select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for tuesday, december 20, 2011)

Here are the highlights of 20 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Storage Wars (10:00) (4.824 million viewers, #1; adults 18-49: 1.9, #1)

Storage Wars: Texas (10:30) (4.039 million viewers, #2; adults 18-49: 1.6, #3)

Teen Mom 2 (3.295 million viewers, #3; adults 18-49: 1.8, #2)

Hardcore Pawn (9:00) (2.704 million viewers, #4; adults 18-49: 1.1, #4)

Beef 'O' Brady's St. Petersburg Bowl (2.171 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T6)

Storage Hunters (9:30) (2.060 million viewers, #6; adults 18-49: 0.8, #5)

Chopped (1.846 million viewers, #7; adults 18-49: 0.7, #T6)

TNT Mystery Movie Night: Deck the Halls (1.798 million viewers, #8; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T13)

Dirty Jobs (1.326 million viewers, #9; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T8)

Swamp Loggers (1.190 million viewers, #10; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T8)

Reed Between the Lines (10:00) (1.057 million viewers, #11; adults 18-49: 0.5, #T8)

America's Supernanny (1.050 million viewers, #12; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T11)

Reed Between the Lines (10:30) (0.985 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.4, #T11)

What Not to Wear (9:00) (0.975 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T13)

Flip Men (10:00) (0.727 million viewers, #15; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T13)

One Born Every Minute (0.706 million viewers, #16; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T13)

Kathy Griffin: Tired Hooker (0.673 million viewers, #17; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T13)

E! True Hollywood Story: Timbaland (0.520 million viewers, #18; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T13)

Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood (0.326 million viewers, #19; adults 18-49: 0.2, #19)

Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan (0.180 million viewers, #20; adults 18-49: 0.1, #20)

Source: Nielsen Media Research