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[07/07/11 - 03:40 PM]
Wednesday's Cable Ratings: "Royal Pains" Rises in Second Week
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for wednesday, july 6, 2011)

Here are the highlights of 26 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Royal Pains (5.018 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.6, #1)

Necessary Roughness (4.416 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.3, #2)

Franklin & Bash (2.580 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 0.9, #4)

Hot in Cleveland (2.245 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T6)

Happily Divorced (1.823 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T10)

Men of a Certain Age (1.786 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T13)

The Challenge: Rivals (1.658 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 1.0, #3)

Restaurant: Impossible (1.626 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.7, #5)

Toddlers & Tiaras (1.549 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T6)

The Lost Kennedy Home Movies (1.338 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T18)

South Park (Repeat) (1.240 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T6)

Melissa & Joey (1.080 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T13)

Flipping Out (1.078 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T6)

Hollywood Treasure (10:00) (1.060 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T10)

Haunted Collector (1.019 million viewers, #15; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T13)

Hollywood Treasure (10:30) (0.956 million viewers, #16; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T13)

I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant (9:30) (0.857 million viewers, #17; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T13)

Behind the Music (0.851 million viewers, #18; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T10)

State of Georgia (0.807 million viewers, #19; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T18)

I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant (9:00) (0.702 million viewers, #20; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T18)

Rocco's Dinner Party (0.679 million viewers, #21; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T18)

Jon Benjamin Has a Van (0.583 million viewers, #22; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T18)

I Shouldn't Be Alive (0.554 million viewers, #23; adults 18-49: 0.2, #23)

The World According to Paris (0.226 million viewers, #24; adults 18-49: 0.1, #T24)

Clean House (0.209 million viewers, #25; adults 18-49: 0.1, #T24)

Inside NASCAR (0.062 million viewers, #26; adults 18-49: 0.0, #26)

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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