ABC1 streaks ahead again on a Friday Night with New Tricks (1st – 1,061,000) and is the only non-News to crack one million. Better Homes and Gardens (5th – 893,000) again delivers strongly along with Home and Away (6th – 853,000) for Channel 7 while The Big Bang Theory (7:30pm 14th – 481,000; 8pm 12th – 544,000) and MOVIE: The Dark Knight (13th – 522,000) are Channel 9’s non-News best. The only entry for Channel 10 in the Top 20 is Ten News At Five (10th – 566,000).
Timeslot winners (nationally):
6:00pm: Seven News – Ch7
6:30pm: Today Tonight – Ch7
7:00pm: ABC News – ABC1
7:30pm: Better Homes and Gardens – Ch7
8:30pm: New Tricks – ABC1
9:30pm: MOVIE: The Dark Knight (2nd hour) – Ch9
Channel 7 won the night (22.1%), followed by Channel 9 (18.3%), ABC1 (15.6%) & Channel 10 (10%).