Spelling Bee loses 30 per cent of audience a week after debut while The Hotplate holds firm
Ten’s The Great Australian Spelling Bee has shed almost 30 per cent of its audience a week after it made its debut. 
Last night’s Oztam metropolitan TV audience numbers show the program, featuring children competing in a spelling contest, failed to make the top 15 programs with an audience of 655,000 for its third outing, well down on the 921,000 it drew last week.
In contrast Nine’s reality cooking show The Hotplate was up on last week drawing 952,000 viewers, up from 944,000 last Monday. Nine also benefitted from the return of drama House Husbands which had 855,000 viewers from 8.50pm.
Season four of House Husbands was down on its 2014 return when it drew 891,000.
boring show why would anyone watch it?
No doubt it was cheap to make.
Kids show in an adult time slot. Bad programming decision. And kids are boring. Fact.
ABC drops to zip for 4Corners. Looks like no one cares how cricket is governed or was it just post-Ashes apathy?
What can one say? Lames show and its during Prime time TV!! If kids wanna watch it – put it in their time slot.
“Well there’s your problem” – its the time slot. I know heaps of mums who want to watch it with there under 10’s but they cant stay up that late.