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[07/14/11 - 02:58 PM]
Wednesday's Cable Ratings: "Royal Pains" Holds the Line
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for wednesday, july 13, 2011)

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

Royal Pains (4.922 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.3, #1)

Necessary Roughness (3.990 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.1, #2)

Franklin & Bash (2.547 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T5)

Hot in Cleveland (2.001 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T14)

ESPY Awards (1.984 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 1.0, #3)

Rescue Me (1.646 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T5)

Roseanne's Nuts (9:00) (1.638 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T5)

The Challenge: Rivals (1.616 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.9, #4)

Happily Divorced (1.553 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T14)

Toddlers & Tiaras (1.526 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T12)

Operation Repo (9:00) (1.515 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T12)

Roseanne's Nuts (9:30) (1.488 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T8)

Restaurant: Impossible (1.386 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T8)

Sons of Guns (1.235 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T8)

South Park (Repeat) (1.196 million viewers, #15; adults 18-49: 0.6, #T8)

Legend Quest (1.180 million viewers, #16; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T14)

Ghost Hunters International (1.173 million viewers, #17; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T14)

Melissa & Joey (1.028 million viewers, #18; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T14)

Dance Moms (1.005 million viewers, #19; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T14)

One Man Army (0.752 million viewers, #20; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T21)

E! Special: Nicki Minaj (0.732 million viewers, #21; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T14)

I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant (9:00) (0.716 million viewers, #22; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T21)

ESPY Countdown Show (0.715 million viewers, #23; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T21)

I Didn't Know I Was Pregnant (9:30) (0.662 million viewers, #24; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T21)

Rocco's Dinner Party (0.651 million viewers, #25; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T21)

State of Georgia (0.647 million viewers, #26; adults 18-49: 0.2, #T27)

Jon Benjamin Has a Van (0.604 million viewers, #27; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T21)

I Shouldn't Be Alive (0.584 million viewers, #28; adults 18-49: 0.2, #T27)

Behind the Music (0.410 million viewers, #29; adults 18-49: 0.2, #T27)

The World According to Paris (0.260 million viewers, #30; adults 18-49: 0.1, #T30)

Clean House (0.151 million viewers, #31; adults 18-49: 0.1, #T30)

The Franchise: A Season with the San Francisco Giants (0.100 million viewers, #32; adults 18-49: 0.0, #T32)

Inside NASCAR (0.026 million viewers, #33; adults 18-49: 0.0, #T32)

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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