The Weekly with Charlie Pickering grabs 724,000 on debut
The debut of comedian Charlie Pickering’s new ABC news satire show The Weekly pulled in 724,000 metro viewers at 8.30pm, a result which was up on last week’s audience for the finale of Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell which was watched by 678,000.
Charlie Pickering left Ten’s The Project in April last year and is joined by Tom Gleeson and Kitty Flanagan on the The Weekly.
It went up against Nine’s The Amazing 90s, which aired from 8.45pm, and was watched by 625,000, while Ten’s Wonderland, on from 8.30pm, lured in an audience of 366,000. A second episode of the local drama series was watched by 382,000.
Seven easily won the night with an audience share of 26.6 per cent, ahead of Nine’s share of 20.2 per cent. The ABC claimed third place with a share of 12.5 per cent as Ten settled for a share of 11.1 per cent.
Hey Charlie, relax! Be yourself! You all came across as scared. Fear smells unfunny.
Also – your set sucked– too shiney and literal. Metcalf and others OS have moved the genre on from that. If you’re gonna do news parody you’ve got to pick up where they left off. Put some junk around the desk – I dunno. You’ve got the country’s 2 best comedians on side – youse can come up with some new slant on the genre. And next time I send your producer a load of spec material, at least have the courtesy to send me an acknowledgement that it’s craporoonie
I thought the show was fab! Congrats Charlie!
People are saying he’s just copied John Oliver like that’s a bad thing. Copy away, Charlie. An Aussie photocopy of Last Week Tonight with John Oliver is fine with me.
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Well said Shane 1.0, my thoughts exactly.
Charlie was boring.. was lucky to make it through the whole show. And get rid of the laugh track.
John Oliver is hardly unique and genre-creating himself. All of these shows are inspired by many different sources – past and present. Pickering and co have done a great job and delivered exactly what they said they would.
It’s 4 stars from me.
Margaret?
Charlie is not really funny though.
I found it hilarious. Laughed out loud many times.
Agree about the set being too shiny.
Bloody well done on first effort. Will only improve. its the best in this genre we ahve seen in a long time. well done team TW!
And Charlie’s old employer lost the night entirely. That’s gotta feel good, eh CP?