Only in the weekly top cable show posts are you likely to see iCarly and Hannity in the same sentence! SpongeBob and The O'Reilly Factor, too!
Good news/bad news. The good news is that pretty much almost everything in the top 25 from iCarly's series high numbers for its Monday night special (leading in to Big Time Rush) to Hannity and Greta (fueled by last Tuesday's election in Mass.) to Wizards of Waverly Place to the Lifetime movie The Pregnancy Pact to the Jersey Shore finale to the mid-season premieres of Burn Notice and White Collar were already posted.
The bad news for our regular readers is you've already seen all that stuff, just not ranked as it is below.
We even have already posted a bit of stuff that isn't on the list, like the Caprica premiere on Syfy and even Starz' Spartacus: Blood and Sand. Unfortunately we can't post everything, but we post quite a bit, so in addition to the recommendations for finding cable ratings below, I also recommend our site's search feature near the top right of the site.
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Top 25 cable shows for the week ending January 24, 2010:
| Rank | Shows | NET | DAY(S) | Time | Viewers Live+SD (000)2 |
| 1 | iCarly | NAN | Mon | 08:00P-08:30P | 11,164 |
| 2 | Hannity | FOXN | Tue | 09:00P-10:00P | 6,809 |
| 3 | Big Time Rush | NAN | Mon | 08:30P-09:00P | 6,773 |
| 4 | ON THE RECORD W/GRETA | FOXN | Tue | 10:00P-11:00P | 6,399 |
| 5 | iCarly | NICK | Mon | 07:30P-08:00P | 6,290 |
| 6 | Wizards of Waverly Place | DSNY | Fri | 08:00P-09:00P | 6,217 |
| 7 | THE PREGNANCY PACT | LIFE | Sat | 09:00P-11:00P | 5,856 |
| 8 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:08P | 5,414 |
| 9 | Burn Notice | USA | Thu | 10:00P-11:00P | 5,351 |
| 10 | Suite Life on Deck | DSNY | Fri | 09:00P-09:30P | 5,232 |
| 11 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Tue | 08:00P-09:00P | 5,228 |
| 12 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,175 |
| 13 | iCarly | NICK | Mon | 07:00P-07:30P | 5,080 |
| 14 | NCIS | USA | Fri | 08:00P-09:00P | 5,035 |
| 15 | SpongeBob | NICK | Mon | 11:00A-11:30A | 4,965 |
| 16 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 09:30A-10:00A | 4,936 |
| 17 | SpongeBob | NICK | Mon | 11:30A-12:00P | 4,893 |
| 18 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Thu | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,838 |
| 19 | Jersey Shore | MTV | Thu | 10:00P-11:00P | 4,834 |
| 20 | SpongeBob | NICK | Mon | 10:30A-11:00A | 4,748 |
| 21 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 07:00P-08:00P | 4,734 |
| 22 | WHITE COLLAR | USA | Tue | 10:00P-11:00P | 4,722 |
| 23 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Wed | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,632 |
| 24 | iCarly MOVIE: IQUITICARLY | NICK | Mon | 06:00P-07:00P | 4,585 |
| 25 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,526 |
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Nielsen Ratings Data: ©2010 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. All ratings above Live+SD (live viewing plus same day DVR viewing)
Why is Nick listed as NAN and NICK?
11mil for iCarly?? Was it a special?
I see NAN is Nick at Nite. Never mind. Odd that iCarly would be NAN and not NICK.
Those were some monster numbers for iCarly. Look at Miranda with those cupcakes. Nick at Nite starts at 8pm now in days so everything that airs after 8pm will be counted as NAN except I believe on the weekends.
Nickelodeon did it again!
Holy Pregnancy Pact batman.
Once you hit primtime (8pm) Nielsen tracks it as Nick at Nite rather than Nickelodeon.
Whoa……..20% of the top 25 cable shows are from Fox News?????? I knew they were clobbering other cable news channels, but this is sure new!!!!
Does anybody have Nielsen numbers for how ‘The Goode Family’ is doing on Comedy Central? The cable channel started encoring the 13-episode first season of the ABC series on Wednesday January 6th at 10:30 pm, and I’m curious as to the ratings for the January 6th, 13th and 20th episodes. Comedy Central has indicated that if the ratings are goode enough, they might give the series a second season order.
Thank you.
“11mil for iCarly?? Was it a special?”
Yes. Every time iCarly includes dating between characters, numbers go through the roof.
iCarly should be on Monday nights every week!
The numbers for Burn Notice’s return seem solid, though a drop from their summer run.
i think the episode of icarly was just so hyped up and i think thats why it got so much viewers.
iCarly and Big Time Rush are good shows. Nick should pat themselves on the back.
Hey Dumont — looking back at my reports, I see GOODE FAMILY airing on Mondays at 10, not Wednesdays 10:30. On 1/4 = 0.495 mil, 0.2/1 A1849; 1/11 = 0.562, 0.3/1; 1/18 = 0.489, 0.3/1. Numbers are a tad lower then those for the Reno 911/Futurama/South Park reruns that air that night…
I didn’t expect such big numbers for Pregnancy Pact, I didn’t realize it was such a “waited” movie.
any excat numbers on what leverage did rob or bill thanks.
steve: the site search feature is your friend. That was posted already, too.
http://tvbythenumbers.com/2010/01/14/leverage-season-premiere-solidly-with-3-69-million-viewers/38964
Interesting that the show that aired on USA on Monday night at 7 PM (NCIS) as well as both WWE hours that night, of course, made the Top 25, but the Monday 8 PM show is absent! How’s that for continuity!
TVBill says:
January 26, 2010 at 2:02 pm
Hey Dumont — looking back at my reports, I see GOODE FAMILY airing on Mondays at 10, not Wednesdays 10:30. On 1/4 = 0.495 mil, 0.2/1 A1849; 1/11 = 0.562, 0.3/1; 1/18 = 0.489, 0.3/1. Numbers are a tad lower then those for the Reno 911/Futurama/South Park reruns that air that night…
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Thank you for posting TVBill.
Interesting to see that while ‘The Goode Family’ encores of Comedy Central are garnering only 36% of the P2+ viewership of the ABC Friday at 8:30 pm average from last summer, they are also averaging 58% of the A18-49s average that ABC attracted.
This evidence of the young adult skew for ‘The Goode Family’ is what I think Comedy Central was looking for when they picked up the encores. That the relatively unknown ‘The Goode Family’ encores are just a “tad” lower than encores of the established comedies ‘Reno 911′, ‘Futurama’, and ‘South Park’ must also be pleasing to Comedy Central.
I’ll keep my ear to the ground concerning Comedy Centrals upcoming decision on whether or not to greenlight further episodes.