The first game of the Monday Night Football kickoff, the Bills vs. the Patriots on Monday September 14 was the most-watched show of the week with just over 14 million viewers, with the second game of the Chargers vs. Raiders in second with 11.95 million. The drop to third place WWE Raw with 5.1 million was steep. Sunday night's Hannah Montanta was in fourth place with 5.061 million and Monk rounded out the top five with 4.88 million.
I will doing highlights for ABC Family, Syfy, and Cartoon Network in separate posts, later in the day.
Outside of the Top 25, but just outside of it, really, was Liftime's Project Runway with 3.62 million. Army Wives with 3.28 Million, and Drop Dead Diva with 3.06 million also performed well for Lifetime.
Mad Men competed with itself winning the best drama Emmy and averaged 1.57 million viewers Sunday night at 10pm.
Top 25 cable shows for the week ending September 20, 2009:
| Rank | Shows | NET | DAY | Time | Households (000) | Viewers Live+SD (000) |
| 1 | NFL REGULAR SEASON L (BILLS/PATRIOTS) | ESPN | MONDAY | 7:00 PM | 10,224 | 14,001 |
| 2 | NFL REGULAR SEASON L (CHARGERS/RAIDERS) | ESPN | MONDAY | 10:17 PM | 8,774 | 11,945 |
| 3 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE Raw) | USA | MONDAY | 10:00 PM | 3,481 | 5,105 |
| 4 | HANNAH MONTANA | DSNY | SUNDAY | 7:30 PM | 3,487 | 5,061 |
| 5 | MONK | USA | FRIDAY | 9:00 PM | 3,374 | 4,879 |
| 6 | NCIS | USA | WEDNESDAY | 8:00 PM | 3,621 | 4,756 |
| 7 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT (WWE Raw) | USA | MONDAY | 9:00 PM | 3,241 | 4,733 |
| 8 | SUITE LIFE ON DECK | DSNY | FRIDAY | 8:30 PM | 3,130 | 4,547 |
| 9 | COLL FTBALL-THUR NIGHT L (GEORGIA TECH/MIAMI) | ESPN | THURSDAY | 7:30 PM | 3,332 | 4,390 |
| 10 | THE ULTIMATE FIGHTER | SPIKE | WEDNESDAY | 10:05 PM | 2,889 | 4,107 |
| 11 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXNC | TUESDAY | 8:00 PM | 3,123 | 4,039 |
| 12 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXNC | WEDNESDAY | 8:00 PM | 2,989 | 4,035 |
| 13 | PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR | NICK | SATURDAY | 10:00 AM | 3,049 | 4,026 |
| 14 | COLL FTBALL-SAT PRIME L (GEORGIA/ARKANSAS) | ESPN | SATURDAY | 7:41 PM | 2,850 | 4,025 |
| 15 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXNC | THURSDAY | 8:00 PM | 2,974 | 3,913 |
| 16 | S Suite Life on Deck(S)-09/18/2009 | DSNY | FRIDAY | 8:00 PM | 2,671 | 3,819 |
| 17 | UNDERDOG | DSNY | SATURDAY | 8:45 PM | 2,588 | 3,816 |
| 18 | NCIS | USA | MONDAY | 8:00 PM | 2,848 | 3,812 |
| 19 | PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR | NICK | SATURDAY | 10:30 AM | 2,747 | 3,798 |
| 20 | NCIS | USA | WEDNESDAY | 9:00 PM | 2,862 | 3,794 |
| 21 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXNC | MONDAY | 8:13 PM | 2,791 | 3,778 |
| 22 | iCarly | NICK | SATURDAY | 8:00 PM | 2,708 | 3,766 |
| 23 | PSYCH | USA | FRIDAY | 10:00 PM | 2,650 | 3,741 |
| 24 | SpongeBob | NICK | SATURDAY | 9:30 AM | 2,906 | 3,717 |
| 25 | SONS OF ANARCHY | FX | TUESDAY | 10:00 PM | 2,612 | 3,707 |
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Nielsen Ratings Data: ©2009 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. All ratings above Live+SD (live viewing plus same day DVR viewing)
Could you post the ratings for the 3 new episodes of “The Troop” on Nickelodeon – Friday from 8 – 9:30 p.m.?
Thank you!
I’d like to request ratings for UFC 103 on Spike Sat. Sept. 19th – thank you.
I’m amazed Monk is the top drama…the quality of the show has gone so far downhill lately.
Do you know how the British version of the Office(Adult Swim, Friday at midnight) did?
Any number for ECW?
Thanks
How did VH1′s Divas Live do? I’m surprised no figures have come out for it.
I wondered how much VH1 Diva’s did
How ’bout a troika of History Channel shows:
Pawn Stars
Universe
Nostradamus Effect
I thought that Patriots/Bills game last week was quite entertaining although I’m disappointed that hte Partiots won (I’m not a Bills fan. I just dislike the Patriots).
Anyway I would like to know how Real Chance of Love 2 and Tool Academy 2 did.
@ Grady. I believe the Diva’s program on VH1 got 1.1 million viewers. I saw it at the pifeedback forum on Friday but it would take me only a couple of minutes to go retrieve that information.
Goodness. The pifeedback forum is down. But I definitely remember seeing it in the Thursday post in the Last Night’s Results area of the site. It’s buried under at least 4-5 pages of comments but I’m absolutely sure it’s there.
I remember seeing it too. VH1 Divas did poorly. How am I so sure? In PR spin, no news is not good news. Silence is not golden. If VH1 had any ground on which to say the return of Divas was good, we would have heard about it by now.
I’m curious how True Blood ah I mean Bored to death and Curb did and how much Entourage will fall without the True Blood lead in.
Since Indy Car Racing was one of the “premium properties” acquired by Versus that is a lynch pin in their dispute with DirecTV, I’d be interested in the ratings from the Indy Japan 300 race Saturday night.
@Number Cruncher
I’ll take your word for it. Dingo is right, if it had done well, VH1 would have said so!
The title on the bar (below FAQ) says “Cable Top 20″ but this shows 25.
The UFC 103 preshow on Spike did a 1.0 rating and 1.4 million viewers.
Did Lifetime put out any numbers for the Georgia O’Keeffe movie aired on Saturday?
Can anyone tell me how Nickelodeon’s “True Jackson VP” did, as well as the three episodes of Nickelodeon’s “The Troop”?
Nickelodeon info here:
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2009/09/22/nickelodeon-nick-at-nite-highlights-for-the-week-of-september-14-20-2009/28081
Only one of “The Troop”, but…
@Grady – VH1 DIVAS had 1.065 million viewers on Thurs.
@Andrea2 – The G. O’Keeffe movie on Saturday got 1.923 mil