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[02/22/12 - 05:32 PM]
Sunday's Cable Ratings: "Walking Dead" Overshadows the Competition
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for sunday, february 19, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 35 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

The Walking Dead - AMC
6.890 million viewers, #1; 4.661 million adults 18-49 (3.6 rating), #1

Austin & Ally - Disney
3.531 million viewers, #2; 0.619 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #21

Shake It Up - Disney
3.462 million viewers, #3; 0.558 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #24

Khloe & Lamar - E!
2.566 million viewers, #4; 1.813 million adults 18-49 (1.4 rating), #2

Bubble Guppies: Bubble Puppy's Fin-tastic Fairy Tale - Nickelodeon
2.557 million viewers, #5; 0.741 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #16

Ax Men - History
2.528 million viewers, #6; 1.309 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #5

Real Housewives of Atlanta (9:00) - Bravo
2.485 million viewers, #7; 1.689 million adults 18-49 (1.3 rating), #3

Worst Cooks in America - Food
2.231 million viewers, #8; 1.115 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #6

NBA Basketball: Denver/Oklahoma City - ESPN
1.892 million viewers, #9; 0.932 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #12

Ice Loves Coco - E!
1.876 million viewers, #10; 1.320 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #4

Cruise Ship Disaster: Inside the Concordia - Discovery
1.832 million viewers, #11; 0.859 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #14

My Strange Addiction (10:30) - TLC
1.522 million viewers, #12; 0.876 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #13

My Strange Addiction (10:00) - TLC
1.485 million viewers, #13; 0.760 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #15

Mob Wives - VH1
1.463 million viewers, #14; 0.972 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #8

Little People, Big World - TLC
1.462 million viewers, #15; 0.576 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #23

Comic Book Men - AMC
1.438 million viewers, #16; 0.960 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #11

I Ain't Scared of You: A Tribute to Bernie Mac - Comedy Central
1.430 million viewers, #17; 0.971 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #9

Iron Chef America - Food
1.419 million viewers, #18; 0.708 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #18

Shameless - Showtime
1.409 million viewers, #19; 0.967 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #10

Cupcake Wars - Food
1.379 million viewers, #20; 0.613 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #22

Finding Bigfoot - Animal Planet
1.315 million viewers, #21; 0.662 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #19

Eastbound & Down - HBO
1.268 million viewers, #22; 1.109 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #7

Full Metal Jousting - History
1.256 million viewers, #23; 0.737 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #17

Vegas Strip - truTV
1.240 million viewers, #24; 0.517 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #26

Hoarding: Buried Alive - TLC
1.050 million viewers, #25; 0.462 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #28

Gator Boys - Animal Planet
0.863 million viewers, #26; 0.334 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #31

House of Lies - Showtime
0.846 million viewers, #27; 0.525 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #25

Life's Too Short - HBO
0.810 million viewers, #28; 0.627 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #20

Bait Car (8:00) - truTV
0.800 million viewers, #29; 0.422 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #29

Hillbilly Handfishin' - Animal Planet
0.743 million viewers, #30; 0.281 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #32

Californication - Showtime
0.714 million viewers, #31; 0.489 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #27

Mob Wives: The Sit Down - VH1
0.594 million viewers, #32; 0.394 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #30

Snapped - Oxygen
0.593 million viewers, #33; 0.267 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #33

Oprah's Next Chapter - OWN
0.514 million viewers, #34; 0.188 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #35

Luck - HBO
0.445 million viewers, #35; 0.197 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #34

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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