As the bushfire emergency picks up, Seven News (1st – 1,209,000) extends to include Today Tonight (3rd – 1,075,000) and offers an hour long update as it extends across the east coast. After that there’s not a lot that’s new (or interesting) to garner people’s attention, though Ch7’s evening of Motorway Patrol (5th – 904,000), Serious Crash Unit (8th – 828,000) and Revenge – Special (14th – 634,000) help it to a big win.

Timeslot winners (nationally):
6:00pm: Seven News – Ch7
6:30pm: Today Tonight – Ch7
7:00pm: ABC News – ABC1
7:30pm: Motorway Patrol/Serious Crash Unit – Ch7
8:30pm: Revenge – Special – Ch7
9:30pm: ? – Ch

Channel 7 won the night (22%), followed by Channel 9 (18.1%), ABC1 (15.6%) & Channel 10 (8.4%).