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[07/24/12 - 02:50 PM]
Sunday's Cable Ratings: "True Blood" Tops Demos, "Longmire" Leads Viewers
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for sunday, july 22, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 33 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Longmire - A&E
4.541 million viewers, #1; 1.104 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #9

True Blood - HBO
4.463 million viewers, #2; 3.272 million adults 18-49 (2.6 rating), #1

Falling Skies - TNT
3.449 million viewers, #3; 1.509 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #3

The Glades - A&E
3.184 million viewers, #4; 1.021 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #10

Next Food Network Star (9:00) - Food
2.919 million viewers, #5; 1.389 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #6

Army Wives - Lifetime
2.916 million viewers, #6; 1.192 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #7

Leverage - TNT
2.627 million viewers, #7; 0.899 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #14

Keeping Up With the Kardashians - E!
2.535 million viewers, #8; 1.746 million adults 18-49 (1.4 rating), #2

Ice Road Truckers - History
2.347 million viewers, #9; 0.827 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #17

Real Housewives of New Jersey - Bravo
2.345 million viewers, #10; 1.483 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #5

Breaking Bad - AMC
2.294 million viewers, #11; 1.491 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #4

Political Animals (10:00) - USA
2.281 million viewers, #12; 0.597 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #22

Drop Dead Diva - Lifetime
2.126 million viewers, #13; 0.828 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #16

Sunday Best - BET
2.100 million viewers, #14; 0.941 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #11

Chopped (8:00) - Food
2.023 million viewers, #15; 0.919 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #13

The Newsroom - HBO
1.954 million viewers, #16; 1.119 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #8

Chopped: Grill Masters (10:00) - Food
1.926 million viewers, #17; 0.934 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #12

Storage Hunters (10:00) - truTV
1.789 million viewers, #18; 0.830 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #15

Sunday Night Baseball - ESPN
1.752 million viewers, #19; 0.645 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #20

Hoarding: Buried Alive - TLC
1.588 million viewers, #20; 0.720 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #19

Strange Sex (10:00) - TLC
1.469 million viewers, #21; 0.747 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #18

Call of the Wildman (10:00) - Animal Planet
1.225 million viewers, #22; 0.561 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #24

Combat Pawn - truTV
1.134 million viewers, #23; 0.578 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #23

Mrs. Eastwood & Company (10:00) - E!
1.133 million viewers, #24; 0.642 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #21

The Great Escape - TNT
1.096 million viewers, #25; 0.554 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #25

Strange Sex (10:30) - TLC
1.028 million viewers, #26; 0.539 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #26

Gator Boys - Animal Planet
0.994 million viewers, #27; 0.465 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #27

Big Ang - VH1
0.605 million viewers, #28; 0.335 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #29

Weeds - Showtime
0.573 million viewers, #29; 0.396 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #28

Mob Wives Chicago (8:00) - VH1
0.461 million viewers, #30; 0.270 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #30

Episodes - Showtime
0.381 million viewers, #31; 0.218 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #31

Oprah's Next Chapter (8:00, 120 Minutes) - OWN
0.301 million viewers, #32; 0.118 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #32

Culture Shock - OWN
0.182 million viewers, #33; 0.086 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #33

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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