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Ratings: Nine Up 900,000

As Dancing with the Stars' Wednesday outing set another season high (of 20.65 million total viewers)....— CBS' Jericho, whose season was just cleaved into two repeat-free halves, held steady (with 9.79 million viewers).— America's Next Top Model (5.4 mil) had one of its best outings of the season.— Criminal Minds (17.538 million) bested Lost (17.102 mil, up a mil from the week prior) for a second straight time. (And for the last time, until February 7, 2007.)— The O.C., with a special airing, was welcomed back to Wednesday by 3.53 million, only a hair more than saw last Thursday's disappointingly sampled season opener, and was outperformed by One Tree Hill in key female demos.— The Nine (7.57 mil) surged 900,000 viewers, yet still fell shy of reclaiming the 10 o'clock hour's No. 2 slot, from Dateline.

As Dancing with the Stars' Wednesday outing set another season high (of 20.65 million total viewers)....

- CBS' Jericho, whose season was just cleaved into two repeat-free halves, held steady (with 9.79 million viewers).
- America's Next Top Model (5.4 mil) had one of its best outings of the season.
- Criminal Minds (17.538 million) bested Lost (17.102 mil, up a mil from the week prior) for a second straight time. (And for the last time, until February 7, 2007.)
- The O.C., with a special airing, was welcomed back to Wednesday by 3.53 million, only a hair more than saw last Thursday's disappointingly sampled season opener, and was outperformed by One Tree Hill in key female demos.
- The Nine (7.57 mil) surged 900,000 viewers, yet still fell shy of reclaiming the 10 o'clock hour's No. 2 slot, from Dateline.

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