The Big Music Quiz is a bigger, flashier Spicks & Specks, without its charm

By Bernard Zuel
Updated August 25 2016 - 3:25am, first published 12:00am
Shouty. People. Everywhere. On The Big Music Quiz. Photo: Supplied
Shouty. People. Everywhere. On The Big Music Quiz. Photo: Supplied
Can you turn it up this much? Darren McMullen, host of the louder, flashier Spicks & Specks, Channel 7's The Big Music Quiz Photo: Supplied
Can you turn it up this much? Darren McMullen, host of the louder, flashier Spicks & Specks, Channel 7's The Big Music Quiz Photo: Supplied
Darren McMullen and a guest far too quiet for The Big Music Quiz Photo: Darren McMullen/Instagram
Darren McMullen and a guest far too quiet for The Big Music Quiz Photo: Darren McMullen/Instagram

Spicks & Specks didn't get that resurrection right, its return without Adam Hills, Myf Warhurst and Alan Brough a pleasant but still damp squib. Turns out there's more to making a music quiz show than silly games, funny retooled versions of hits and shots of Brian Mannix in spandex.

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