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[04/20/07 - 10:48 PM]
Cable Ratings Round-Up (Week of April 9-15): VH1 'Charms' Series Premiere Record
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

LOS ANGELES (thefutoncritic.com) -- VH1's "Flavor of Love Girls: Charm School" opened to a network record 5.07 million viewers (#4; 2.3/6 in adults 18-49) on Sunday.

Said numbers built off its already powerful lead-in, the "I Love New York Reunion Special" (5.01 million, #T5; 2.3/5 in adults 18-49).

Both series however couldn't catch HBO's "The Sopranos" (7.4 million, #1; 3.7/9 in adults 18-49), cable's most-watched program last week.

Also making the cut into the top 15: USA's "WWE Raw" - 9:00 (5.0 million, #T5) and 10:00 (5.6 million, #3), Discovery Channel's "Planet Earth" - 8:00 (4.9 million, #7) and 9:00 (4.6 million, #8), USA's broadcast of "National Treasure" (4.36 million, #9; 1.7/6 in adults 18-49), HBO's "Entourage" (3.85 million, #13; 2.3/6 in adults 18-49), Lifetime's original movie "The Staircase Murders" (3.3 million, #T14) and TLC's "Little People, Big World" (3.3 million, #T14).

Outside the leaderboard, Showtime's "The Tudors" averaged just 350,000 viewers for its third installment.





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· CHARM SCHOOL (VH1)
· ENTOURAGE (HBO)
· I LOVE NEW YORK (VH1)
· SOPRANOS, THE (HBO)
· STAIRCASE MURDERS, THE (LIFETIME)
· TUDORS, THE (SHOWTIME)
· WWE RAW (NETFLIX)





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