Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont-Spelling Bee

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Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee returns for a triumphant third season, with Sam Campbell as new Assistant

Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee returns for a joyfully chaotic third season on Wednesday 29 April 2026 at 8:35pm on ABC TV and ABC iview.

Following two breakout seasons and host Guy Montgomery taking home the Logie for Most Popular New Talent, Australia’s favourite spelling competition is back for round three.

The 10-episode season delivers new games and a brand new assistant. Comedian and gloriously self-effacing oddball Sam Campbell steps into the role of TV’s most unserious sidekick, bringing a disconcerting presence that baffles contestants and audiences even more than the wordplay itself.

Each Wednesday, Montgomery and Campbell will test four of the nation’s sharpest comedians as they battle it out across five high stakes spelling rounds.

Vying for the most prestigious prize on television - a one-way ticket to defend their title on the next episode - this season’s all-star lineup includes Hamish Blake, Melanie Bracewell, Myf Warhurst, Charlie Pickering, Andrew Denton, Urzila Carlson, Anne Edmonds, Matt Okine, and Nazeem Hussain.

New challenges this season include “Noah Thing or Two”, where comedians must spell pairs of animals boarding Noah’s ark (some may exist only in Campbell’s imagination); “Mixologist”, which sees an extremely uncoordinated Campbell attempt bartending while contestants guess and spell his mystery cocktail; and “Do Feed The Birds”, where competitors attempt spelling whilst dressed as ducks and pigeons.

Transforming everyone’s least favourite high school activity into a fast-paced, offbeat and extremely wholesome panel show, Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee continues to prove there’s a whole lot of fun to be had with the alphabet.

Production Credit: Commissioned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. A Kevin & Co and ABC co-production. Producers: Bronwynn Bakker, Jess Lockie. Executive Producers: Cam Bakker, Guy Montgomery, Greg Sitch. ABC Executive Producer: Mark Sutton. ABC Head of Entertainment Rachel Millar.

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Guy has thanked Aaron for being his sidekick in the past two seasons.

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Wonder if it will be all eps on iview. Thinking maybe not with filming only occurring in the week leading up to that - the 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 27th and 28th April. The 11th ep (which guessing will be the Christmas special) is being filmed the afternoon of the 29th.

Not sure yet about the change to Sam. :-/ I like Aaron and he was great in this, but what I’ve seen of Sam he’s completely bonkers - potentially too much so… ?

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Audience tickets are now available at That’s the Ticket website. It starts filming on April 21 as mentioned above.

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Got tickets for one episode, with a couple of others pending. Gruen likely to be filming their return ep on the afternoon/evening of the 28th too.

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EPISODE 1 OF 10

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WEDNESDAY 29 APRIL 8.40PM

Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee returns for a triumphant third season, with Sam Campbell as the new Assistant.

The 10-episode season delivers brand new games and even more ridiculousness. Montgomery and Campbell test four of the nation’s sharpest comedians as they battle it out across five high stakes spelling rounds.

Season three kicks off with Sam Campbell as a clownish co-host, launching a chaotic “Third Birthday Party” as Gillian Cosgriff defends her title against Andrew Denton, Michelle Brasier and Phil Wang.

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EPISODE 2

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WEDNESDAY 6 MAY 8.40PM

The carryover champ defends their crown against Frank Woodley, Shabana Azeez and Sarah Keyworth, as Sam Campbell ramps up the chaos with “Boarder Patrol”, where he inspects their luggage mid-game.

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EPISODE 3

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WEDNESDAY 13 MAY 8.40PM

Episode 3 sees Frank Woodley take on Melanie Bracewell, Andy Saunders, and Anne Edmonds, while trying to figure out what’s up and what’s down in a confusing episode with surprise furry guests.

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One of those names is wrong

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Which one?

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:zipper_mouth_face:

All will be revealed on the 13th.. or if they update the press release/promo material.

edit- originally wasn’t sure if the change was made for some sort of gender balance reasons after the previous eps winner became known but that doesn’t necessarily square up with the next ep’s line-up. There may have been another logistical reason. The replacement was heard to say they’d only flown in to Sydney that morning so who knows. Either way I hope the ‘missing’ person shows up at some point over the series. Oh and there’s new opening titles for this series too.

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EPISODE 4

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WEDNESDAY 20 MAY 8.40PM

Guy and Sam unleash a fresh panel onto the stage, putting Akmal, Helen Bauer, Scout Boxall and Melanie Bracewell through their paces. Expect bird watching and audience names spelled on the spot.

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I thought this show might become a bit stale in the third season but it was still great and had a lot of laugh out loud moments.

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The first episode of the new season was amazing, just you wait until the next two episodes

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Honestly I thought it was a mixed first episode of the season. I had some laugh out loud moments, but Sam Campbell I thought was quite weak.

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I just noticed the synopsis above has been edited now.. Tim was the name that was wrong and Anne Edmonds was on instead. She came along with an easter egg for the fans..

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Sam dressing up as an It-like clown, and Gillian’s reaction, was hilarious :joy:

Is this the first time they’ve had quotes as episode titles - Taskmaster style?

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EPISODE 5

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WEDNESDAY 27 MAY 8.35PM

The 10-episode season delivers brand new games and even more ridiculousness. Montgomery and Campbell test four of the nation’s sharpest comedians as they battle it out across five high stakes spelling rounds.

Episode 5 features David O’Doherty, Rose Matafeo, and Tim McDonald.

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EPISODE 6

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WEDNESDAY 3 JUNE 8.40PM

In this episode, Charlie Pickering, Demi Adejuyigbe, and Ben Kochan try to make sense of the chaos as the Clockman takes over, warping reality and racing the clock.

It’s dance or spell under pressure, because when time runs out, anything can happen.