Big Music Quiz bows out with 562,000, Mel B fails to lift X-Factor
The first season of Channel 7’s name-that-tune The Big Music Quiz wound up last night with 562,000 overnight metro viewers. It was 17th show of the night.
Last night’s episode saw actress Rebel Wilson win the gold record, quipping “Is there a cash prize that goes with this?”
Also featured on the episode were Home & Away actress Georgie Parker, comedian Joel Creasey, actress Miranda Tapsell, and musicians Clare Bowditch and Cyrus Villanueva
Wilson revealed she ran regularly into Justin Bieber in Los Angeles (“quite a lot of weirdly…he’s the nicest guy and so attractive up close”).
In other anecdotes, Parker revealed she once played a princess in a Wiggles music video. Creasey recalled the time he entered a karaoke competition in Canada. Next morning, waking up with a hangover, he was informed by his manager it was not a karaoke comp but he’d run onstage and grabbed the mic from an entertainer.
The Big Music Quiz has showcased musicians during its Unlikely Covers segments. Last night was 11-year-old guitarist Jeremy Yong who stunned the panel and the audience with renditions of Miley Cyrus’ Wrecking Ball and Metallica’s Enter Sandman.
Seven has not announced when the show will return. Meantime, the original French format continues to pick up viewers around the world. Producers Endemol Shine Group recently sold it to Italy and the Netherlands, after a sell-in to Germany.
On Tuesday night Seven’s X Factor Australia announced – to no one’s surprise as TMN announced it weeks ago – that Mel B (Brown) was the Underdog judge. She chooses to mentor three contestants that the other judges – Guy Sebastian, Adam Lambert and Iggy Aazalea – rejected.
“You lot are going to be left with egg on your face,” she screeched to the judges via video, while Sebastian sighed, “She’s really competitive, they don’t call her Scary Spice for nothing.”
The Mel B announcement was watched by 838,000 metro viewers, down from 895,000 from the previous week. But it and The Block were the two most-watched shows across the key advertising demographics (16-39, 18-49 and 25-54).
In 2013, Seven and Brown were locked in a court battle, with Seven trying to stop her from leaving to go to Nine Network’s Australia’s Got Talent. Seven stopped her from working for any other Australian network during the period of its contract with her.