Friday Cable Ratings: 'Gold Rush' Wins Night, 'Bering Sea Gold', 'WWE Smackdown', 'Oprah's Next Chapter', 'Merlin' & More

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1. THE OLD MAN

   Posted January 22, 2013 at 3:20 PM

   Gold Rush again #1–WTG–that 1.8 beat most nets

2. Nathan

   Posted January 22, 2013 at 3:29 PM

   @Jamie
   Compared to last year, no.

3. poweranimals

   Posted January 22, 2013 at 3:40 PM

   Anyone have any idea how Fish Hooks did?

4. Aniin

   Posted January 22, 2013 at 3:52 PM

   Although that’s still really good for Oprah’s network, they should’ve just aired it as a 2 hour special. The two episodes probably would’ve done much better had they aired together.

5. John

   Posted January 22, 2013 at 3:59 PM

   Now that Dexter’s gone for a while, Merlin has become favorite show on TV. It has gotten truly compelling this season. Nice to see its ratings are holding steady even with a big Smackdown decline!

6. The Old Woman

   Posted January 22, 2013 at 4:31 PM

   Yeah, glad to see Merlin holding up. It’s doing almost as well as some of the Syfy originals. They must be pleased with it. The story sucks but it’s cheesy, light entertainment family fare for a Friday night.

7. Brandon

   Posted January 22, 2013 at 4:43 PM

   I wish more people watched warped reporters which airs at 11pm est on Fuse. Would love to see it make the top 100.

8. iCarly

   Posted January 22, 2013 at 5:01 PM

   No Kung Fu Panda , Go Nickelodeon!.
   Victorious & Marvin Marvin ratings please …!

9. coolioni

   Posted January 22, 2013 at 11:29 PM

   Merlin actually did better thn all of the scipted shows that were on LAst Monday which was the season premier for all 3 shows on SyFy. That is pretty bad that merlin topped all3 monday night shows.
   I am sure it has a little to do with the Friday 10 pm slot being the best timeslot for any scripted show on SyFy.
   It seems any show they put in that timeslot ends up doing very well compared to that same show playing on a different night IE: Sanactuary and Lost Girl !
   It just shows what a good lead in show can do for ratings for the entire night.
   I just dont understand why they would put Merlin in this spot being that its the final season for the show.
   Why not put another show on Friday night like any one of the monday shows instead ?

   If SyFy was smart the would definatly put Defiance in the 10pm Friday night timeslot being tha they will get the target audience aready here wwatching wrestling.
   This is the crowd that most likely will go out and buy the video game to go along with the new T.V. show.

   I am very curious to see how well or how poorly Defiance ends up doing ?

   Syfy seems to have placed all their eggs in this basket for this year.
   If the show fails I think heads may finally start rolling in the front office at Syfy!

10. John

    Posted January 23, 2013 at 5:37 AM

    Hi guys. No Banshee news this week?

11. panda22

    Posted January 23, 2013 at 8:46 AM

    Bering Sea Gold is doing pretty good i guess, Friday @ 10pm and all that.

12. davie

    Posted January 23, 2013 at 3:11 PM

    @coolioni

    Being Human definitely scored a 0.6 so Merlin didn’t quite beat it, but it is doing just as good as Alphas was on Mondays.

    Still, Alphas should’ve returned to maybe air on Fridays if not on “powerful Mondays”

13. davie

    Posted January 23, 2013 at 3:21 PM

    @coolioni

    my bad, you’re right =)

14. James

    Posted January 23, 2013 at 4:42 PM

    @Nick Have the rating of True Justice and Banshee?

15. david

    Posted January 23, 2013 at 10:03 PM

    Cool to see all 3 episodes of Super Natural on the list with a very similar viewership for all 3.