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[07/10/12 - 01:16 PM]
Sunday's Cable Ratings: "True Blood" Remains Unstoppable for HBO
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for sunday, july 8, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 36 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

True Blood - HBO
4.500 million viewers, #1; 3.377 million adults 18-49 (2.6 rating), #1

Longmire - A&E
4.064 million viewers, #2; 0.903 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #15

Falling Skies - TNT
3.635 million viewers, #3; 1.540 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #4

Army Wives - Lifetime
3.291 million viewers, #4; 1.382 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #5

The Glades - A&E
3.192 million viewers, #5; 0.998 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #11

Sunday Night Baseball - ESPN
3.071 million viewers, #6; 1.147 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #8

Ice Road Truckers - History
2.595 million viewers, #7; 0.971 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #12

Keeping Up With the Kardashians - E!
2.524 million viewers, #8; 1.742 million adults 18-49 (1.4 rating), #2

Real Housewives of New Jersey - Bravo
2.516 million viewers, #9; 1.558 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #3

Next Food Network Star (9:00) - Food
2.514 million viewers, #10; 1.018 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #10

Storage Hunters (10:00) - truTV
2.324 million viewers, #11; 1.199 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #7

Drop Dead Diva - Lifetime
2.277 million viewers, #12; 1.034 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #9

The Newsroom - HBO
2.211 million viewers, #13; 1.200 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #6

Sunday Best (8:00, 120 Minutes) - BET
2.058 million viewers, #14; 0.883 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #16

Call of the Wildman (10:00) - Animal Planet
1.629 million viewers, #15; 0.679 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #20

Talking Dead - AMC
1.588 million viewers, #16; 0.965 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #13

The Walking Dead: Black & White - AMC
1.585 million viewers, #17; 0.935 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #14

Gator Boys - Animal Planet
1.514 million viewers, #18; 0.597 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #21

Cupcake Wars - Food
1.420 million viewers, #19; 0.542 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #23

Hoarding: Buried Alive - TLC
1.419 million viewers, #20; 0.753 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #18

Iron Chef America (10:00) - Food
1.270 million viewers, #21; 0.584 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #22

The Great Escape - TNT
1.249 million viewers, #22; 0.755 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #17

Shark Wranglers - History
1.111 million viewers, #23; 0.538 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #24

Mrs. Eastwood & Company (10:00) - E!
1.060 million viewers, #24; 0.714 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #19

Hell and Back: Special Ops Ranger - Discovery
0.974 million viewers, #25; 0.506 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #25

Bounty Wars - Discovery
0.722 million viewers, #26; 0.425 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #28

Snapped - Oxygen
0.685 million viewers, #27; 0.392 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #29

Big Ang - VH1
0.670 million viewers, #28; 0.455 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #26

Mass Moon Wedding - TLC
0.640 million viewers, #29; 0.374 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #30

Weeds - Showtime
0.608 million viewers, #30; 0.426 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #27

Mob Wives Chicago (8:00) - VH1
0.481 million viewers, #31; 0.335 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #31

Oprah's Next Chapter (8:00) - OWN
0.479 million viewers, #32; 0.241 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #32

Episodes - Showtime
0.373 million viewers, #33; 0.229 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #33

American Ninja Warrior (9:00) - G4
0.358 million viewers, #34; 0.202 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #34

Oprah Builds a Network - OWN
0.272 million viewers, #35; 0.132 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #36

American Ninja Warrior (10:00) - G4
0.265 million viewers, #36; 0.175 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #35

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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