Well comments on the article are almost 100% favourable , except one mentioning keeping our borders safe, watching too much trump! . 
Good to see him having some fun.
Series 11, Episode 12
Sunday 10 November 7.30pm
Adam, Myf and Alan are joined by Jude Perl, Joel Creasey, Johnny Took, Abbie Chatfield. Plus, western swing with the Canyon Callers and so many Secret Song clues with Brian Mannix. It was a bold producer booker who first booked him on a show!
This season’s secret songs seem super easy compared to previously - a couple seemed obvious within a couple of seconds of the first clue.
ABC has been criticised by the Australian Jewish Association after Spicks & Specks last night featured a singer wearing a “Free Palestine” t-shirt.
Singer-songwriter Adrian Eagle performed the show’s “Secret Song” at the end of the episode, in which a song that has been the subject of clues, is performed as the closing number.
Last night “I Will Survive” was given a ballad rendition, in part reversioned with the words, “We Will Survive” along with a raised fist.
The inclusion of the Free Palestine t-shirt, recorded earlier this year, is likely to put the show on the agenda at the next Senate Estimates hearing in early November, when managing director David Anderson faces his next grilling.
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Series 11, Episode 13
Sunday 17 November 7.30pm
This week there’s a lot to dig - Behani teaches Adam, Myf and Alan the Persian Snap, Tom Cardy dances to PSY, Brian Mannix regales with Countdown stories and Michala Banas tries to reach an invisible top shelf. And special guest Rebecca’s Empire plays the secret song.
Update:
The ABC Ombudsman has cleared Sunday’s episode of Spicks & Specks of breaching editorial standards after a performer wore a “Free Palestine” t-shirt.
The Office of ABC Ombudsman Fiona Cameron received 42 complaints following Sunday’s episode raising the following matters:
- the artist’s t-shirt that said ‘Free Palestine’ was offensive to Jewish people and encouraged Antisemitism
- the song performed was a political protest and was not appropriate in an entertainment program
- the content indicated the ABC was biased against Israel.
Episode 14 - Season Final
Sunday 24 November 7.30pm
Someone let Spicks and Specks out of its cage. Adam, Myf and Alan are joined by Gillian Cosgriff, Jenny Tian, Phil Jamieson, Tom Ballard as they find out why Stephen King’s wife threatened to leave him and what Andrew Lloyd Webber really thought of Cats the Movie. Plus, TISM closes the show in a very TISM way.
New season in 2025
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Myf Warhurst posted on social media today, with a slightly different group photo, to promote tonight’s show.
Before I hoof off to the US for work, letting you know nice and early that the FINAL ep in this new series of #SpicksandSpecks is on tonight, ABC TV 7.30pm. Welcome aboard to @philjamieson @tomcballard @gilliancosgriff @_jennytian and of course my dear friends @adamhillscomedy and Alan Brough. What a way to go out!
Oh and PS, if you miss us already we’ll be seeing you for a new series again next year x
YOU BEAUTY. A classic Australian band TISM have played the Secret Song at the end of the show. I didn’t know they made a comeback.
Quarter two will see Spicks & Specks
The show took out best entertainment program in the 2025 AACTA Industry Awards on Wednesday night.
Myf Warhurst posted on social media yesterday:
https://www.instagram.com/myfwarhurst/p/DFtrcY-SgBC/?img_index=1
Spicks & Specks: 20 Years Young
It was twenty years ago today that Adam Hills asked Australia to play.
Now he is back with Myf Warhurst and Alan Brough for an all-new platinum season of Spicks & Specks on Sunday 15 June at 7.30pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.
Fan fave games Know Your Product, Substitute and Sir Mix N Matchalot return alongside some brand-spankingly new head scratchers with names like Frank Piñata, Musical Chers and Will.A.I.am Shakespeare.
Joining them will be your favourite music stars Megan Washington, Marcia Hines, Kram, Lucy Durack and Robert Forster and some very funny people like Julia Morris, Tom Ballard, Dave O’Neil and Sara Pascoe.
Plus, more great music and performances than you can poke a drumstick at – The Living End, Spiderbait, Montaigne, Paul Kelly, Emma Donovan, Pseudo Echo and Barry Morgan and his organ. That’s right - all the hits from the 1870s, 1990s and today!
Hands on buzzers, it’s time to play Spicks & Specks. More music, more mayhem, more often.
PRODUCTION CREDIT: An Australian Broadcasting Corporation Production.
Executive Producers: Anthony Watt and Rowdie Walden.
ABC Head of Entertainment: Rachel Millar.
For a trip down memory lane of iconic Spicks intros:
Episode 1
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EPISODE 2
SUNDAY 22 JUNE 7.30PM
Natalie Bassingthwaighte, Nina Oyama, Sam Cromack and Steph Tisdell join Alan, Myf and Adam this week to put their musical knowledge to the test. Nina gets to live out her furry fantasies. Steph gets owned by Delta Goodrem. And Sarah Blasko will give you goosebumps to end the show.
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EPISODE 3
SUNDAY 29 JUNE 7.30 PM
It was twenty years ago that Adam Hills asked Australia to play. Now he is back with Myf Warhurst
an squeals, burps and fart sounds be music? Find out in Look Ma, where Solomon Frank sucks the air out of his clarinet while guests Hatchie, Will Gibb, Marcia Hines, and Dave O’Neil try to work out what is going on. And Kate Ceberano brings us a rocking musical medley.
EPISODE 1
Sunday 15 June 7.30pm
Guests are Rhys Nicholson, Charlie Collins, Sara Pascoe and John Pearce from The Wiggles. Performance from The Living End.
Sara Pascoe, eh? Not a bad get for Spicks and Specks. Usually UK based but I wonder if she’s down with her Aussie hubby and his family for a bit?