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[07/31/12 - 11:47 AM]
Sunday's Cable Ratings: "True Blood" Back in Front Among Viewers, Demos
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for sunday, july 29, 2012)

Here are the highlights of 30 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

True Blood - HBO
4.596 million viewers, #1; 3.388 million adults 18-49 (2.6 rating), #1

Shake It Up (8:30) - Disney
3.125 million viewers, #2; 0.490 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #18

Keeping Up With the Kardashians - E!
3.030 million viewers, #3; 1.997 million adults 18-49 (1.6 rating), #2

Good Luck Charlie (8:00) - Disney
3.006 million viewers, #4; 0.564 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #15

Breaking Bad - AMC
2.197 million viewers, #5; 1.423 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #3

Ice Road Truckers - History
2.184 million viewers, #6; 0.855 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #7

Sunday Night Baseball - ESPN
2.134 million viewers, #7; 0.763 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #10

Real Housewives of New Jersey - Bravo
2.068 million viewers, #8; 1.229 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #4

Sunday Best (8:00) - BET
1.791 million viewers, #9; 0.925 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #6

The Newsroom - HBO
1.739 million viewers, #10; 0.932 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #5

Political Animals (10:00) - USA
1.733 million viewers, #11; 0.555 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #16

Storage Hunters (10:00) - truTV
1.500 million viewers, #12; 0.668 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #11

Call of the Wildman (10:00) - Animal Planet
1.440 million viewers, #13; 0.635 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #12

Hoarding: Buried Alive - TLC
1.271 million viewers, #14; 0.600 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #13

Chopped: Grill Masters (9:00) - Food
1.211 million viewers, #15; 0.579 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #14

Bar Rescue (9:00) - Spike TV
1.201 million viewers, #16; 0.779 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #9

Bar Rescue (10:00) - Spike TV
1.193 million viewers, #17; 0.794 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #8

Combat Pawn - truTV
1.015 million viewers, #18; 0.514 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #17

Gator Boys - Animal Planet
0.921 million viewers, #19; 0.400 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #23

Iron Chef America (10:00) - Food
0.842 million viewers, #20; 0.419 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #21

Strange Sex (10:30) - TLC
0.838 million viewers, #21; 0.489 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #19

Cupcake Wars - Food
0.833 million viewers, #22; 0.409 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #22

Strange Sex (10:00) - TLC
0.827 million viewers, #23; 0.448 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #20

Hillbilly Handfishin' - Animal Planet
0.648 million viewers, #24; 0.278 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #27

Mob Wives Chicago (8:00) - VH1
0.555 million viewers, #25; 0.347 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #25

Big Ang - VH1
0.548 million viewers, #26; 0.341 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #26

Snapped - Oxygen
0.546 million viewers, #27; 0.258 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #28

Weeds - Showtime
0.478 million viewers, #28; 0.360 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #24

Oprah's Lifeclass (10:00) - OWN
0.281 million viewers, #29; 0.084 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #30

Episodes - Showtime
0.239 million viewers, #30; 0.127 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #29

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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