familiar names have returned to the hottest
03:18100 list that no one wants to be on like President Trump and whatever Andrew's called now. But there
03:24were some new names to add to the cast. First up Elon. New emails from 2012 and 2013 show billionaire
03:31Elon Musk and Epstein coordinating a possible visit to the financier's infamous island. The billionaire
03:38says the emails could be misinterpreted and he declined repeated invitations to go.
03:44Yeah, these things happen. You know, it's easy to misread someone's tone on an email. The last thing
03:50Elon wanted was to visit some wild party on Epstein Island. So, so what was in there that got so
03:56badly
03:57misinterpreted? In one 2012 email, Musk asking, what day night will be the wildest party on your island?
04:03See? He just wanted to know when the wildest party was so he could make extra sure he wouldn't be
04:11there.
04:12Elon wasn't the only billionaire on the list with some huge allegations about Bill Gates.
04:17Jeffrey Epstein claimed Bill Gates caught a sexually transmitted disease from sex with Russian girls and
04:24that he planned with the disgraced financier to secretly slip his wife antibiotics.
04:29Yeah, you know, I know how Melinda feels. Bill Gates gave me a virus too and that was the last
04:35time I used Windows 95.
04:38Bill Gates was swift to respond to the allegations.
04:42Gates released a stinging response via statement. These claims from a proven disgruntled liar, he says,
04:48are absolutely absurd and completely false.
04:51A stinging response. That was the whole reason for the antibiotics in the first place.
04:56Coming up, Nick Cody explains why the UFC is more powerful than the G7.
05:00Margaret Pomerantz warms herself by the Aussie shore bin fire.
05:04And Alexei Toliopoulos sits down with the stars of Wuthering Heights.
05:07But first, this year's crop of celebrities heading into the jungle has given Channel 10 a surprise
05:13opportunity for some hard hitting journalism. He's the disgraced restaurateur who dobbed in his own
05:19company after it underpaid staff millions of dollars. The sacked Masterchef host who got in an
05:26altercation with a soccer fan after they said something about his mum. But it seems George
05:33Columbaris is just the type of reprobate Channel 10 want on their screens for children to watch at
05:40seven o'clock at night and they have the gall to call him a celebrity. The weekly hired veteran
05:46red carpet curveballer Ange Bishop to put the hard questions to the little man in To Catch a Celebrity.
05:56George Columbaris and his company ordered to pay $7.8 million to more than 500 employees
06:03who had been underpaid for years. The word wage thief really upset me.
06:09That's because wage thief is two words, you wage thief. George had gone from being one of the top
06:15chefs in the world and a massive TV star to being cancelled. It's all over. What have I got now?
06:22What have I got now? And then you start waking up going, you've got a daughter, you've got a wife,
06:29you've got a son. Oh the celebrity forgot he had a family. I did not think you were one of
06:36the
06:36people that go into the jungle. It's the eighth year they've asked and I've always said no,
06:43but I don't know there was something within me this time around that I went, I don't have a job
06:48and I'm desperate. I've obviously got a soft spot for Channel 10. Because they're the only network
06:53who hire you. I love the beliefs of the show. The fun stuff is all fun and eating a penis.
07:01The plot
07:01thickens Columbaris. The opportunity to sit there with other celebrities who are now my mates. Celebrity
07:09mates just sitting around eating penises. The public that will never love me, that's okay. The public
07:17that do love me, I love you back. Actually you know what, even the public that don't love me, I
07:22love you
07:23back too. News flash George, nobody cares. Maybe it's fitting Channel 10 are dangling you over rivers and
07:31making you eat 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
07:45cinematic superstar. Pauline Hanson hits Sydney tonight, part of a nationwide tour to promote
07:50her new film. It's called a super progressive movie and is described as a satirical dive into
07:56Australia's political and cultural chaos. The animated movie is executive produced by Pauline
08:02Hanson, who is also cast in the role of Prime Minister Pauline Hanson. Some suggest she only
08:08got the part because she slept with the executive producer Pauline Hanson. So what's the film actually
08:14about? A super progressive movie is an anti-woke take on Australia and its politics.
08:20But what would I know? I'm just a dumb white guy. My opinion doesn't matter.
08:23Amen. You know, if there's one thing I know about Australia, it is that there is no place for dumb
08:29white guys to express their opinions. Last week the Senator toured the film around the country and for
08:36just $129 you could see the flick, plus get a souvenir ticket and have a meet and greet with Pauline.
08:43Or even better, for $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 stir.
09:04Melania hit theatres this Friday, taking us inside the 20 days, leading up to her husband's inauguration.
09:10Melania said acting in the film was easy, thanks to 20 years of experience pretending not to be
09:14repulsed by her husband. So what can we expect from the movie?
09:19A lot of scenes of Melania Trump walking. She walks through St. Patrick's Cathedral in New York.
09:25She walks through the inauguration. She walks and walks and walks with the camera,
09:29dutifully following her. But for a movie that walks so much, it really never goes anywhere.
09:34She doesn't consider this a documentary. No, she said it's not a documentary. It's a created experience.
09:40It's one of the most blatant pieces of propaganda, I think, I can imagine. It was,
09:45I mean, it's the sort of thing you'd expect from, like, North 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.
09:59Early ticket sales for the new documentary Melania, not pointing to a blockbuster at this time.
10:05One guy said I'd rather have a crushed glass and Tabasco enema than see the Melania film.
10:10Writes one commentator, if they showed this on a plane, people would still walk out.
10:15Hoyts has reportedly sold just one presale ticket for the film.
10:19Only one presale ticket. Well, I guess that means I'll have the whole cinema to myself.
10:27But it doesn't matter how bad the movie is or how badly the movie bombs,
10:32because the point of the movie isn't the movie at all.
10:35The documentary was bought by Amazon for $40 million,
10:38the most it's ever paid to secure the distribution of a single film.
10:43Some 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.
11:04To 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.
11:17Kia stands as a global leader in mobility and in shaping the future.
11:25Hey, if you find affordable family cars with a seven-year warranty boring,
11:29then maybe Grand Slam 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. We 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
12:05poop?
12:06It's really sad that you, you know, you can't basically move away anywhere and hide.
12:11Well, if players want a bit of privacy, they can always go to the Melania movie.
12:17Mmm.
12:21Standing on Sport and some huge UFC news over the weekend, Australian UFC featherweight
12:26Alexander Volkanovski made history in Sydney, defending his world title for a record eighth
12:32time, prompting this charming headline. On top of that, France has reportedly delayed this year's G7
12:43summit to fit in with a planned UFC fight at the White House for Donald Trump's birthday. And I'll
12:50just give you a second to let that full sentence sink in. To help us make sense of the USC's
12:55place
12:56in the world, please welcome our instant expert, Nick Cody. G'day, Charlie. Yep, the UFC,
13:05ultimate fighting championship, MMA, the reason your partner goes missing at a pub for five hours
13:10on a Sunday, whatever you want to call it, I love it. Right, and how might you explain it to
13:15a
13:15buttoned up legacy media darling who's a bit spooked by it? Asking for a friend. Look, Charlie,
13:22the UFC is one of the most egalitarian and diverse sports in the world. Let me explain. The biggest
13:28event in UFC history was headlined by a Dagestani Muslim and an Irish Catholic in Las Vegas. I mean,
13:34you add a rabbi to that and you've got the beginnings of a very good joke. The most accomplished female
13:39fighter of all time, Amanda Nunez, is an openly gay athlete whose wife, Nina, is also a UFC fighter.
13:46Finally, an actual power couple. And take our homegrown champ, Alex Volkanovski. When he's not in
13:53the cage battling it out against the best fighters, he's doing exactly what you'd expect, hosting a
13:59YouTube cooking channel. See, Charlie, Volk's just a food nerd with a ring light. You saw him
14:04backstage after his fight on Sunday. Did you call him that to his face? Absolutely not. I'm a coward.
14:12The best part about cooking with Volk, though, is that even if he gets a concussion, he can just whip
14:16up an easier dish. All right. Vegemite on toast. But my favorite UFC backstory is female Chinese
14:27fighter Shi Ming, who won a fight by head kick knockout, then said her parents don't know that
14:32she's a fighter because her day job is a doctor. No need for a general anesthetic.
14:40Right, but surely the whole sport can't be doctors and cordon bleu chefs.
14:46Fine, Charlie, I must admit, not everyone in the sport is a well-managed scholar. Take
14:52Bryce Mitchell, for instance. I really do think before Hitler got on meth, he was a guy to go
14:56fishing with. Wow. He's a history buff as well. But what makes the UFC great is that when a fighter
15:05says something cooked, there are no fake apologies, sensitivity training or pretending these people
15:09are role models. UFC CEO and President Dana White will just admonish them publicly. Let's not forget
15:15that this is a guy who took a drill through his nutsack, then had to reverse it and put the
15:22drill
15:22back out of his nuts. That's the level of stupid that we're talking about here. And I could probably
15:28go on for 10 minutes talking about how dumb Bryce Mitchell is. Inspirational. Inspirational. I am
15:33convinced that this is a sport worthy of your love, Nick. But is it important enough to reschedule the
15:38G7 summit so Trump can have a fight at the White House? It's the day Trump turns 80, Charlie. No
15:45one wants to
15:45be in meetings on their 80th. Get this octogenarian an octagon. I don't agree with Trump on anything.
15:53But as a bloke from Melbourne's western suburbs, hosting a night of punch-ons on your front lawn
15:57for your birthday party? That's actually pretty grouse. Fair enough. Yes. You can catch Nick's new
16:15The registered cinephile Alexei Toliopoulos sits down with Aussie superstars Margot Robbie and Jacob
16:20Elordi. 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. Good evening, I'm Margaret Pomerantz and I always carry a hammer in case I need
16:43to hang
16:44a picture or gather intel from a hostile. Since its advent, television has chronicled humanity's
16:50great milestones, uniting viewers in moments of joy, tragedy and social import. Now the small screen
16:58has cast aside such trivial frivolities in pursuit of its true purpose, watching dipshits get wasted
17:05and root each other. This is Paramount Plus show Aussie Shore.
17:12Always half-naked boys, girls, what sorts of 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.
17:36The only diet I've tried where I never took a cheat day. Each episode, the cast navigate daily life
17:43with 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? Is that 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've got mud in my box. Like my nails look like a f***ing thing in my arsehole.
18:32I need a sausage in my hot dog. While watching participants point their jats crackers at the sky,
18:38one may ponder how and when this became television. We're in the f***ing Aussie Shore house. If you can't
18:44get your d*** out then f*** off. But one respects the graft as people with no discernible talents
18:50forge pseudo media careers using whatever skills at their disposal. I'm really good queef up.
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's 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. I'm Margaret
19:20Pomerantz. Good evening.
19:23Wet, sloppy, strings.
19:26Lovely 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. It combines climbing up mountains and skiing
19:42back down.
19:43Ah, climbing up mountains and skiing back down. Or as my granddad called it, skiing.
19:50But there's also another more controversial debut planned for the games.
19:54Ice agents will have a security role during the upcoming Olympic Winter Games in Italy.
19:59The United States has announced it will send immigration enforcement teams to this year's
20:05Winter Olympics, a move that has angered and confused host nation Italy.
20:11Yeah, but don't worry. Ice insists all agents have undergone cultural sensitivity training by watching an old VHS copy of
20:17Cool Runnings.
20:19Nonetheless, the host nation had its doubts.
20:22Italian lawmakers are calling for the country's prime minister to intervene.
20:26The mayor of Milan in Italy says US ICE immigration officers are not welcome in the city.
20:31I don't think that they're compatible with our ways of handling such a delicate issue as security.
20:38ICE's standard procedure has been to detain anyone with a tan or an accent.
20:43So they'll simply be arresting the entire population of Italy.
20:47Moving through to Tuesday and some shocking street violence in Melbourne.
20:51Violence has spilled out onto Melbourne's notorious King Street, where two men have been involved
20:57in a bizarre fight with bouncers.
20:59This outburst outside a gentleman's club has set the internet alight.
21:05And so this video right here, chef's kiss.
21:08After a man booted from the bar became collateral damage, the weapon, a chair.
21:14The incident at the strip club was recorded from more angles than the Kennedy assassination.
21:20And there are rumours of a second chair thrower stationed on the grassy pole.
21:30It all kicked off when two men were ejected for starting a fight.
21:35Once outside, things escalated quickly.
21:37Once he figured out how to get past the automatic door, he grabbed a new weapon from the dining room.
21:43He took it outside and flung it down the street towards the bar entrance.
21:46But it struck his mate, who was back down on the footpath again.
21:51Security guards can't help but laugh, suspecting the missile was meant for them.
21:56And 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 alright?
22:12Well, don't worry, Channel 7 has you covered.
22:15It's understood no one called police or an ambulance.
22:18The chair is still standing.
22:21Time now to head to Hollywood and our resident film nerd, Alexei Toliopoulos.
22:25He's there to interview the stars of the new film, Wuthering Heights.
22:28He'll tell you all about it. I wasn't even there. Alexei?
22:31Thank you, Charlie. Now allow me to take you backwards into time 179 years ago and introduce you to Emily
22:38Bronte,
22:39the one-hit wonder author of Wuthering Heights, her only book.
22:43It's been adapted many, many times for the big screen and its latest adaptation is from director Emerald Fennell,
22:49who has made Salt Burn and Promising Young Woman.
22:52This new adaptation is a bold vision that captures those weird feelings you get when you fall in love with
22:58a book as a teenager
22:58that makes you kind of freaking horny.
23:01It stars Australian actors Jacob Elordi and Margot Robbie.
23:06And here I am talking to them, interview style.
23:10I first read Wuthering Heights as part of the premier's reading challenge.
23:14Did you guys study this book in school?
23:16Did you have a prior relationship with it?
23:18He did. I didn't.
23:19Yeah, I remember doing it at school, but I was just defiant.
23:23So I thought that it was, you know, it was handed down from the powers that be.
23:27So I thought it was smut.
23:29You know, I didn't want to even do it.
23:32Wait, did you guys have Scholastic?
23:33Oh, absolutely.
23:34In the book there?
23:35Yeah, you put your order in, get your pens, yeah.
23:37God, that was exciting.
23:39I loved it.
23:39Well, Margot, I think there's this moment of change that really struck me in this film,
23:42this wonderful scene in the rain.
23:44You're going through a loss in the morning.
23:46You mean when I'm like walking through the rain and he's like,
23:48Cafe behind it.
23:49Yeah.
23:49What you can't see is that my dress that is made of 6,000 layers of tulle,
23:54now soaking wet, being under the rain machine.
23:56Tulle quite absorbing, I would say.
23:58Tulle actually captures every stick, every thorn and bramble.
24:03I was carrying the moors with me, just out of frame.
24:07It was like these like clawed, I mean the moors.
24:09She'd be like, start the scene and this vine would just.
24:12By the end, I'm like trying to like, I was like moving and slow my,
24:15and it was literally holding me back in something I was like fighting against,
24:19which is again wonderful.
24:20It was metaphorical at a certain point as well, I guess.
24:22Exactly, it was practically metaphorical at that point.
24:24In Australia, ABC TV audience would be very familiar with Martin Clune.
24:27Martin Clune.
24:28Yeah.
24:28From freaking, uh, Doc Martin.
24:30And he has a wild performance in this.
24:33Can you talk about collaborating with him?
24:34A what performance?
24:35A wild, it's like.
24:36Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
24:37A wild, but he said wild.
24:40He does.
24:41It's unbelievable that there's one scene when Kathy goes back to see her dad,
24:44and he's like, almost become a part of the house.
24:47And there's this one bit where he goes,
24:49and the note Emerald gave him was, play it like a prom queen.
24:52And his line is, you know, she says, I came to see how you are.
24:55And he says, well, how did you find me?
24:56And he just goes, and how do you find me?
24:59And it was so good, and like, oh, we all just squealed.
25:04Amazing actor.
25:05Margot, to put your producer hat back on for a moment as well.
25:09This is a production from your production company, Lucky Chap.
25:12There's like this strong focus to make this theatrical cinematic release
25:16rather than go into streaming.
25:18Why is that so important for a film like this?
25:20I really, really fiercely believe in the theatrical experience.
25:24You can never get your first time back.
25:25You can never get that first experience back.
25:27And so for me, I just, I want everyone to always have that in a cinema, if possible.
25:31So, yeah, it was a choice we made.
25:33And yeah, 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,
25:41but it's so much nicer to be there.
25:42Yeah, yeah.
25:43That's a great point.
25:45Yeah.
25:45What's your book there?
25:46What do you got with it?
25:47Well, it's actually the movie tie-in of Robin Heights.
25:49Oh, cool.
25:49Well, that's you guys.
25:50That's the poster.
25:52Cool, man.
25:52That's really cool.
25:53Yeah, I've had this ever since I was a kid.
25:56Yeah, a guy in a cocky suit gave it to me.
25:58One day, this is going to mean a lot to you.
25:59Hang on to it.
26:01Thank you so much for speaking with me today, guys.
26:03Really appreciate it.
26:07And so we arrive on Wednesday.
26:09Now, 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.
26:16It's stories my mum sent me.
26:23All right, let's see what mum has sent this week.
26:27Oh, yeah.
26:28OK, good, good, good.
26:29Uh, 15,000 crabs have been set free after a truck crashed into a ditch in Ireland.
26:36Experts say it was the highest concentration of crabs in one place since the last season
26:41of Married at First Sight.
26:44Fun fact, can't argue with science.
26:46Um, oh.
26:48To celebrate Easter, Coles has unveiled a new Doritos-inspired cheesy jalapeno hot cross bun.
26:55For its efforts, Coles has been praised for finding something worse for the human body
26:59than crucifixion.
27:06A group of Buddhist monks are walking their rescue dog around America to promote peace.
27:11Things were going well 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.
27:24A fatberg the size of four buses is likely to have birthed the poo balls that closed Sydney
27:32beaches last year.
27:33We're pleased to say that both mum and poo balls are doing well.
27:40And finally, doctors in China have reattached a woman's ear after it was grafted to her foot
27:47for five months to restore blood flow.
27:49The surgery was a success, but the woman says she will miss hearing those long walks on the beach.
27:56And that story's what Mum sent me!
28:03That's all for tonight.
28:04Would you please thank Margaret Pomerantz,
28:06Lexi Toliopoulos, Nick Cody, Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi!
28:11We will be back next week with Nicolette Minster, Kevin MacLeod and Tim Ross.
28:15And if you would like to be in our studio audience, just scan the code on your screen right now.
28:20Until next week, on behalf of the team, thanks for watching.
28:22I'm Charlie Pickering. Good night.
28:30CHEERING AND APPLAUSE
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