
The Walking Dead was Sunday's top cable show with a 5.4 adults 18-49 rating, up from from last week's 4.9. The Soul Train Awards were the number two cable program with a 1.6 adults 18-49 rating.
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Selected Sunday cable ratings: (all Live+Same Day ratings):
| Show | Net | Time | Viewers (000) (Live + SD) | Adult 18-49 Rating (Live + SD) |
| Walking Dead | AMC | 9:00 PM | 10427 | 5.4 |
| Walking Dead | AMC | 10:01 PM | 3202 | 1.6 |
| SOUL TRAIN AWARDS | BET | 8:00 PM | 3398 | 1.4 |
| REAL HOUSEWIVES ATLANTA | BRVO | 9:00 PM | 2251 | 1.2 |
| APOLLO LIVE | BET | 10:30 PM | 2820 | 1.2 |
| HOME ALONE | FAM | 6:00 PM | 3262 | 1.1 |
| TALKING DEAD | AMC | 11:00 PM | 1985 | 1.1 |
| LIZ & DICK | LIF | 9:00 PM | 3502 | 1.0 |
| Dexter S7 | SHO1 | 9:00 PM | 2124 | 1.0 |
| Family Guy | ADSM | 11:30 PM | 2313 | 1.0 |
| Walking Dead | AMC | 8:00 PM | 2230 | 1.0 |
| Sister Wives | TLC | 9:00 PM | 2295 | 0.9 |
| Family Guy | ADSM | 11:00 PM | 2121 | 0.9 |
| NFL COUNTDOWN L | ESPN | 10:00 AM | 1958 | 0.9 |
| Homeland S2 | SHO1 | 10:00 PM | 2015 | 0.8 |
| Boardwalk Empire | HBOM | 9:03 PM | 2297 | 0.8 |
| Robot Chicken | ADSM | 12:00 AM | 1734 | 0.7 |
| EXTREME COUGAR WIVES | TLC | 10:00 PM | 1672 | 0.7 |
| TBS PRIME MOVIE | TBSC | 6:00 PM | 2055 | 0.7 |
| ABC FAMILY ORIGINAL MOVIE | FAM | 8:00 PM | 2616 | 0.7 |
| NCIS | USA | 8:00 PM | 3642 | 0.7 |
| SpongeBob | NICK | 10:00 AM | 3052 | 0.7 |
| FX MOVIE PRIME | FX | 6:00 PM | 1516 | 0.7 |
| SpongeBob | NICK | 10:30 AM | 3066 | 0.7 |
| SpongeBob | NICK | 12:30 PM | 3215 | 0.7 |
| NEXT IRON CHEF | FOOD | 9:00 PM | 1854 | 0.7 |
| Pawn Stars | HIST | 10:31 PM | 2172 | 0.7 |
| Cleveland Show, THE | ADSM | 10:30 PM | 1576 | 0.6 |
| FX MOVIE PRIME | FX | 10:00 PM | 1457 | 0.6 |
| FX MOVIE PRIME | FX | 8:00 PM | 1511 | 0.6 |
| BITE SIZE ADV. OF SAM | DSNY | 8:55 AM | 2187 | 0.6 |
| Pawn Stars | HIST | 8:30 PM | 2483 | 0.6 |
| S PHINEAS & FERB | DSNY | 9:00 AM | 2289 | 0.6 |
| NCIS | USA | 7:00 PM | 3048 | 0.6 |
| Sister Wives | TLC | 11:00 PM | 1279 | 0.6 |
| FRIENDS | NAN | 12:06 AM | 1265 | 0.6 |
| NCIS | USA | 10:00 PM | 2334 | 0.6 |
| WIZARD OF OZ, THE | TBSC | 3:45 PM | 1799 | 0.6 |
| MOESHA | BET | 11:30 PM | 1282 | 0.6 |
| FRIENDS | NAN | 11:33 PM | 1243 | 0.6 |
| LAW & ORDER | TNT | 11:00 AM | 1729 | 0.6 |
| FRIENDS | NAN | 11:00 PM | 1296 | 0.6 |
| NCIS | USA | 9:00 PM | 2728 | 0.6 |
| Walking Dead | AMC | 12:00 AM | 1077 | 0.6 |
| COMIC BOOK MEN | AMC | 11:30 PM | 963 | 0.6 |
| SpongeBob | NICK | 9:30 AM | 2464 | 0.5 |
| SPORTSCENTER WEEKEND-AM L | ESPN | 9:00 AM | 1218 | 0.5 |
| NCIS | USA | 6:00 PM | 2541 | 0.5 |
| FRED CLAUS | TBSC | 11:30 AM | 1244 | 0.5 |
| NCIS | USA | 5:00 PM | 2609 | 0.5 |
| INTERSTITIAL BREAK | SHO1 | 9:57 PM | 1200 | 0.5 |
| SUNDAY MOVIE III | LIF | 11:03 PM | 1350 | 0.5 |
| SUNDAY MOVIE | FAM | 4:00 PM | 1526 | 0.5 |
| Chopped | FOOD | 10:00 PM | 1647 | 0.5 |
| SPORTSCENTER 1AM L | ESPN | 12:30 AM | 872 | 0.5 |
| FINDING BIGFOOT | APL | 10:00 PM | 1258 | 0.5 |
| Pawn Stars | HIST | 10:00 PM | 2023 | 0.5 |
| HALL ORIGINAL MOVIE | HALL | 8:00 PM | 2862 | 0.5 |
| Sister Wives | TLC | 8:00 PM | 1313 | 0.5 |
| NCIS | USA | 4:00 PM | 2125 | 0.5 |
| LAW & ORDER | TNT | 10:00 AM | 1568 | 0.5 |
| SUNDAY MOVIE II | LIF | 7:00 PM | 1964 | 0.5 |
| Pawn Stars | HIST | 7:30 PM | 1899 | 0.5 |
| MADAGASCAR | TBSC | 2:00 PM | 1297 | 0.5 |
| PAWN STARS | HIST | 8:00 PM | 2248 | 0.5 |
| HALLMARK MOVIE | HALL | 4:00 PM | 2004 | 0.5 |
| REAL HOUSEWIVES ATLANTA | BRVO | 11:31 PM | 1093 | 0.5 |
| REAL HOUSEWIVES ATLANTA | BRVO | 8:00 PM | 956 | 0.5 |
| Storage Wars | AEN | 11:01 PM | 1189 | 0.5 |
| TNT SUNDAY MOVIES | TNT | 12:00 PM | 1218 | 0.4 |
| TNT SUNDAY MOVIES | TNT | 5:00 PM | 1429 | 0.4 |
| Storage Wars | AEN | 8:00 PM | 1495 | 0.4 |
| Storage Wars | AEN | 10:00 PM | 1355 | 0.4 |
| SUNDAY MOVIE | LIF | 3:00 PM | 1423 | 0.4 |
| Storage Wars | AEN | 10:30 PM | 1264 | 0.4 |
| PAWN STARS | HIST | 9:00 PM | 2031 | 0.4 |
| STORAGE WARS | AEN | 8:30 PM | 1455 | 0.4 |
| STORAGE WARS TEXAS | AEN | 6:30 PM | 1524 | 0.4 |
| Lizard Lick Towing | TRU | 5:30 PM | 1030 | 0.4 |
| EXTREME HOMES (2012) | HGTV | 8:00 PM | 1148 | 0.4 |
| NCIS | USA | 2:00 PM | 1753 | 0.4 |
| STORAGE WARS | AEN | 11:31 PM | 1124 | 0.4 |
| LAW & ORDER | TNT | 9:00 AM | 1384 | 0.4 |
| LAW & ORDER | TNT | 8:00 AM | 1523 | 0.4 |
| NCIS | USA | 12:00 PM | 1670 | 0.4 |
| PAWN STARS | HIST | 9:30 PM | 1976 | 0.4 |
| PROPERTY BROTHERS (1 HR) | HGTV | 11:00 AM | 1119 | 0.4 |
| LAW & ORDER | TNT | 7:00 AM | 1428 | 0.4 |
| NCIS | USA | 3:00 PM | 1810 | 0.4 |
| LOVE IT OR LIST IT | HGTV | 12:00 PM | 1156 | 0.4 |
| TNT BIG PICTURE MOVIES | TNT | 8:00 PM | 1135 | 0.4 |
| INCOME PROPERTY | HGTV | 1:30 PM | 1206 | 0.4 |
| STORAGE WARS | AEN | 7:30 PM | 1431 | 0.4 |
| LAW & ORDER | TNT | 6:00 AM | 1365 | 0.4 |
| STORAGE WARS | AEN | 7:00 PM | 1461 | 0.4 |
| INCOME PROPERTY | HGTV | 1:00 PM | 1144 | 0.4 |
| NCIS | USA | 11:00 AM | 1446 | 0.4 |
| INCOME PROPERTY | HGTV | 2:30 PM | 1180 | 0.3 |
| NCIS | USA | 1:00 PM | 1519 | 0.3 |
| BREAK | HBOM | 9:51 PM | 1109 | 0.3 |
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@Nick
Do you have the re-run ratings for iCarly: iGoodbye?
@Nick
Thanks ever so much, Nick!!! I appreciate it a lot!!!
@Nick Thanks for all of the ratings. You are so helpful.
To clarify my question right: Do you have the re-run ratings from Saturday and/or Sunday Night (if one or both nights aired) for iCarly: iGoodbye? Please post them if possible.
Again, thank you very much for all of this hard work.
Stop saying marvin marvin should go to Disney, Disney is great and I don’t care what you all say, and marvin marvin is rubbish as usual from nickelodeon have you notice the only shows which make it is victorious and icarly which are a dannschnieder production, so if you didn’t have him the only show which would make it in nick is animation shows.
I agree marvin marvin is too crap for Disney channel, it suites nickelodeon but if a show had to come to Disney I would say that bucket and skinner should have been on Disney xd
Nickelodeon is going to seriously regret cancelling “How To Rock”. Also, the reason the How to Rock ratings have been down…is because of the cancellation. Nickelodeon has been putting it in the death slots at 9:30 pm most of the time. And when not 9:30…They have been putting it a 9. So that’s why the average has dropped to 2.4.
Top shows on tv right now:
1. Walking Dead
2. Big Bang Theory
3. Downton Abbey
4. Dexter
5. Copper
6. Homeland
7. The Middle
8. Person Of Intrest
9. Comic Book Men
10. GH
That is all over the entertainment map, and no reality crap. But TWD is head and shoulders about everything else.
Sunday’s mid-season finale is going to HUGE!
Also, I can’t believe we haven’t seen a wave of cheap zombie-centric ripoffs by the networks. Perhaps that’s coming next fall..
@Anonymous: iCarly: iGoodbye pulled in 3.143 million viewers (0.54 A18-49) at 7 PM on Saturday and 2.559 million viewers (0.43 A18-49) at 5 PM on Sunday.
Cory – Dexter is not the first show on Showtime to break out and do well,Queer as Folk did the same thing
The Walking Dead’s premise is be wary of the zombies, be afraid of humans.
They could have just as easily made it about surviving after a nuclear holocaust with the same effect, or after power goes out in the entire world. I read somewhere that Kripke almost made Revolution about zombies until they came up with the power idea.
@DW
“coming next spring. Dancing With The zombies”
No need. Dancing with the “Stars” is close enough.
Home Alone 1 did really good for a movie that is twenty years old. The new Home Alone at 8 was really funny and did pretty good. I was thinking it would do a little bit better though. Victorious did good on Saturday night. Thanks Nick as allways for the additional ratings.
Walking Dead needs a bigger budget for next season.
The 45 minute (average) format is not enough and the producers of these popular shows should consider a longer episode (1 hour?). Just a suggestion, because many of us plan our week around watching theses shows. Or else just go the whole hog and make a telemovie at the end of each season.