Spicks & Specks is celebrating 20 years of being on our screens this June with a brand-new platinum season. According to a press release, the forthcoming season will be home to “more music, more mayhem, more often.”

Comedian and host Adam Hills asked Australia to play Spicks & Specks 20 years ago today. Now, he’s back with a new season with Myf Warhurst and Alan Brough, with the series returning to our screens on Sunday, 15 June, at 7:30 pm. You can tune in via ABC TV or ABC iView.

The 20th anniversary season will bring back fan-favourite games such as Know Your Product, Substitute, and Sir Mix N Matchalot, and introduce new games, including Frank Pinata, Musical Chers, and Will.A.I.am Shakespeare. Still cheeky and fun.

Australian music stars like Marcia Hines, Megan Washington, Kram, Lucy Durack, and Robert Forster will play the games alongside comedians and entertainers Julia Morris, Tom Ballard, Dave O’Neil, and Sara Pascoe.

That’s not all, though: Spicks & Specks wouldn’t be Spicks & Specks without some live music, and this year’s line-up is stacked with talent celebrating decades of music. This season will go from The Living End and Spiderbait to Pseudo Echo to Paul Kelly, Emma Donovan to Montaigne to Barry Morgan and his organ.

You can watch previous seasons of Spicks & Specks ahead of the new season premiering via ABC iView. Head down memory lane and enjoy a compilation of Adam Hills’ best intros below.

After taking a break in 2023, Spicks & Specks returned to the ABC last year.

In a 2022 interview with The Music, Hills discussed the new seasons of Spicks & Specks and commented on the show's staying power.

“It keeps finding a new generation of fans,” Hills explained. “Even when my kids were little, they'd watch In The Night Garden, and then they'd ask if they could stay up to watch daddy on Spicks & Specks. It's pretty hard to say ‘no’ to that.”

He added, “When we first started making Spicks & Specks, musicians got really nervous around the time of the game we called ‘Substitute’, where you have to sing words from a book, but to a well-known song. And the musicians used to hate it because they were like, ‘Well, this isn't my song. I feel awkward.’

“Whereas now, we're getting people in their early 20s coming on, and they're like, ‘Oh, I used to do this in my bedroom when I was seven, at parties. I know exactly how to play ‘Substitute’.”

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