Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee (Australian TV series)

Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee
GenreComedy
Panel show
Game show
Created byGuy Montgomery
Presented byGuy Montgomery
StarringAaron Chen
ComposerMahuia Bridgman-Cooper
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of series1
No. of episodes8
Production
Executive producers
  • Cam Bakker
  • Bronwynn Bakker
  • Greg Sitch
  • Guy Montgomery
  • Mark Sutton
Producers
  • Cam Bakker
  • Bronwynn Bakker
Camera setupMulti-camera
Running time48 minutes
Production companies
Original release
NetworkABC
Release14 August 2024 (2024-08-14) –
present
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Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont-Spelling Bee is an Australian television comedy panel show on the ABC, created and presented by Guy Montgomery and co-hosted by Aaron Chen, based on the New Zealand TV show of the same name. The eight-episode first series premiered on 14 August 2024; every episode was made available on ABC iview that day.[1]

Guy Mont-Spelling Bee is loosely based on a spelling bee: each episode, four comedians participate in a series of rounds, where the goal is almost always to spell words or names in rounds that are "designed to befuddle, bamboozle, and bedazzle".[1] The winner of each episode competes again the following episode and the loser of each episode must wear a dunce cap in the Dunce's Corner.[1][2]

The cast includes Wil Anderson, Tony Armstrong, Concetta Caristo, Urzila Carlson (who also appeared in the original New Zealand version), Tom Gleeson, Peter Helliar, Geraldine Hickey, Nazeem Hussain, Demi Lardner, Zoë Coombs Marr, Luke McGregor, Tim Minchin, Rhys Nicholson and Steph Tisdell.[1][3]

  1. ^ a b c d "Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee premieres this August on ABC". ABC. 17 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
  2. ^ "ABC: Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee premieres this August". ScreenHub. 18 July 2024.
  3. ^ "'Guy Montgomery's Guy Mont Spelling Bee' (First Look)". IF. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.