or


[06/01/12 - 05:03 PM]
Thursday's Cable Ratings: "Swamp People," NBA Playoffs Top the Charts
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for thursday, may 31, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 21 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

NBA Playoffs: San Antonio/Oklahoma City - TNT
7.134 million viewers, #1; 3.838 million adults 18-49 (3.0 rating), #1

Swamp People - History
4.849 million viewers, #2; 2.240 million adults 18-49 (1.8 rating), #2

Mountain Men - History
3.901 million viewers, #3; 1.584 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #3

Men at Work (10:00) - TBS
2.045 million viewers, #4; 1.272 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #4

Don't Be Tardy for the Wedding (9:30) - Bravo
2.026 million viewers, #5; 1.136 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #5

Auction Kings (9:30) - Discovery
1.589 million viewers, #6; 0.695 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #6

Auction Kings (9:00) - Discovery
1.509 million viewers, #7; 0.670 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #8

Impact Wrestling (8:00) - Spike TV
1.296 million viewers, #8; 0.569 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #9

Sweet Genius - Food
1.248 million viewers, #9; 0.546 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #11

Final Offer - Discovery
1.097 million viewers, #10; 0.543 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #12

National Spelling Bee - ESPN
1.061 million viewers, #11; 0.510 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #14

The Pauly D Project - MTV
1.010 million viewers, #12; 0.693 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #7

Punk'd - MTV
0.975 million viewers, #13; 0.554 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #10

truTV Presents: World's Dumbest (9:00) - truTV
0.872 million viewers, #14; 0.418 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #15

Kathy - Bravo
0.797 million viewers, #15; 0.513 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #13

Clipaholics - truTV
0.704 million viewers, #16; 0.395 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #16

On the Fly (9:00) - TLC
0.670 million viewers, #17; 0.305 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #17

On the Fly (9:30) - TLC
0.597 million viewers, #18; 0.268 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #19

Tattoo School (10:00) - TLC
0.452 million viewers, #19; 0.276 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #18

Tattoo School (10:30) - TLC
0.447 million viewers, #20; 0.263 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #20

7 Days of Sex - Lifetime
0.403 million viewers, #21; 0.254 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #21

Source: Nielsen Media Research





  [june 2012]  
S
M
T
W
T
F
S
     


· SHOWATCH
(series past and present)
· DEVWATCH
(series in development)
· MOVIEWATCH
(tv movies and mini-series)





most recent ratings | view all posts
[02/12/25 - 10:43 AM]
ESPN NBA Viewership Update: Luka Doncic's Lakers Debut Delivers 2.01 Million Viewers
The telecast peaked at 2.55 million viewers and won the day among people and males 18-34, 18-49 and 25-54.

[02/12/25 - 10:23 AM]
Puppy Bowl XXI Reaches 12.8 Million Viewers and Was #1 Non-Sports Cable Telecast on Sunday, February 9
Sunday's programming event became the highest-rated Puppy Bowl ever on Discovery, TBS and truTV and Animal Planet's highest-rated in four years.

[02/12/25 - 09:35 AM]
CBS "FBI" Line Up Wins Tuesday Night with #1 Show "FBI"
"FBI" was the #1 show of the night, beating the #2 show of the night by nearly +1 million viewers.

[02/11/25 - 01:15 PM]
FOX "Super Week" Kicks Off, Breaking Records with "The Floor" as Season's #1 Entertainment Series Telecast and New Survival Competition "Extracted" Off to a Wild Start
For six consecutive seasons, FOX has delivered the highest-rated unscripted entertainment series telecast.

[02/11/25 - 12:00 PM]
Netflix Top 10 Week of Feb. 3: "Kinda Pregnant" Delivers, "The Night Agent" Holds Strong in Top 10
Fans also basked in the Southern charm of Season 4 of "Sweet Magnolias," which debuted at No. 4 in English TV (4 million views), and flocked to the Australian limited series "Apple Cider Vinegar" (No. 5 in English TV, 3.8 million views).

[02/11/25 - 11:38 AM]
FOX Sports' Presentation of Super Bowl LIX Delivers Most-Watched Super Bowl of All-Time with 127.7 Million Viewers Across All Platforms
Philadelphia's big win in the bayou peaked at 137.7 million viewers in the second quarter (8:00 PM - 8:15 PM ET), per Nielsen Media Research.

[02/11/25 - 11:01 AM]
"The Day of the Jackal" Becomes Peacock's Most-Watched New Original Drama Series
Viewership of the series in its first 75 days has surpassed that of any other original drama series in the same timeframe.

[02/07/25 - 01:13 PM]
ABC Claims Top 5 Shows Among Adults 18-49 in Cross-Platform Broadcast Series Rankings
Driven by stellar streaming viewership on Hulu and Disney+, three ABC titles more than triple their seven-day linear averages, including "High Potential" (+297%), "Abbott Elementary" (+270%) and "Shifting Gears" (+242%).

[02/07/25 - 10:08 AM]
CBS Wins Thursday Night with Top 4 Programs of the Night, Up from Its Thursday Season Average
"Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage" (8:00-8:30 PM) was the #1 program of the night delivering 6.54 million viewers.

[02/07/25 - 09:10 AM]
CBS "Hollywood Squares" Is the Season's #1 New Unscripted Series Reaching Nearly 24 Million Unique Viewers
The show is televisions #1 new unscripted series this season averaging 5.40 million viewers in primetime alone.

[02/05/25 - 09:18 AM]
CBS "FBI" Line Up Wins Tuesday Night
"FBI" was the #1 show of the night with 5.83 million viewers, winning its hour by +1.33 million viewers.

[02/04/25 - 12:00 PM]
Netflix Top 10 Week of Jan. 27: "Back in Action" Pulls No Punches, "The Night Agent" Hits Its Mark in Top 10
Plus: the Noah Centineo-starring "The Recruit" remained a hit, with Season 2 arriving at No. 2 (5.9 million views) and Season 1 sitting at No. 8 (3.1 million views).

[02/04/25 - 08:48 AM]
"The Flip Off" Delivers HGTV's Highest-Rated Freshman Series Premiere Since September 2022
The series attracting 4.0 million total viewers across linear and streaming when it premiered on Wednesday, January 29, at 8 p.m. ET/PT.

[02/04/25 - 08:33 AM]
"The 67th Annual Grammy Awards" on CBS Nets 15.4 Million Viewers and Raises Nearly $9 Million
Over the course or the entire weekend, the Recording Academy and MusiCares raised over $24 million for charitable activities.

[02/03/25 - 09:33 AM]
ESPN's Excellent Start to 2025: January Marks Highest Monthly Viewership in a Decade
Combining all of ESPN's programming with sports programming on ABC, more minutes were watched by fans than any month since January of 2017 (96 months).