The Wizards Of Waverly Place and star Selena Gomez couldn’t utterly constraint a sorcery of a strike franchise’s heyday. Last night’s Disney Channel strange film The Wizards Return: Alex vs. Alex, delivered 5.9 million sum viewers. That was reduction than half a assembly of a 2009 TV film Wizards of Waverly Place The Movie (13.5 million), that ranks as a #2 wire TV film ever (behind High School Musical 2). Still, Alex vs. Alex did improved than new Disney Channel films like Girl Vs. Monster (4.9 million) and Let It Shine (5.7 million). It delivered 2.9 million Kids 2-11, 2.3 million Kids 6-11 and 2.2 million Tweens 9-14, ranking as a #1 wire TV telecast of 2013 to date in Tweens 9-14, a #2 wire TV telecast in Kids 2-11 and Kids 6-11, and a #1 kids’ wire TV telecast in Total Viewers. The hourlong special buoyed an all-new part of Gravity Falls to a array high in Total Viewers (4.5 million). It posted the #2 telecast ever in Tweens 9-14 (1.7 million) and #3 telecast in Kids 2-11 (2.5 million).

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