Sunday Cable Ratings: 'True Blood' Wins Night, 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians', 'Falling Skies', 'Army Wives', 'The Newsroom', 'Drop Dead Diva', 'Longmire', 'Walking Dead Marathon' & More

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1. Richie

   Posted July 10, 2012 at 2:58 PM

   VH1 should have given Drita her own show, she has three times as many fans.
   Drita is also much younger and way better looking.

2. gary

   Posted July 10, 2012 at 3:07 PM

   Hope the glades stays steady, i think it is the most fun and entertaing show on Sunday night

3. bg

   Posted July 10, 2012 at 3:08 PM

   Thank you @ Nick and @ Robert for the MLS numbers…

   Great weekend for MLS…NBCSN just scored it’s highest rated telecast for MLS this season (for the whole match, the match-window tends to be higher)…

4. GARY

   Posted July 10, 2012 at 3:25 PM

   great for the newsroom amazing episode

5. Rodrigo

   Posted July 10, 2012 at 3:27 PM

   Episodes is such a good show. Hope it increases next week.

6. Max

   Posted July 10, 2012 at 3:51 PM

   @Richie

   It is a good thing you don’t work for production at VH1. LOL. A spin-off featuring any of the original Mob Wives would be horrendous. Drita wouldn’t do any better than Big Ang.

   Look at Jersey Shore. Great numbers when the show is on but the spin-off’s have been lackluster at best. Same idea here. Just because you have a group of people together, that doesn’t the audience is going to automatically tune in when you focus on one or two of them alone.

   Big Ang was never an original Mob Wife, so VH1 took a shot at trying to give her the spotlight. I read that if her show took off, she wouldn’t be featured much (if at all) in the next season of Mob Wives. They may need to rethink that strategy depending on her numbers in the coming weeks.

   And stop with trying to expand the damn franchise. This isn’t THE REAL HOUSEWIVES. You can make a show like that in every city of the country and get viewers but it just isn’t working for VH1.

7. deathroad

   Posted July 10, 2012 at 4:20 PM

   last night this guy went into this other guy house and than the guy kill this man with a gun if you don’t post this in 50 or more comments the same guy who kill the man will kill you the same way so be perpard you to max

8. silvit

   Posted July 10, 2012 at 7:11 PM

   @SAC

   TNT in the past canceled shows that had the lowest 18-49 demo, despite the 25-54 numbers and total viewers (Memphis Beat, Men of a Certain Age, Saved and others).

   On the other hand, they kept shows like Franklin and Bash which didn’t have great total viewers numbers, but performed well in the 18-49 and the 18-34 demo (for being on TNT)

   Shows like Falling Skies geared towards a younger demo rather than the 25-54 group. TNT has other similar shows in production. If they were so interested in the 25-54 crowd they wouldn’t produce them but will opt for less expensive shows.

9. silvit

   Posted July 10, 2012 at 7:12 PM

   The Great escape is a big flop for TNT.

10. JJ

    Posted July 10, 2012 at 7:14 PM

    Nickelodeon needs to realise The Fairly Odd Parents is one biggest ratings gamers they have. The TV Special Fairly Odd Baby got 8.8 million viewers. More of that and less sitcoms will get them ratings.

11. The End

    Posted July 10, 2012 at 7:47 PM

    What happened to my reply to Sofia and Julie? Technical error? Noticed replies vanishing on quite a few topics here, including the Falling Skies one?

12. LJ

    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:30 PM

    @Sophia

    True Blood costs about 35 million per season. Game of Thrones season 2 cost 70 million to produce. Both shows make HBO loads of money from DVD/BR sales,international rights fees, and HBO subscriptions. HBO has admitted they made a mistake in cancelling shows like Rome and Deadwood. They never took into account how much money they could make off of DVD sales at the time. FWIW, Rome’s second season cost 100+ million to produce.

13. LJ

    Posted July 10, 2012 at 9:37 PM

    Also, each episode of True Blood and Game of Thrones draws well over 10 million viewers per episode. There is no need to watch the initial airing on Sundays when it is available throughout the week on one of their channels and anytime on HBO GO. I would say Game of Thrones is one of, if not the most popular show in the world right now. Internationally speaking, it draws HBO’s highest ratings ever. And it is only behind the Sopranos and True Blood in the US.

14. chrisss

    Posted July 11, 2012 at 7:38 AM

    @ LJ

    I can’t see True Blood costing less than $3 million an episode.

15. Justin J. Poppiti, Esq.

    Posted July 11, 2012 at 2:52 PM

    Rome was a fantastic show.

16. Jon

    Posted July 11, 2012 at 8:13 PM

    TNT tend to cancel shows to make way for new ones, The Great Escape will likely be axed freeing up the 10pm slot and Dallas currently is the only show on Wednesdays so the 10pm will be free for a new show. I think Franklin and Bash will get another season, not sure on Leverage given that it’s been given a much earlier timeslot this year, I think TNT should renew it for a final season. Monday Mornings I reckon will air on Tuesdays while LA Noir will be Sundays or Wednesdays.

17. Brian

    Posted July 11, 2012 at 11:12 PM

    Too bad that Kardashian TRASH killed Drop Dead Diva ratings..nobody is watching when they saw she was gonna be in it..Lifetime Idiots!

18. John

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 12:31 PM

    Can anyone tell me what Break is? Never heard of it before.

19. irishking

    Posted July 12, 2012 at 12:59 PM

    Newsroom looks to be bleeding viewers off the tremendous ratings for Tru Blood for a good reason. The bump up in viewers is like saying you only need 15 stiches for the cut, not 16. As an independent voter, lost in the world of cable opinion news, this wsa supposed to be show about the middle, instead it is like watching an hour of the behind the scenes of the “Ed Show”,with as many unlikeable characters.