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[07/11/14 - 03:37 PM]
Thursday's Cable Ratings & Broadcast Finals: "Big Brother" Once Again Tops Charts
By The Futon Critic Staff (TFC)

select final nielsen ratings
(national numbers for thursday, july 10, 2014)

Here are the highlights of 49 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast and cable networks last night, courtesy of TravisYanan:

Big Brother 16 (9:00) - CBS
6.204 million viewers, #1; 2.637 million adults 18-49 (2.08 rating), #1

NY Med (10:00) - ABC
5.343 million viewers, #2; 1.176 million adults 18-49 (0.93 rating), #7

Rookie Blue (9:00) - ABC
5.133 million viewers, #3; 1.095 million adults 18-49 (0.86 rating), #9

Hell's Kitchen (8:00) - FOX
4.787 million viewers, #4; 1.936 million adults 18-49 (1.53 rating), #2

Hollywood Game Night (8:00) - NBC
3.773 million viewers, #5; 1.198 million adults 18-49 (0.94 rating), #5

Black Box (8:00) - ABC
3.717 million viewers, #6; 0.901 million adults 18-49 (0.71 rating), #13

Welcome to Sweden (9:00) - NBC
3.508 million viewers, #7; 1.164 million adults 18-49 (0.92 rating), #8

Pawn Stars (9:30) - History
3.477 million viewers, #8; 1.263 million adults 18-49 (0.99 rating), #3

Last Comic Standing (10:00) - NBC
3.325 million viewers, #9; 1.206 million adults 18-49 (0.95 rating), #4

Pawn Stars (9:00) - History
3.278 million viewers, #10; 1.177 million adults 18-49 (0.93 rating), #6

Pawnography (10:00) - History
2.905 million viewers, #11; 0.980 million adults 18-49 (0.77 rating), #11

Pawnography (10:30) - History
2.745 million viewers, #12; 1.010 million adults 18-49 (0.80 rating), #10

Working the Engels (9:30) - NBC
2.731 million viewers, #13; 0.854 million adults 18-49 (0.67 rating), #15

Gang Related (9:00) - FOX
2.341 million viewers, #14; 0.933 million adults 18-49 (0.74 rating), #12

House Hunters (10:00) - HGTV
2.009 million viewers, #15; 0.631 million adults 18-49 (0.50 rating), #22

House Hunters International (10:30) - HGTV
1.752 million viewers, #16; 0.556 million adults 18-49 (0.44 rating), #26

Fixer Upper (9:00) - HGTV
1.694 million viewers, #17; 0.505 million adults 18-49 (0.40 rating), #30

The First 48 (9:00) - A&E
1.686 million viewers, #18; 0.813 million adults 18-49 (0.64 rating), #17

Defiance (8:00) - Syfy
1.646 million viewers, #19; 0.631 million adults 18-49 (0.50 rating), #23

Dominion (9:00) - Syfy
1.620 million viewers, #20; 0.576 million adults 18-49 (0.45 rating), #25

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (9:30) - TLC
1.497 million viewers, #21; 0.842 million adults 18-49 (0.66 rating), #16

Ridiculousness (10:00) - MTV
1.486 million viewers, #22; 0.871 million adults 18-49 (0.69 rating), #14

Here Comes Honey Boo Boo (9:00) - TLC
1.340 million viewers, #23; 0.695 million adults 18-49 (0.55 rating), #20

Impact Wrestling (9:00) - Spike TV
1.284 million viewers, #24; 0.463 million adults 18-49 (0.36 rating), #31

Leah Remini: It's All Relative (10:00) - TLC
1.284 million viewers, #25; 0.719 million adults 18-49 (0.57 rating), #19

Beyond Scared Straight (10:00) - A&E
1.273 million viewers, #26; 0.685 million adults 18-49 (0.54 rating), #21

MythBusters (9:00) - Discovery
1.150 million viewers, #27; 0.613 million adults 18-49 (0.48 rating), #24

Impractical Jokers (9:30) - truTV
1.148 million viewers, #28; 0.751 million adults 18-49 (0.59 rating), #18

Leah Remini: It's All Relative (10:30) - TLC
1.012 million viewers, #29; 0.520 million adults 18-49 (0.41 rating), #29

The Carbonaro Effect (10:00) - truTV
0.933 million viewers, #30; 0.538 million adults 18-49 (0.42 rating), #28

Beasts of the Bayou (10:00) - Discovery
0.905 million viewers, #31; 0.412 million adults 18-49 (0.32 rating), #33

Snack-Off (10:30) - MTV
0.834 million viewers, #32; 0.452 million adults 18-49 (0.36 rating), #32

LA Hair (9:00) - WE tv
0.762 million viewers, #33; 0.394 million adults 18-49 (0.31 rating), #34

Party Down South (10:00) - CMT
0.743 million viewers, #34; 0.549 million adults 18-49 (0.43 rating), #27

Handsome Devils (9:00)* - ID
0.730 million viewers, #35; 0.181 million adults 18-49 (0.14 rating), #37

Southern Fried Homicide (10:00)* - ID
0.730 million viewers, #36; 0.181 million adults 18-49 (0.14 rating), #38

E! True Hollywood Story: Duck Dynasty (8:00)* - E!
0.719 million viewers, #37; 0.387 million adults 18-49 (0.31 rating), #35

The Sixties (9:00)* - CNN
0.644 million viewers, #38; 0.120 million adults 18-49 (0.09 rating), #39

The American Bible Challenge (8:00)* - GSN
0.439 million viewers, #39; 0.067 million adults 18-49 (0.05 rating), #44

It Takes a Church (9:00)* - GSN
0.439 million viewers, #40; 0.067 million adults 18-49 (0.05 rating), #45

North Wood Law (9:00)* - Animal Planet
0.394 million viewers, #41; 0.185 million adults 18-49 (0.15 rating), #36

Our America with Lisa Ling (10:00)* - OWN
0.269 million viewers, #42; 0.084 million adults 18-49 (0.07 rating), #40

How Do They Do It? (9:30)* - Science
0.224 million viewers, #43; 0.070 million adults 18-49 (0.05 rating), #43

Rectify (9:00)* - Sundance
0.179 million viewers, #44; 0.042 million adults 18-49 (0.03 rating), #46

Maron (10:00)* - IFC
0.172 million viewers, #45; 0.070 million adults 18-49 (0.06 rating), #41

Comedy Bang! Bang! (10:30)* - IFC
0.172 million viewers, #46; 0.070 million adults 18-49 (0.06 rating), #42

Food Factory (9:00, 60 Minutes)* - FYI
0.092 million viewers, #47; 0.034 million adults 18-49 (0.03 rating), #47

World Food Championships (10:00)* - FYI
0.092 million viewers, #48; 0.034 million adults 18-49 (0.03 rating), #48

Junk Gypsies (9:00)* - GAC
0.048 million viewers, #49; 0.026 million adults 18-49 (0.02 rating), #49

[EDITOR'S NOTE: * denotes individual program numbers were not available so the network's primetime average is listed]

Source: Nielsen Media Research





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