Friday Cable Ratings: 'For Better or Worse' Premiere + 'Friday Night Smackdown', 'Common Law', 'Hardcore History', 'American Pickers' & More

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1. Steve-A

   Posted July 16, 2012 at 3:34 PM

   The war of the kids networks is getting old. Actually it’s been old from day one. And are either one actually ad-supported? So why do ratings matter anyway?

2. Columbo

   Posted July 16, 2012 at 3:39 PM

   Damn, what movie did FX show at 10 pm to get that kind of ratings?

   Those pathetic UFC fangirls made the Friday night excuse as to why The Ultimate Fighter was a failure in the ratings.

3. Jon23812

   Posted July 16, 2012 at 3:42 PM

   @Steve-A, What war? It’s only, Disney rocks that’s doing it, so it’s not really a way. Also Disney Channel may not be ad supported, but why would they spend money on a show if no one watched it?

4. Kaylie

   Posted July 16, 2012 at 4:05 PM

   Go Disney!!! But I dont understand why Disney would put ANT Farm’s new episode online before it airs knowing its expected to anchor their Friday night and that won’t bring in a good lead in. The decisions Disney Channel makes sometimes have me really wondering if they have a brain or not.

   But anyways the CW must envy that Disneys childrens skewed shows get higher ratings in repeats any time of the day than their originals. Its sad for the CW. {excluding Vampire Diaries.}

5. elliotness

   Posted July 16, 2012 at 4:09 PM

   AdultSwim>Disney and Nick put together Haha

6. Bunny

   Posted July 16, 2012 at 4:20 PM

   First victim from the war between Directv vs Viocom…..

   Nickelodeon ratings tumble from loss of carriage on DirecTV

   http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-nickratings-20120716,0,1495882.story

7. david

   Posted July 16, 2012 at 4:25 PM

   For Better or Worse did good in its return. I watched one of the episodes. It did good with the marathon leading up to the new episodes as well. I was hoping it would get a 1.0 but a .9 is good too. Now it will be paired with the last few episodes of House of Pain.

8. Alex

   Posted July 16, 2012 at 4:28 PM

   Is the CW basically just a tax write off for CBS and WB? They really could do better just referring to themselves as a kids network like TeenNick, especially given their shows, and especially since that’s one of the few networks I can see paying out to syndicate their shows

9. disney rocks

   Posted July 16, 2012 at 4:36 PM

   I’m sorry for getting out of hand, I think that, even though I do think Disney is a better network than Nick, that we need to stop this argument and acknowledge that both Disney and Nick have good-rated shows.

10. iggy.

    Posted July 16, 2012 at 5:08 PM

    There’s nothing on a Friday night at 5am except Sportcenter and King of the Hill.

    Damn, what movie did FX show at 10 pm to get that kind of ratings?

    Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs

11. RHONJd

    Posted July 16, 2012 at 6:30 PM

    Good News for ANT Farm: It’s two August episodes (10th & 24th) will have My Babysitters a Vampire as a lead in.

12. Hillbilly

    Posted July 16, 2012 at 8:11 PM

    Watch XII 9pm EST on Reelz. Common Law falling like a rock on its own (no lead in or lead out) will be cancelled/not renewed for 2012 (Fall) or for 2013.

13. Nick

    Posted July 16, 2012 at 8:13 PM

    Does anybody have the ratings for Thirteen at 9 pm on ReelzChannel? Thanks in advance.

14. hi

    Posted July 16, 2012 at 8:48 PM

    lol viacom shouldn’t have been so stupid to take their channels off.

    and why is my ip banned… i have to change ips to post now and its getting annoying…

15. juan

    Posted July 16, 2012 at 9:13 PM

    I really hate that Common Law is all there by themselves, I would have put something with it or at least move it, how about pairing Political animals and this, they might not be too similar but at least they would be fending by themselves in sunday and friday. Also good for disney

16. melvin

    Posted July 16, 2012 at 9:41 PM

    @Nathan (NR2012) @RHONJd
    big time rush
    Monday, July 2, 2012: 1.7 HH, 2.831 million viewers
    Tuesday, July 3, 2012: 1.5 HH, 2.280 million viewers
    Wednesday, July 4, 2012: 1.1 HH, 1.576 million viewers
    Thursday, July 5, 2012: 1.5 HH, 2.568 million viewers
    Friday, July 6, 2012 (repeat): 1.2 HH, 2.033 million viewers

17. CM

    Posted July 17, 2012 at 2:27 AM

    Great numbers for Disney! Did anyone else notice that a midnight replay of ANT Farm had almost 2.4 million viewers? That’s insane!

18. Melvin

    Posted July 17, 2012 at 2:30 AM

    Lab rats should just move to Disney channel, it will make more views and it deserves more for Disney channel that Disney xd

19. Jon23812

    Posted July 17, 2012 at 3:05 AM

    Disney wants to keep Disney Channel for girls and Disney XD for boys which is dumb. There’s like 15 shows, they can put them on one channel and make Disney XD, Toon Disney again.

20. Kaylie

    Posted July 17, 2012 at 4:47 AM

    @Jon23812. There’s no where to put them unless you’re insisting putting them on weekday schedules which may work.

    @RHONjd. ANT Farm is leading in MBAV. They need a Shake it Up lead in.

    I would like to see a network similar to Boomerang where they air old Disney shows and classic cartoons.