USA Network's WWE Raw led all weekly cable viewing, followed by the movie Another Cinderella Story on Family. Another installment of WWE Raw, iCarly and Monk rounded out the top five. Bush's brief farewell speech followed by after coverage both made the top 10 for Fox News, and VH1's Real Chance of Love also shoehorned into the top ten.
Five SpongeBob airings along with five airings of NCIS pretty much filled out the top twenty. I've included a bunch of additional shows this week, and though they are sorted by viewers, they are not ranked (literally hundreds of airings of shows are left out). If your favorite was not included...sorry!
Please note that these numbers are only for advertising supported cable shows. We didn't see any premium cable show info and as of this writing (9:30AM on Wednesday January 21) I have not seen any information for premium shows that aired Sunday like Big Love on HBO and United States Of Tara on Showtime.
Update 01/21/09 2pm PT: James Hibberd reports that HBO's Big Love returned to 1.2 million and Flight of the Conchords averaged 560,000. Both are off around 50% from last year's numbers. Meanwhile the initial airing of the series premiere of the United States Of Tara on Sunday night averaged 880,000.
Full Top 20 Cable Results for the week ending 01/18/2009:
| Rank | Shows | NET | DAY | Time | Viewers Live+SD (000) |
| 1 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:10P | 5,411 |
| 2 | ANOTHER CINDERELLA STY PR | FAM | Sun | 08:00P-10:00P | 5,296 |
| 3 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,086 |
| 4 | iCarly | NICK | Sat | 08:00P-08:30P | 5,052 |
| 5 | MONK | USA | Fri | 09:00P-10:00P | 4,941 |
| 6 | PRES FAREWELL ADDRESS | FOXN | Thu | 08:00P-08:15P | 4,855 |
| 7 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 12:00P-12:30P | 4,243 |
| 8 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Thu | 08:15P-09:00P | 4,241 |
| 9 | NCIS | USA | Thu | 07:00P-08:00P | 4,206 |
| 10 | REAL CHANCE OF LOVE | VH1 | Mon | 09:00P-10:30P | 4,186 |
| 11 | SUITE LIFE ON DECK | DSNY | Fri | 08:00P-08:30P | 4,122 |
| 12 | BACK AT THE BARNYARD | NICK | Sat | 10:00A-10:30A | 4,149 |
| 13 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 12:30P-01:00P | 4,082 |
| 14 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sun | 12:00P-12:30P | 3,957 |
| 15 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,956 |
| 16 | NCIS | USA | Fri | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,942 |
| 17 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 11:30A-12:00P | 3,910 |
| 18 | NCIS | USA | Tue | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,883 |
| 19 | SpongeBob | NICK | Fri | 05:30P-06:00P | 3,857 |
| 20 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,852 |
| Other Shows | |||||
| PSYCH | USA | Fri | 10:00P-11:00P | 3,646 | |
| TRUE JACKSON, VP | NICK | Sat | 08:30P-09:00P | 3,565 | |
| MIGHTY B! | NICK | Sat | 10:30A-11:00A | 3,497 | |
| iCarly | NICK | Sat | 07:30P-08:00P | 3,433 | |
| TOP CHEF | BRAV | Wed | 10:00P-11:00P | 3,172 | |
| PHINEAS AND FERB | DSNY | Fri | 08:30P-09:00P | 3,194 | |
| SR/THE OBAMA EXPRESS | CNN | Sat | 04:00P-05:00P | 3,162 | |
| BACK AT THE BARNYARD | NICK | Sun | 10:00A-10:30A | 3,158 | |
| SECRET LIFE/AMERICAN TEEN | FAM | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,141 | |
| THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Fri | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,115 | |
| MEET THE BROWNS | TBSC | Wed | 10:30P-11:00P | 3,111 | |
| MEET THE BROWNS | TBSC | Wed | 10:00P-10:30P | 3,103 | |
| FAIRLY ODD PARENTS | NICK | Sat | 08:30A-09:00A | 2,878 | |
| A CINDERELLA STORY | FAM | Sun | 06:00P-08:00P | 2,864 | |
| LEVERAGE | TNT | Tue | 10:00P-11:00P | 2,657 | |
| LAW & ORDER | TNT | Mon | 10:00P-11:00P | 2,649 | |
| S BIG FAT LIAR | DSNY | Sat | 10:00P-11:35P | 2,607 | |
| NIP TUCK | FX | Tue | 10:00P-11:02P | 2,528 | |
| HOME IMPROVEMENT | NAN | Fri | 11:00P-11:30P | 2,454 | |
| YOU, ME AND DUPREE | TBSC | Fri | 08:00P-10:00P | 2,428 | |
| NFL COUNTDOWN L | ESPN | Sun | 11:00A-01:00P | 2,427 | |
| REAL WORLD XXI | MTV | Wed | 10:00P-11:00P | 2,423 | |
| THE FIRST 48 | A&E | Thu | 09:00P-10:00P | 2,401 | |
| BEAST, THE | A&E | Thu | 10:00P-10:52P | 2,397 | |
| STAR WARS:CLONE WARS | TOON | Fri | 09:00P-09:30P | 2,352 | |
| PITTSBURGH/LOUISVILLE | ESPN | Sat | 06:19P-08:24P | 2,293 | |
| HOUSE OF PAYNE | TBSC | Wed | 11:00P-11:30P | 2,258 | |
| DORA THE EXPLORER | NICK | Fri | 10:30A-11:00A | 2,237 | |
| BATTLSTR GALACTICA (ORIG) | SCIF | Fri | 10:00P-11:03P | 2,112 | |
| JEFF DUNHAM: SPARK OF INS | CMDY | Sat | 08:30P-10:00P | 2,079 | |
| AMERICAS BEST DANCE CREW | MTV | Thu | 10:00P-11:30P | 2,017 | |
| LAKERS/SPURS | ESPN | Wed | 09:05P-11:37P | 1,955 | |
| FAMILY MATTERS | NAN | Sat | 12:00A-12:30A | 1,849 | |
| BURN NOTICE | USA | Thu | 12:00A-01:00A | 1,844 | |
| THATS SO RAVEN - LN | DSNY | Sat | 12:00A-12:30A | 1,808 | |
| DAILY SHOW | CMDY | Wed | 10:59P-11:30P | 1,800 | |
| CITY, THE | MTV | Mon | 10:00P-10:30P | 1,689 | |
| DADDYS GIRLS | MTV | Mon | 10:30P-11:00P | 1,437 | |
| MTV TEEN CRIBS | MTV | Sat | 02:00P-02:30P | 1,396 | |
| DOUBLE SHOT AT LOVE | MTV | Tue | 10:00P-11:00P | 1,378 | |
| DIRTY JOBS | DISC | Sun | 08:00P-09:00P | 1,611 | |
| KYLE XY | FAM | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 1,497 | |
| PARDON THE INTERRUPTION | ESPN | Mon | 05:30P-06:00P | 1,273 | |
| DAMAGES | FX | Wed | 10:00P-11:03P | 1,135 |
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