The Big Music Quiz
7pm, Seven
If you had to choose between rubbing tinea cream into your foot or watching our former deputy prime minister Anthony Albanese daggy dad-dancing his way through this music quiz show, what would you do? It's a modern-day Sophie's choice. There are no winners, just an itchy foot and pity for Albo, whose expression suggests he's dying from kill-me-now embarrassment as he tries to sort his Kinks from his Easybeats. Albo is not alone, of course, but he's the only celebrity in tonight's line-up – which includes radio's Jackie O, singer Ella Hooper, weather boy James Tobin, Olympians Libby Trickett and Matthew Mitcham, and actors Rachael Beck and Toby Truslove – who isn't shamelessly mugging for the camera as they try to solve various music riddles. It's not Spicks and Specks by any stretch of the imagination and host Darren McMullen is no Adam Hills. However, it's rating its socks off, so more than one person must be drunk at home and watching it.
Louise Rugendyke
movie Daddy's Home (2015)
Premiere Movies (pay TV), 8.30pm
The comic rapport between Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg that was made obvious by their 2010 comedy The Other Guys is barely rewarmed in this family-friendly film about a committed stepfather, Brad Taggart (Ferrell), whose progress with the two children of his wife, Sara (Linda Cardellini), is threatened by the reappearance of their muscular, motorbike riding father, Dusty Mayron (Mark Wahlberg). With echoes of Meet the Parents, the two passive-aggressively and then just aggressively compete for the kids' loyalty. Moments of comic mayhem abound, often involving Brad hurting himself in pursuit of coolness, but screenwriter turned director Sean Anders is barely workmanlike in how he stages them, preferring to lob in another verbal rejoinder from the comic laden supporting cast. The film alludes to the pressures of parenting, but errs on emphasising the nobility of the role even though the unquenchable demands are better suited to the subversive.
Craig Mathieson
Mythbusters
8.30pm, SBS2
At the beginning of this episode dedicated to car destruction from the last ever season, Adam Savage crushes a car at a wrecking yard. He then discovers Jamie Hyneman's flattened beret in the wreckage and can barely suppress a smile. It's a small nod to the co-hosts' strained working relationship on Mythbusters, which has survived 14 years of explosions, paintball attacks, drills, thrills and spills. No longer will Jamie and Adam have to pretend to be chummy on-screen, they can walk off into the sunset safe in the knowledge they will never have to see each other again. Mythbusters is not my cup of tea (I fell asleep halfway through this episode, only to wake up and see, you guessed it, a car exploding), but it's a good example of maintaining a civil working relationship with a colleague you can't stand. Of course, we can't all fire paintball guns at the office close talker or loud eater, but we can smile serenely and dream of crushing them under a car. LR
pay The A Word
Sunday, BBC First, 8.30pm
The most exhausting, unreachable character here isn't autistic five-year-old Joe (Max Vento); it's his mum, Alison (Morven Christie). Joe's diagnosis has sent her sense of entitlement into overdrive and she's constantly trying to badger, bully and bend people to her will – all for Joe's benefit, of course. Tonight, when another of Joe's insouciant wanderings looks like getting blameless nanny Maya (Julia Krynke) deported to Eastern Europe, Alison decides to try to solve the problem in various highly inappropriate ways. The broader family drama continues to be quite involving, with grandpa Maurice (Christopher Eccleston) and his own grab-bag of eccentricities and insecurities providing plenty of low-key humour and pathos. Tonight's episode is also a reminder that if the morning-after pill had been around in Chekhov's time he would have written a rule about any box of the things seen in the first act falling out of a torn garbage bag in the third.
Brad Newsome
