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[07/17/12 - 03:10 PM]
Sunday's Cable Ratings: HBO's "True Blood" Holds Off Scripted Premieres
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for sunday, july 15, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 39 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

True Blood - HBO
4.629 million viewers, #1; 3.421 million adults 18-49 (2.7 rating), #1

Longmire - A&E
4.452 million viewers, #2; 1.025 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #13

Shake It Up (8:30) - Disney
3.926 million viewers, #3; 0.702 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #16

Falling Skies - TNT
3.606 million viewers, #4; 1.564 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #5

Good Luck Charlie (7:30) - Disney
3.575 million viewers, #5; 0.699 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #17

Austin & Ally (8:00) - Disney
3.522 million viewers, #6; 0.690 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #18

Army Wives - Lifetime
3.488 million viewers, #7; 1.447 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #6

Leverage - TNT
3.387 million viewers, #8; 1.070 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #11

The Glades - A&E
3.379 million viewers, #9; 0.974 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #14

Ice Road Truckers - History
3.020 million viewers, #10; 1.132 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #7

Breaking Bad - AMC
2.931 million viewers, #11; 1.941 million adults 18-49 (1.5 rating), #2

Keeping Up With the Kardashians - E!
2.927 million viewers, #12; 1.923 million adults 18-49 (1.5 rating), #3

Real Housewives of New Jersey - Bravo
2.642 million viewers, #13; 1.573 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #4

Political Animals (10:00, 84 Minutes) - USA
2.624 million viewers, #14; 0.675 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #20

Next Food Network Star (9:00) - Food
2.605 million viewers, #15; 1.066 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #12

Drop Dead Diva - Lifetime
2.553 million viewers, #16; 1.108 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #9

Storage Hunters (10:00) - truTV
2.212 million viewers, #17; 1.077 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #10

The Newsroom - HBO
1.940 million viewers, #18; 1.127 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #8

Sunday Night Baseball - ESPN
1.792 million viewers, #19; 0.599 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #26

Sunday Best (9:00) - BET
1.428 million viewers, #20; 0.636 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #23

Hoarding: Buried Alive - TLC
1.411 million viewers, #21; 0.655 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #21

3 Days to Open With Bobby Flay - Food
1.389 million viewers, #22; 0.642 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #22

Sunday Best (8:00) - BET
1.323 million viewers, #23; 0.621 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #24

Combat Pawn - truTV
1.279 million viewers, #24; 0.687 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #19

Cupcake Wars - Food
1.268 million viewers, #25; 0.561 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #27

Call of the Wildman (10:00) - Animal Planet
1.198 million viewers, #26; 0.556 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #28

Mrs. Eastwood & Company (10:00) - E!
1.195 million viewers, #27; 0.724 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #15

The Great Escape - TNT
1.160 million viewers, #28; 0.620 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #25

Shark Wranglers - History
1.098 million viewers, #29; 0.530 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #30

Strange Sex (10:30) - TLC
1.002 million viewers, #30; 0.461 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #31

Strange Sex (10:00) - TLC
0.847 million viewers, #31; 0.403 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #33

Gator Boys - Animal Planet
0.811 million viewers, #32; 0.361 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #35

Weeds - Showtime
0.782 million viewers, #33; 0.545 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #29

Snapped - Oxygen
0.630 million viewers, #34; 0.324 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #36

Big Ang - VH1
0.608 million viewers, #35; 0.423 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #32

Mob Wives Chicago (8:00) - VH1
0.575 million viewers, #36; 0.399 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #34

Oprah's Next Chapter (10:00) - OWN
0.438 million viewers, #37; 0.181 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #38

Episodes - Showtime
0.417 million viewers, #38; 0.275 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #37

Oprah Builds a Network: Part 2 - OWN
0.275 million viewers, #39; 0.094 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #39

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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