The premiere of “Hannity” last night won its 9pmET slot in Total Viewers and the A25-54 demo, beating MSNBC and CNN combined in Total Viewers.

The program was up 51% in Total Viewers and 78% in the demo compared to “Hannity & Colmes” in January ’09.

Tonight’s show features the 2nd part of Sean Hannity‘s interview with President Bush, and a Great American Panel of Bob Beckel, FBN’s Rebecca Diamond and Karen Hanretty. Tomorrow’s show features the first part of Hannity’s interview with Don Imus (pictures on his show’s new blog).

Coming tomorrow: TVNewser talks to FNC’s SVP of programming Bill Shine about the new show and overall changes to the FNC line-up.

Pre-debut “Hannity” articles:

• The Hollywood Reporter

• Newsday