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[02/03/12 - 02:42 PM]
Thursday's Cable Ratings: "Jersey Shore" Falls to Season Low
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for thursday, february 2, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 19 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Jersey Shore - MTV
5.691 million viewers, #1; 4.140 million adults 18-49 (3.2 rating), #1

NBA Basketball: Chicago/New York - TNT
2.349 million viewers, #2; 1.193 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #2

NBA Basketball: Denver/L.A. Clippers - TNT
1.942 million viewers, #3; 1.108 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #3

Project Runway: All Stars - Lifetime
1.620 million viewers, #4; 0.727 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #6

Impact Wrestling - Spike TV
1.613 million viewers, #5; 0.702 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #7

truTV Presents: World's Dumbest - truTV
1.419 million viewers, #6; 0.702 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #8

Impractical Jokers (10:00) - truTV
1.304 million viewers, #7; 0.839 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #4

Archer - FX
1.063 million viewers, #8; 0.814 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #5

NY Ink - TLC
0.950 million viewers, #9; 0.539 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #9

Fat Chef - Food
0.916 million viewers, #10; 0.416 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #11

24 Hour Catwalk - Lifetime
0.662 million viewers, #11; 0.227 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #14

Unsupervised - FX
0.616 million viewers, #12; 0.483 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #10

Snake Man of Appalachia - Animal Planet
0.552 million viewers, #13; 0.210 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #15

American Stuffers - Animal Planet
0.550 million viewers, #14; 0.243 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #13

Russell Simmons Presents The Ruckus (10:00) - Comedy Central
0.535 million viewers, #15; 0.348 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #12

VH1 Pepsi Super Bowl Fan Jam - VH1
0.243 million viewers, #16; 0.160 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #16

The Union - HBO
0.170 million viewers, #17; 0.066 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #17

Love Etc. - OWN
0.097 million viewers, #18; 0.048 million adults 18-49 (0.0 rating), #18

Brooklyn Boheme - Showtime
0.021 million viewers, #19; 0.011 million adults 18-49 (0.0 rating), #19

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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