Great Australian Spelling Bee lifts but comes fourth in its slot as House Husbands dips
Ten’s new show The Great Australian Spelling Bee has lifted its audience marginally on last week with 662,000 metro viewers last night, up from 655,000 last week.
Contestants in the Great Australian Spelling Bee
However, the result still saw the show come in at fourth in its 7.30pm prime-time timeslot.
The children’s spelling contest could not match for Nine’s reality cooking show The Hotplate which drew 902,000 viewers on a night when no program, outside of news and current affairs drew over the million mark.
The 6.30pm slot of the Nine News bulletin drew the highest audience of Monday night with Oztam overnight metro ratings reporting 1.204m viewers compared with 1.073m for Seven in the slot.
In the first half hour of the 6pm news it was a closer match up with 1.182m for Nine News and 1.078m for Seven.
Over on the ABC the story of Geraldine Cox’s work in orphanages in Cambodia drew 886,000 viewers at 8pm while Seven’s Highway Patrol drew 837,000 at 7.30pm and then 708,000 for Motorway Patrol.
In the 8.30pm slot, the second episode of the new series of House Husbands on Nine drew 813,000, down on the 855,000 viewers it had last week.
Nine won the night in terms of overall audience main channel share with 21.3 per cent, Seven had 17.4 per cent while the ABC had 16.5 per cent and Ten had 12.5 per cent.
Top 15 shows
1 NINE NEWS 6:30 Network 9 1,204,000
2 NINE NEWS Network 9 1,182,000
3 A CURRENT AFFAIR Network 9 1,129,000
4 SEVEN NEWS Network 7 1,078,000
5 SEVEN NEWS / TODAY TONIGHT Network 7 1,073,000
6 ABC NEWS Network ABC 912,000
7 THE HOTPLATE Network 9 902,000
8 AUSTRALIAN STORY Network ABC 886,000
9 HIGHWAY PATROL Network 7 837,000
10 HOUSE HUSBANDS Network 9 813,000
11 7.30 Network ABC 811,000
12 HOME AND AWAY Network 7 765,000
13 MOTORWAY PATROL Network 7 708,000
14 MEDIA WATCH Network ABC 688,000
15 FOUR CORNERS Network ABC 678,000
Audience Share
Network 9 21.3%
Network 7 17.4%
Network ABC 16.5%
Network TEN 12.6%
Network 7TWO 6.0%
Network SBS ONE 4.8%
Network 7mate 3.9%
Network GO! 3.8%
Network ABC2 3.7%
Network ONE 2.7%
Network Gem 2.5%
Network ELEVEN 2.3%
Network ABC News 24 1.1%
Network SBS 2 0.9%
Network ABC3 0.4%
Network NITV 0.1%
Total Audience Share
Network 9 TTL 27.6%
Network 7 TTL 27.3%
Network ABC TTL 21.7%
Network TEN TTL 17.6%
Network SBS TTL 5.8%
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