Ch’s Wednesday night line-up gets a boost from their now standard police reality set: The Force (1st – 1,166,000) & Highway Patrol (1,125,000) leading the night. Magic rules the roost following with Dynamo: Magician Impossible (9th – 768,000) beating out A Moody Christmas (15th – 616,000) & the final The Hamster Wheel (16th – 606,000) for the year. Ch10 struggles (but still manages third overall), with its highest rating program being a repeat of Modern Family (16th – 606,000).
Timeslot winners (nationally):
6:00pm: Seven News – Ch7
6:30pm: Today Tonight – Ch7
7:00pm: ABC News – ABC1
7:30pm: Highway Patrol/The Force – Ch7
8:30pm: Dyanamo: Magician Impossible – Ch7
9:30pm: The Good Wife (ep2) – Ch10
Channel 7 won the night (22.9%), followed by Channel 9 (17.8%), Channel 10 (13.7%) & ABC1 (13.6%).