With NFL and college football out of the way, Monday Night Raw again took the top two spots for the week, followed by NCIS, SpongeBob and Sarah Palin's debut on Fox News Channel on The O'Reilly Factor.
MTV's Jersey Shore made it into the top 25, as did TNT's Leverage. Jersey Shore was the number one program for the week with adults 18-34 and Leverage was the #4 program with adults 18-34
Some other stuff not in the top 25 table:
A weakened Project Runway on Lifetime with 2.941 million
The already renewed for a second season Men of a Certain Age on TNT with 2.868 million (though it was #5 for the week with people 25-54, just behind #4 Leverage)
A Friday Night Airing of I'm In The Band on Disney with 2.698 million
A repeat of George Lopez' sitcom on Nick at Night Friday averaged 2.616 million. The best telecast of Lopez' late-night show Lopez Tonight averaged 1.7 million on Monday January 11
A 6:30pm airing of True Jackson VP on Monday January 11 averaged 2.624 million - the most-watched airing of True Jackson for the week.
A syndicated telecast of Bones at 9pm on Monday January 11 averaged 2.565 million on TNT.
A&E's Hoarders averaged 2.246 million on Monday, January 11.
The debut of Archer on FX averaged 1.824 million on Thursday. It was the #49 program of the week with adults 18-49 (1.176 million) and #30 with adults 18-34 (.786 million)
Bad Girls Club on Oxygen averaged 1.734 million on Tuesday January 12. It was #28 with adults 18-34 with .799 million.
Supernatural is now airing in syndication on TNT at 10am - it's best episode averaged 908,000
The best airing of ESPN's Pardon The Interruption averaged 1.621 million on Monday January 11 and the best airing of Around the Horn averaged 1.229 million, also on Monday January 11.
The two-hour season finale of Sanctuary averaged 1.493 million viewers between 9p-11p on Friday night.
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Update: top 25 list updated to include shows that were left off the initial list I had (if you're interested in why, see comments in the comment section).
Top 25 cable shows for the week ending January 17, 2009:
| Rank | Shows | NET | DAY(S) | Time | Viewers Live+SD (000)2 |
| 1 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,492 |
| 2 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:09P | 5,403 |
| 3 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,615 |
| 4 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,505 |
| 5 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 09:30A-10:00A | 4,325 |
| 6 | NCIS | USA | Thu | 07:00P-08:00P | 4,212 |
| 7 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Thu | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,205 |
| 8 | PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR | NICK | Sat | 10:00A-10:30A | 4,167 |
| 9 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sun | 09:30A-10:00A | 4,087 |
| 10 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 07:00P-08:00P | 4,058 |
| 11 | Suite Life on Deck | DSNY | Fri | 08:30P-08:55P | 4,016 |
| 12 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Tue | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,954 |
| 13 | Wizards of Waverly Place | DSNY | Fri | 08:00P-08:30P | 3,940 |
| 14 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 12:30P-01:00P | 3,856 |
| 15 | GOOD BURGER | NAN | Sun | 08:00P-10:00P | 3,841 |
| 16 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 09:00P-10:00P | 3,807 |
| 17 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,791 |
| 18 | Jersey Shore | MTV | Thu | 11:00P-12:00A | 3,786 |
| 19 | FANBOY & CHUM CHUM | NICK | Sat | 10:30A-11:00A | 3,765 |
| 20 | BRING IT ON FIGHT/FIN PR | FAM | Sun | 08:00P-10:00P | 3,724 |
| 21 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Wed | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,688 |
| 22 | LEVERAGE | TNT | Wed | 10:00P-11:00P | 3,688 |
| 23 | iCarly | NICK | Sat | 01:00P-01:30P | 3,684 |
| 24 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Fri | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,661 |
| 25 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 09:00A-09:30A | 3,655 |
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