Ten’s The Cube launches to 567,000 metro viewers

Ten’s new prime-time game show format, The Cube, premiered last night to 567,000 metro viewers, behind Married at First Sight’s third episode, which drew 891,000 metro viewers to Nine, and the ABC’s Hard Quiz, which had a capital city audience of 584,000 at 8pm.

However, the Andy Lee-fronted format did beat Seven in the key time slot, with the latter’s offering of Ambulance: Code Red attracting an average metro audience of just 255,000 from 7:30-8:30pm.

Earlier this week, Lee told Mumbrella of his hopes for the first episode’s performance: “Well, obviously we expect three million Australians will have something else on. So we can’t be greedy and go for the full 25 million.