WWE RAW, Cars, Hannah Montana and SpongeBob Lead Weekly Cable Viewing

WWE Raw took the top two spots for the week, but led by an airing of the movie Cars, Hannah Montana, Wizards of Waverly Place and Sonny with a Chance, Disney dethroned USA Network as the primetime king for the week.

Much ado was made over Jim Cramer's appearance with Jon Stewart on Thursday's The Daily Show, and its ratings, but I didn't see any of those reports including the information that Wednesday's Daily Show, perhaps fueled by an improving Important Things with Demetri Martin as a lead-in had more viewers than the Thursday Cramer appearance!   Some will say it is the increased anticipation for The Daily Show that is helping out Important Things.  Either way Wednesday's airing of The Daily Show with 2.348 million edged out the Cramer appearance on Thursday that had 2.323 million.

That's So Raven had some sort of time slot change that impaired its ratings.  Why Disney, why?!

I didn't look to see how it's replacement did at midnight, but I took it as a sign and decided to use the best performance of That's So Raven as some sort of imaginary cut off for the extra shows in the table below.     So, I cut it off there, but, in the spirit of knowing I'll be hounded by a pack of mad dogs, Moonlight got 1.003 million viewers on Friday.

Fans of TNT's Trust Me - sorry, but your show seems doomed with 876,000 watching last Tuesday at 10pm, but then again, that was better than Damages 703,000 Wednesday at 10pm on FX.  TNT is searching for answers with new episodes of Saving Grace just edging out repeats of The Closer (info in the table below).

The penultimate episode of  Kyle XY had 1.283 million viewers.

Update: James Hibberd reports Sunday night's airing of Big Love averaged 2.3 million -- it's second most-watched episode of the season.  Will Ferrell: You're Welcome America -- A Final Night with George W. Bush also averaged 2.3 million.  That's the best a comedy special has done on HBO since 2004 according to Hibberd.  Hibberd also has the Eastbound & Down numbers.

Top 20 cable shows for the week ending March 15, 2009:

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Please note, all shows outside of the top twenty are sorted by viewers but ARE NOT ranked. If you don't see a show listed here, the only thing you can conclude for sure is that it wasn't in the top twenty.   The top twenty would include premium cable, if any of those shows ever made the top twenty.  But the additional show list is for advertising supported basic cable networks only. We do not see data directly for premium cable channels. I don't KNOW how Big Love did, but if I see anything I'll post it here and if you see anything, please post a link in the comments.

There are over 14,000 shows. I'm not taking requests as it would be impossible to please everyone. Sorry!  If you make a request in the comments anyway, I will ignore it, sorry.

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