Spicks and Specks team to get shake-up | TV

Alyssa Braithwaite | 28th November 2008

Spicks and Specks

TOP-rating music quiz show Spicks and Specks could get a bit of a shake-up next year, says host Adam Hills.

The ABC program is just about to wrap up its fourth season, and consistently ranks among the most watched shows every Wednesday, attracting 1.2 million viewers or more.

Hills, who steers the show each week alongside team captains Myf Warhurst and Alan Brough, said they had become "ridiculously comfortable" and want to make sure it stays fresh heading into its fifth year.

"I would imagine we'll try and change it up a little bit for next year," Hills told AAP.

"The main thing is just fighting getting stale, which I don't think any of us have yet.

"We've got to constantly keep ourselves interested because if we start getting bored then the audience will start getting bored."

Hills said the trio would keep doing the show as long as they were all enjoying it, but if one left they would all follow suit.

"We're certainly not bored with it and we're certainly loving it," he said.

"I think if one of us went, all of us would have to go, because there is such a lovely chemistry between the three of us.

"But I think the show's good enough that if Alan, Myf and I left you could get two more team captains and another host and it would still be a great show. I may have just given the ABC some ideas."

The gang will record their annual end of year show - A Very Specky Christmas - next week, before heading out on the road for a reprise of their successful live show, The Spicks and Speck-tacular.

On the last tour they played to more than 85,000 people in sold out shows around the country.

This time they're going regional, stopping in Canberra, Wollongong, Newcastle, Toowoomba, Lismore and Tweed Heads throughout December.

The stage show features a live band led by Warhurst's brother Kit Warhurst from Rocket Science, as well as Stevie Hesketh from Jet and Gus Agars of The Vandas.

"Doing the Spicks and Speck-tacular is tomfoolery ahoy," Hills laughed.

"The Spicks and Speck-tacular tour we just become rock stars.

"The worst thing that happened on that tour was when we realised we could do the show with a hangover. It was all downhill after that."

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