Have the mighty fallen? Burn Notice was pushed out of the top 10 by a slew of kids programs and WWE Monday Night Raw, but the 18-49 rankings look quite a bit different than the general rankings below. With adults 18-49 Burn Notice was third for the week (trailing both of the WWE Raw), Teen Mom: Check Up With Dr. Drew was number four, Pawn Stars was number 5 (and number 7) and Family Guy reruns on Adult Swim were number 6, 8 and 10! Family Guy reruns accounted for 14 of the top 50 programs with adults 18-49 on ad supported basic cable.
What is Burn Notice? It's not a reality show about sunglasses.
Top 25 cable shows for the week ending February 7, 2010:
| Rank | Shows | NET | DAY( | Time | Viewers Live+SD (000) |
| 1 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:13P | 5,561 |
| 2 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 09:30A-10:00A | 5,516 |
| 3 | PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR | NICK | Sat | 10:00A-10:30A | 5,154 |
| 4 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,012 |
| 5 | iCarly | NICK | Fri | 08:00P-08:30P | 4,839 |
| 6 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 09:00A-09:30A | 4,522 |
| 7 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,455 |
| 8 | iCarly | NICK | Sat | 08:00P-08:30P | 4,456 |
| 9 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 06:30P-07:00P | 4,272 |
| 10 | FANBOY & CHUM CHUM | NICK | Sat | 10:30A-11:00A | 4,270 |
| 11 | Burn Notice | USA | Thu | 10:00P-11:00P | 4,247 |
| 12 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Thu | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,176 |
| 13 | NCIS | USA | Sat | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,175 |
| 14 | iCarly | NICK | Sat | 12:00P-12:30P | 4,181 |
| 15 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 06:00P-06:30P | 4,128 |
| 16 | Pawn Stars | HIST | Mon | 10:30P-11:00P | 4,121 |
| 17 | iCarly | NICK | Sat | 07:00P-07:30P | 4,117 |
| 18 | NCIS | USA | Sat | 09:00P-10:00P | 4,106 |
| 19 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Wed | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,091 |
| 20 | NCIS | USA | Wed | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,008 |
| 21 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 07:00P-08:00P | 3,964 |
| 22 | iCarly | NICK | Fri | 07:30P-08:00P | 3,883 |
| 23 | NCIS | USA | Sat | 10:00P-11:00P | 3,872 |
| 24 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 05:30P-06:00P | 3,862 |
| 25 | THE OREILLY FACTOR | FOXN | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 3,861 |
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Nothing from Tuesday made it into the chart. Ha, Lost really did hit all the cable channels hard, didn’t it?
in total viewers, the only cable show in primetime that made it into the top 50 from Tuesday was The O’Reilly Factor (but that was from 8pm-9p, pre LOST).
With 18-49, several programs made it into the top 50, including White Collar, 19 and Counting and Dirty Jobs. But only the Teen Mom special was ranked high (#4) (that ran from 10p-11:30p).
iCarly is just taking over isn’t it. The Yellow Porous One better watch out!
The SNL bit about Burn Notice was hilarious, Funny enough it might be number 11 this week, but I didn’t watch 1-10.
has any1 else noticed the top 25 spots all belong to usa,nick and fnc weird
Wow 6 NCIS, 5 iCarly and 5 Spongebob
Wow the Monday NCIS before RAW is big.
I find iCarly quite funny, to be honest.
Lots of adults have always watched Spongebob, and now watch the Penguins of Madagascar. Where I used to work, many people had Spongebob screensavers-no, I don’t, but if I did, I would proudly admit it
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I still really feel that viewers across the spectrum often like these humorous, rather lovable, characters because-for a a little whil- you can just laugh and smile at something totally inane, and silly, and leave one’s own troubles behind, even for just a little while.
Long live King Julian!
So is Nickelodeon Programing new episodes on Saturday Morning. I hope so because it means saturday morning rises again.
Hey Robert, how is Southland’s first season doing on TNT? Do you think its ratings are going to be good enough for it to be picked up?
Eric, if you search on Southland on our site search (upper right) you can finds some of the ratings for the repeats of season one on TNT.
The first of the six episodes from season two is still a few weeks away.
I was never optimistic about the series getting picked up for additional new episodes, but as far as the ratings go, I think we need to wait to see how the six new, never-before-telecast episodes do.
So the so-called “kids’ network” has two of the three biggest Total Viewer draws on all cable. Interesting.
“I still really feel that viewers across the spectrum often like these humorous, rather lovable, characters because-for a little while- you can just laugh and smile at something totally inane, and silly, and leave one’s own troubles behind, even for just a little while.” – lainey
That’s pretty much it for me. I get enough drama from my daily life, why do I want to see it in my TV programming too?
WTF is “Fanboy & Chum Chum”?
Woo-hoo, Pawn Stars!!!!!!!!!!
Not surprised at anything.
Burn Notice has become such a predictable bore that I’ve stopped taping it and just let go of it. I just love Jeffrey Donovan and Bruce Campbell too, but I just got fed up with the constant shoot em up and blowing up cars and jumping off roofs — yawn. Humor: great. Same old mayhem: getting impossible to keep watching. I wonder if other people are feeling the same and that’s why it’s dipped? It may bounce back. People may not realize it’s back on yet.
@ Nadine. I got bored with Burn Notice about the middle of last season. But I’ve gotten bored with USA shows in general. They just all seem like carbon copies. A crime/detective show with a quirky character with some humor. The former head of programming for USA in an interview back a few months ago in EW basically admitted as such. But as long as viewers keep coming they’re happy.
When is wizards of waverly place return and how is rupauls drag race doing on either one of logo or vh1 ? …. I wanna know please
I kind of agree, Val, although I do keep watching for a while. I began to put off watching the tapes of “Burn Notice” last season. And when I finally did, I kept turning it off out of terrible boredom. Now I’ve finally said, enough. But I kept watching “Monk” to the bitter end and I have been enjoying “White Collar” this season. You do have to give the network the fact that their casting is really excellent.