History's Pawn Stars edged out last Monday's episode of TNT's The Closer to lead as the week's most-watched show on cable.
Top 25 Basic cable shows for the week ending July 24, 2011:
| Rank | Program | Network | Day | Time | Viewers (000) |
| 1 | Pawn Stars | HIST | Mon | 10:00P-10:30P | 6,667 |
| 2 | CLOSER, THE | TNT | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 6,470 |
| 3 | Pawn Stars | HIST | Mon | 10:30P-11:00P | 6,394 |
| 4 | RIZZOLI & ISLES | TNT | Mon | 10:00P-11:00P | 6,392 |
| 5 | American Pickers | HIST | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,574 |
| 6 | Swamp People | HIST | Thu | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,518 |
| 7 | Burn Notice | USA | Thu | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,390 |
| 8 | True Blood | HBOM | Sun | 09:02P-09:58P | 5,261 |
| 9 | Storage Wars | A&E | Wed | 10:30P-11:00P | 5,089 |
| 10 | Royal Pains | USA | Wed | 09:00P-10:00P | 5,029 |
| 11 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:14P | 4,981 |
| 12 | Good Luck Charlie | DSNY | Sun | 08:30P-09:00P | 4,933 |
| 13 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 4,703 |
| 14 | Covert Affairs | USA | Tue | 10:00P-11:00P | 4,548 |
| 15 | Storage Wars | A&E | Wed | 10:00P-10:30P | 4,499 |
| 16 | SUITS | USA | Thu | 10:00P-11:00P | 4,376 |
| 17 | Necessary Roughness | USA | Wed | 10:00P-11:00P | 4,202 |
| 18 | Pawn Stars | HIST | Mon | 08:30P-09:00P | 4,201 |
| 19 | White Collar | USA | Tue | 09:00P-10:00P | 4,184 |
| 20 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 11:30A-12:00P | 4,140 |
| 21 | FALLING SKIES | TNT | Sun | 10:00P-11:00P | 4,068 |
| 22 | Shake It Up | DSNY | Sun | 08:00P-08:30P | 4,056 |
| 23 | NCIS | USA | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 4,037 |
| 24 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 10:00A-10:30A | 4,020 |
| 25 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 10:30A-11:00A | 4,011 |
-
There is a lot more information in the daily cable ratings.
We always post whatever specific show data we received directly and see via press release or other trade publications. You can subscribe to our RSS feed and we have created a special category (Overnight Cable TV Show Ratings), which we usually post late in the afternoon on the east coast (and Friday night data isn't posted until Monday).
-
Nielsen Ratings Data: ©2011 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved. All ratings above Live+SD (live viewing plus same day DVR viewing)
