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[06/18/13 - 04:15 PM]
Sunday's Cable Ratings: "True Blood" Returns on Top for HBO
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for sunday, june 16, 2013)

Here are the highlights of 37 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

True Blood (9:00) - HBO
4.520 million viewers, #1; 3.070 million adults 18-49 (2.4 rating), #1

Mountain Men (9:00) - History
2.847 million viewers, #2; 1.008 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #6

Falling Skies (10:00) - TNT
2.786 million viewers, #3; 1.234 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #3

Food Network Star (9:00) - Food
2.474 million viewers, #4; 1.015 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #5

Keeping Up with the Kardashians (9:00) - E!
2.134 million viewers, #5; 1.418 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #2

Real Housewives of New Jersey (8:00) - Bravo
2.105 million viewers, #6; 1.157 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #4

The Client List (10:00) - Lifetime
2.094 million viewers, #7; 0.931 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #7

Mad Men (10:00) - AMC
2.059 million viewers, #8; 0.921 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #8

Ice Road Truckers (10:00) - History
2.028 million viewers, #9; 0.633 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #16

The Client List (9:00) - Lifetime
1.896 million viewers, #10; 0.800 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #10

North America (9:00) - Discovery
1.840 million viewers, #11; 0.715 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #12

Long Island Medium (9:00) - TLC
1.818 million viewers, #12; 0.680 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #13

Long Island Medium (9:30) - TLC
1.796 million viewers, #13; 0.645 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #14

Breaking Amish: Brave New World (10:00) - TLC
1.700 million viewers, #14; 0.842 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #9

Restaurant: Impossible (10:00) - Food
1.655 million viewers, #15; 0.716 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #11

North America (10:00) - Discovery
1.635 million viewers, #16; 0.612 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #17

Alaska: The Last Frontier (8:00) - Discovery
1.608 million viewers, #17; 0.577 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #19

Sunday Night Baseball - ESPN
1.462 million viewers, #18; 0.480 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #22

Chopped (8:00) - Food
1.462 million viewers, #19; 0.487 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #21

19 Kids & Counting (8:00, 60 Minutes) - TLC
1.369 million viewers, #20; 0.578 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #18

The Killing (9:00) - AMC
1.357 million viewers, #21; 0.506 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #20

See Dad Run (8:00) - Nickelodeon
1.269 million viewers, #22; 0.342 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #28

College World Series (8:00) - ESPN2
1.145 million viewers, #23; 0.431 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #25

Veep (10:00) - HBO
1.025 million viewers, #24; 0.638 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #15

Call of the Wildman (9:00) - Animal Planet
0.948 million viewers, #25; 0.391 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #26

Storage Hunters (10:00) - truTV
0.891 million viewers, #26; 0.308 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #29

Princesses: Long Island (9:00) - Bravo
0.776 million viewers, #27; 0.460 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #23

Nurse Jackie (9:00) - Showtime
0.751 million viewers, #28; 0.346 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #27

The Wanted Life (10:00) - E!
0.628 million viewers, #29; 0.433 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #24

Family Tree (10:30) - HBO
0.540 million viewers, #30; 0.293 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #30

The Borgias (10:00) - Showtime
0.528 million viewers, #31; 0.160 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #35

Top Hooker (10:00) - Animal Planet
0.471 million viewers, #32; 0.247 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #31

Off the Hook: Extreme Catches (8:00) - Animal Planet
0.466 million viewers, #33; 0.177 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #33

Snapped (9:00) - Oxygen
0.461 million viewers, #34; 0.194 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #32

Off the Hook: Extreme Catches (8:30) - Animal Planet
0.432 million viewers, #35; 0.160 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #34

Oprah's Master Class (9:00) - OWN
0.320 million viewers, #36; 0.132 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #36

Oprah's Master Class (10:00) - OWN
0.314 million viewers, #37; 0.128 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #37

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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