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UK TV has a long history of music quiz shows from Face the music, Name that tune, Pop Quiz and Buzzcock's which each has been entertaining for anyone who likes to test their music knowledge and this is the latest attempt at a prime time show. The basic format is relatively well structured working against the clock and the other teams to identify popular music clips to win a cash prise - That's the good part, unfortunately this is 2019 and we have to adhere to Right-on producers idea of what must be included in a show, so we have lots of whooping and screaming accompanied by crass cliche's : Give it up for (who) Make some noise ?? everybody is "Amazzzing" It's as though the X Factor's audience has been pushed into a studio when there's been a technical delay and they are confused by what's in the studio so they just carry on screaming. What can you say about the presenters, well I use that term loosely - two flavours of the month attempting to wing their way through their Auto cue challenge punctuating their interaction with the contestants with witless bland comments and the constant repetition of O-Kayee ! I counted this repeated over 70 times in one show. It's these 2 who destroy the show with their amateur attempt at fronting a programme, they would be more suited to a Saturday morning slot on QVC I think the producers should recruit people who have some actual ability and watch a few episodes of Buzzcocks and have a re-think.

Rochelle and Marvin do a great job hosting, really laid back vibe to make the contestants relax. The presenters had to be musicians because of the subject matter and these guys were a great choice.

Great to play along at home, loads and loads of fun. Love it.

Great when the game is actually being played. Even though I am a fan of Rochelle's former group, we really could do without The Saturdays and JLS being mentioned without fail in every single episode. Shoehorning the 2 groups into nearly every conversation and sometimes into the actual game is beyond cringe. That aside, it's great to see music from loads of different decades being given an airing instead of the usual modern "anything pre-2000 is never mentioned" attitude. Even more "old music" would be very welcome, less JLS/The Saturdays patter would be even more welcome.

The quiz concept is good but please how did these two get the job? It's clear that all they're doing is reading an autocue and the vacuous attempts at being funny are truly cringing. All that arm flailing from Rochelle and her over the top manner is awful. This is a pop music show and they didn't even seem to know that one of their contestants was one of the biggest stars in the 80s. All they did know about Paul Young was that he sang on the Band Aid single. How insulting. And why are the BBC wasting our money yet again by paying two people to present what is a very basic show? This wouldn't be a diversity box ticking exercise would it?

That was 45 minutes of my life I will never get back. I cannot believe this was the warm up for the Strictly Come Dancing 2019 final lol. I love music but this actually made me angry. It is poorly put together, the contestants were hopeless and the hosts are so cringeworthy. The final two were horrendously awful and did not know any songs. Music makes such a great basis for a show and that is the only reason this got two stars.