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The Cheap Seats

The Cheap Seats
★ 8.4/10•2021•M•Comedy•News
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Major news stories, not-so-major news stories, stories involving cats, entertainment, sport and viral videos, it’s a Reader's Digest of world events for a generation who simply don’t want to read.

StatusReturning Series
LanguageEN
First Air DateJul 20, 2021

Episodes

E138m

Episode 1

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and Natasha Exelby.

Jul 20, 2021

E238m

Episode 2

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and returning guest Natasha Exelby.

Jul 27, 2021

E342m

Episode 3

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and gold medallist Ruby Tui.

Aug 3, 2021

E441m

Episode 4

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and bronze-medallist Olympic boxer Harry Garside.

Aug 10, 2021

E538m

Episode 5

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and Survivor’s Kez McGee.

Aug 17, 2021

E641m

Episode 6

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and Urzila Carlson.

Aug 24, 2021

E744m

Episode 7

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and Dilruk Jayasinha.

Aug 31, 2021

E842m

Episode 8

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and Lloyd Langford.

Sep 7, 2021

E940m

Episode 9

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and The Masked Singer host Osher Günsberg.

Sep 14, 2021

E1042m

Episode 10

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and Planet America’s Chas Licciardello.

Sep 21, 2021

E1145m

Episode 11

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and The Masked Singer’s Dave Hughes.

Sep 28, 2021

E1246m

Episode 12

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and Bond superfan Tony Martin.

Oct 5, 2021

E1343m

Episode 13

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and comedians Nina Oyama and Nath Valvo.

Oct 12, 2021

E1446m

Episode 14

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily, English-Channel-swimmer Chloë McCardel and ABC weatherman Nate Byrne.

Oct 19, 2021

E1541m

Episode 15

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and soccer legend turned celebrity chef Archie Thompson.

Oct 26, 2021

E1646m

Episode 16

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and comedian Naomi Higgins.

Nov 2, 2021

E1743m

Episode 17

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and Laura McGoldrick.

Nov 9, 2021

E1841m

Episode 18

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at the week’s major and not-so-major news stories, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs this week are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and music broadcaster Myf Warhurst.

Nov 16, 2021

E1950m

Episode 19

Hosts Melanie Bracewell and Tim McDonald take a look back at 2021, all the way from The Cheap Seats. Along for the laughs are guests Mel Tracina, Titus O’Reily and Natasha Exelby.

Nov 23, 2021

Actors

Melanie Bracewell

Melanie Bracewell

Self - Host

Tim McDonald

Tim McDonald

Self - Host

Mel Tracina

Mel Tracina

Self - Cultural Correspondent

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