Return of Great Australian Spelling Bee draws less than 500,000
The return of Ten’s The Great Australian Spelling Bee at 6:30pm managed to draw a metro audience of just 456,000, down on last year’s season launch audience of 921,000.
The first season of the children’s spelling competition, hosted by Grant Denyer, remained relatively steady, with a finale audience of 901,000.
Ten managed to break the 1m audience barrier at 7:30pm with Masterchef pulling in 1.122m metro viewers as the show heads into finals week.
