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[08/21/12 - 12:33 PM]
Sunday's Cable Ratings: HBO's "True Blood" Goes Untouched Once Again
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

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

Here are the highlights of 38 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

True Blood - HBO
4.926 million viewers, #1; 3.611 million adults 18-49 (2.8 rating), #1

Falling Skies - TNT
3.842 million viewers, #2; 1.760 million adults 18-49 (1.4 rating), #3

Army Wives - Lifetime
3.565 million viewers, #3; 1.474 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #6

Austin & Ally (8:00) - Disney
3.291 million viewers, #4; 0.638 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #21

Real Housewives of New Jersey - Bravo
2.980 million viewers, #5; 1.792 million adults 18-49 (1.4 rating), #2

Breaking Bad - AMC
2.809 million viewers, #6; 1.605 million adults 18-49 (1.3 rating), #5

Keeping Up With the Kardashians - E!
2.747 million viewers, #7; 1.723 million adults 18-49 (1.3 rating), #4

Drop Dead Diva - Lifetime
2.542 million viewers, #8; 1.043 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #9

Oprah's Next Chapter (9:00) - OWN
2.454 million viewers, #9; 1.393 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #7

Leverage - TNT
2.389 million viewers, #10; 0.850 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #14

Ice Road Truckers (10:00) - History
2.352 million viewers, #11; 0.991 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #10

Political Animals (10:00) - USA
2.339 million viewers, #12; 0.659 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #20

Hell on Wheels - AMC
2.313 million viewers, #13; 0.743 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #19

Sunday Best (8:00) - BET
2.312 million viewers, #14; 0.977 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #11

Sunday Night Baseball - ESPN
2.179 million viewers, #15; 0.834 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #15

Chopped: Grill Masters (9:00) - Food
2.034 million viewers, #16; 0.964 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #12

The Newsroom - HBO
1.964 million viewers, #17; 1.204 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #8

Married to Jonas - E!
1.737 million viewers, #18; 0.891 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #13

Storage Hunters (10:00) - truTV
1.613 million viewers, #19; 0.762 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #17

You Gotta See This! (7:00) - Nickelodeon
1.594 million viewers, #20; 0.385 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #34

The Great Food Truck Race - Food
1.573 million viewers, #21; 0.818 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #16

Cupcake Wars - Food
1.361 million viewers, #22; 0.604 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #22

Finding Amelia Earhart: Mystery Solved? - Discovery
1.206 million viewers, #23; 0.410 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #33

Bar Rescue (9:00) - Spike TV
1.193 million viewers, #24; 0.749 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #18

Call of the Wildman (10:00) - Animal Planet
1.169 million viewers, #25; 0.525 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #26

Survivorman - Discovery
1.154 million viewers, #26; 0.559 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #24

The Great Escape - TNT
1.067 million viewers, #27; 0.582 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #23

Hoarding: Buried Alive - TLC
1.063 million viewers, #28; 0.450 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #31

One Car Too Far - Discovery
1.035 million viewers, #29; 0.508 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #29

Combat Pawn - truTV
1.014 million viewers, #30; 0.548 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #25

Off the Hook: Extreme Catches (8:00) - Animal Planet
0.844 million viewers, #31; 0.450 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #30

Weeds - Showtime
0.779 million viewers, #32; 0.520 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #27

Flip Men (10:00) - Spike TV
0.779 million viewers, #33; 0.520 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #28

Lovetown, USA - OWN
0.758 million viewers, #34; 0.428 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #32

High School Moms - TLC
0.647 million viewers, #35; 0.357 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #36

Big Ang - VH1
0.606 million viewers, #36; 0.376 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #35

Mob Wives Chicago (8:00) - VH1
0.526 million viewers, #37; 0.342 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #37

Episodes - Showtime
0.412 million viewers, #38; 0.234 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #38

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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