Thursday Cable Ratings: NBA Basketball Wins Night + 'Buckwild', 'Suits', 'Oprah's Next Chapter', 'Archer' & More

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1. Jared

   Posted January 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM

   Im not a hater but considering those mediocre numbers for Anger Management leaves it not much room to fall. I’ll predict it will drop below a million viewers just like it was pulling towards the end of its Summer run. Do people even wanna watch 90 more episodes??

2. Petar Ivanov

   Posted January 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM

   @Fed who said:
   @Petar, such a good taste in dramas, and such poor taste in comedies.

   Thanks for first part and thanks for second part. I respect your opinion. Really like and watch TBBT&2BG and really hate greedy drug charlie sheen.

3. JoshuaCanada

   Posted January 18, 2013 at 2:11 PM

   Any numbers for Legit or Totally biased?

4. Cody

   Posted January 18, 2013 at 2:20 PM

   Series clinching game of the Stanley Cup Finals got a 2.0 in the 18-49 demo. A regular season Heat-Lakers game at 10:30 got a 1.7.

5. Shepherd

   Posted January 18, 2013 at 2:21 PM

   those are good numbers for Archer, but with dvd’s, net-flicks, quality etc, I still expected higher. That’s all i said.

6. msupdate

   Posted January 18, 2013 at 2:23 PM

   Wow. Buckwild did well. It did much better than I expected it would this week, almost completely rebounding to its premiere numbers.

7. Ike

   Posted January 18, 2013 at 2:24 PM

   I’m surprised and impressed to see Archer get a 1.0. Its numbers used to be a lot lower, didn’t they? Comedies like Archer and Always Sunny clearly benefit from word of mouth as the years pass. Archer doesn’t always do it for me, but I love H. Jon Benjamin’s voice work.

   Anger Management clearly repeats well, so that probably makes it worthwhile for FX even though its ratings for originals aren’t anything special. I don’t like it but it’ll make money. However it doesn’t really fit in on FX — it’s more trashy and lowbrow than a show like Archer which might have loads of dirty jokes but still seems sort of classy in its own peculiar way.

   There are reports that Fox/News Corp wants to split FX into a comedy channel and a drama channel. The comedy channel would be FXX, taking the former Fox Soccer slot on cable systems, and FX’s comedies would supposedly move there. The dramas would stay on FX. I think this is the wrong way to split the channel up. It should be FX and FX-Trashy. Anger Management and the UFC stuff and reruns of “The Day After Tomorrow” and Bruckheimer movies would go to FX-Trashy. Everything else would stay on FX!

8. Amy

   Posted January 18, 2013 at 2:35 PM

   @ Mike You shouldn’t have given up so quickly. Watch the end of S1 and the beginning of S2. S2 is better than S1, imo.

9. Lourdes T

   Posted January 18, 2013 at 2:44 PM

   @Shepherd

   “Haven episode was delayed due to some school shooting, but I doubt syfy will take this into consideration when evaluating these numbers, and no, I don’t believe syfy normally airs originals on Thursday. Despite already being renewed for 13 episodes, I still half expect a cancellation announcement to come any day now”

   I don’t think so.
   I think this is great news for Haven because last original episode had 0.4 and aired on a Friday night, a very slow night, and considering that the show was competing with original shows from the big networks last night, I would say Syfy WILL consider this.

10. David Howell

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 2:45 PM

    Even in syndication NCIS skews way old. The 8pm airing on USA was the most-viewed cable show of the night… and got a 0.7 in the demo.

11. Lourdes T

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 2:47 PM

    And great ratings for Haven despite the two episodes being available on line for a few weeks now.

12. Evan

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 3:07 PM

    Wow Archer did amazing, an 11 pm show and a comedy pulling a 1.0 and beating Anger Management. Anger Management is not doing well at all it pulled a .8 for its premiere and is considerably down from last year. FX really screwed themselves over renewing it for 90 more episodes. What are the odds that those numbers are gonna not decrease over the next 90 episodes? There’s no way FX can be happy.

    Shocked Suits didn’t get better ratings I guess the show benefitted from the Burn Notice lead in. USA REALLY promoted the show a lot so I was expecting at least a 1.5 but it still did pretty good. It might not have done as well because of the competition but we’ll see

13. AppleStinx

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 3:11 PM

    That’s Jamal Crawford in the picture. Did the Clippers game top Lakers vs Heat? Anyway, Lakers vs Heat was a good game – whoever lost, I was happy. Too bad two teams can’t both lose a game.

14. Mitchell

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 3:11 PM

    Suits is doing just fine in the ratings

15. Jill

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 3:21 PM

    Drake & Josh did very well

16. One

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 3:27 PM

    Basketball? BASKETBALL?!!! STUPID MOTHER F___ERS!!! STOP WATCHING MANKIND’S STUPIDEST SPORT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

17. MikeS

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 3:38 PM

    @One

    How is basketball stupid? It’s a fantastic sport and if you play everyday just for fun it will keep you in great shape.

18. MikeS

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 3:41 PM

    @AppleStinx

    The top rating IS for Heat-Lakers game. TVbythenumbers are lazy and just put up a basketball photo of any kind.

19. Nick

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 4:03 PM

    Why do people care about Anger Management’s ratings? It has 90 episodes lmao. FX did this deal not to see good first run ratings, but to have a show that they can fill their schedule with. The repeat numbers say it all.

20. Rich

    Posted January 18, 2013 at 4:14 PM

    Go,Archer! Top 10! Whoohoo!