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[07/30/13 - 04:00 PM]
Sunday's Cable Ratings: "True Blood" Remains on Top for HBO
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select cable nielsen ratings
(national numbers for sunday, july 28, 2013)

Here are the highlights of 38 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

True Blood (9:00) - HBO
4.357 million viewers, #1; 3.094 million adults 18-49 (2.4 rating), #1

Mountain Men (9:00) - History
3.742 million viewers, #2; 1.237 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #8

Naked & Afraid (10:00) - Discovery
3.616 million viewers, #3; 1.972 million adults 18-49 (1.6 rating), #2

Shake It Up (9:00) - Disney
3.597 million viewers, #4; 0.648 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #20

Good Luck Charlie (7:30) - Disney
3.357 million viewers, #5; 0.644 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #22

Austin & Ally (8:30) - Disney
3.320 million viewers, #6; 0.595 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #24

Falling Skies (10:00) - TNT
3.055 million viewers, #7; 1.291 million adults 18-49 (1.0 rating), #7

Dog with a Blog (8:00) - Disney
3.047 million viewers, #8; 0.460 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #30

Devious Maids (10:00) - Lifetime
2.884 million viewers, #9; 1.386 million adults 18-49 (1.1 rating), #6

Food Network Star (9:00) - Food
2.838 million viewers, #10; 1.087 million adults 18-49 (0.9 rating), #9

Keeping Up with the Kardashians (9:00) - E!
2.827 million viewers, #11; 1.730 million adults 18-49 (1.4 rating), #3

Dexter (9:00) - Showtime
2.550 million viewers, #12; 1.557 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #4

Real Housewives of New Jersey (8:00) - Bravo
2.481 million viewers, #13; 1.480 million adults 18-49 (1.2 rating), #5

Ice Road Truckers (10:00) - History
2.427 million viewers, #14; 0.894 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #14

Sunday Night Baseball - ESPN
2.377 million viewers, #15; 0.768 million adults 18-49 (0.6 rating), #17

Drop Dead Diva (9:00) - Lifetime
2.153 million viewers, #16; 0.873 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #15

Sister Wives (9:00) - TLC
1.974 million viewers, #17; 0.997 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #11

Restaurant: Impossible (10:00) - Food
1.860 million viewers, #18; 0.665 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #18

The Newsroom (10:00) - HBO
1.804 million viewers, #19; 1.017 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #10

Breaking Amish: LA (10:00) - TLC
1.776 million viewers, #20; 0.905 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #13

Bar Rescue (9:00) - Spike TV
1.482 million viewers, #21; 0.985 million adults 18-49 (0.8 rating), #12

The Killing (9:00) - AMC
1.471 million viewers, #22; 0.525 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #27

Sunday Best (8:00) - BET
1.471 million viewers, #23; 0.601 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #23

Ray Donovan (10:00) - Showtime
1.461 million viewers, #24; 0.657 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #19

Food Court Wars (8:00) - Food
1.430 million viewers, #25; 0.577 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #25

Total Divas (10:00) - E!
1.343 million viewers, #26; 0.855 million adults 18-49 (0.7 rating), #16

Storage Hunters (9:00) - truTV
1.301 million viewers, #27; 0.423 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #31

Call of the Wildman (9:00) - Animal Planet
1.278 million viewers, #28; 0.339 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #34

Container Wars (9:30) - truTV
1.172 million viewers, #29; 0.404 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #32

Gator Boys (10:00) - Animal Planet
1.087 million viewers, #30; 0.382 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #33

La La's Full Court Life (10:00) - VH1
1.069 million viewers, #31; 0.646 million adults 18-49 (0.5 rating), #21

Hollywood Exes (9:00) - VH1
0.957 million viewers, #32; 0.563 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #26

Princesses: Long Island (9:00) - Bravo
0.798 million viewers, #33; 0.482 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #29

Tattoo Rescue (10:00) - Spike TV
0.726 million viewers, #34; 0.509 million adults 18-49 (0.4 rating), #28

Oprah: Where Are They Now? (10:00) - OWN
0.657 million viewers, #35; 0.266 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #36

Snapped: Killer Couples (9:00) - Oxygen
0.608 million viewers, #36; 0.339 million adults 18-49 (0.3 rating), #35

Oprah's Next Chapter (9:00) - OWN
0.398 million viewers, #37; 0.161 million adults 18-49 (0.1 rating), #38

American Ninja Warrior (9:00) - G4
0.308 million viewers, #38; 0.227 million adults 18-49 (0.2 rating), #37

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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