The Walking Dead topped cable viewership for the week with 11.014 million viewers. Pawn Stars was the second most-viewed original program with 5.013 million viewers.
| Rank | Shows | Net | Day | Time | Viewers Live+SD (000) |
| 1 | Walking Dead | AMC | Sun | 09:00P-10:01P | 11014 |
| 2 | Pawn Stars | HIST | Mon | 10:31P-11:02P | 5013 |
| 3 | Pawn Stars | HIST | Mon | 10:00P-10:31P | 4855 |
| 4 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 08:00P-09:00P | 4818 |
| 5 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 4674 |
| 6 | WWE Entertainment | USA | Mon | 10:00P-11:04P | 4493 |
| 7 | Gold Rush | DISC | Fri | 08:00P-10:02P | 4464 |
| 8 | American Pickers | HIST | Mon | 09:00P-10:00P | 4387 |
| 9 | Big Bang Theory, THE | TBSC | Tue | 09:30P-10:00P | 4324 |
| 10 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 10:30A-11:00A | 4162 |
| 11 | Swamp People | HIST | Thu | 09:00P-10:00P | 4092 |
| 12 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 10:00A-10:30A | 4061 |
| 13 | AUSTIN & ALLY | DSNY | Sun | 08:30P-09:00P | 4029 |
| 14 | Big Bang Theory, THE | TBSC | Tue | 09:00P-09:30P | 3898 |
| 15 | LRC 13 ACADEMY AWARDS PT2 | EN | Sun | 07:30P-08:30P | 3767 |
| 16 | COLLEGE BKBL REG SSN L | ESPN | Tue | 07:00P-09:25P | 3733 |
| 17 | LRC 13 ACADEMY AWARDS PT1 | EN | Sun | 05:30P-07:30P | 3725 |
| 18 | Shake It Up | DSNY | Sun | 09:00P-09:30P | 3725 |
| 19 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sat | 09:30A-10:00A | 3712 |
| 20 | DRAKE & JOSH | NICK | Tue | 07:00P-07:30P | 3696 |
| 21 | Big Bang Theory, THE | TBSC | Sat | 10:00P-10:30P | 3590 |
| 22 | TALKING DEAD | AMC | Sun | 10:01P-11:00P | 3495 |
| 23 | SpongeBob | NICK | Sun | 10:30A-11:00A | 3448 |
| 24 | OVER THE HEDGE MOVIE | NICK | Mon | 07:00P-08:00P | 3416 |
| 25 | Big Bang Theory, THE | TBSC | Sat | 10:30P-11:00P | 3407 |
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Walking Dead did better than expected even with the Oscars. Austin and Ally still did well.
#20 is incorrect. It was a SpongeBob episode that played in that time slot, not Drake and Josh.
The Oscars didn’t hurt Austin & Ally as much as I thought it would.
Nickelodeon is losing a ton of traction because they don’t have a Dan Schnieder show on now. They need their ringer.
nickelodeon is so lucky to have a show like spongebob
i just don’t get how spongebob episodes repeatedly get 3 to 4 million views on repeats of episodes that premiered all the way back in 1999
The Walking Dead ratings are unbelievable, NBC doesn’t even have a show that can past that, ABC only has DWTS and Fox only has Idol that can outrank that.
Well disneynick101, you aren’t the only one that doesn’t “get it”. Even the creator(s)/animators are a bit puzzled but quite happy about the success of this show. Not one person who works on this show that started with it thought it would last one (1), two (2) (three (3) tops) seasons and now they are enterind their MID-2nd DECADE! Who’d a thought?
The allure of SpongeBob SquarePants is similar, yet strikingly different to other successful animated shows like Family Guy & The Simpsons; young and early and pre-teen children love it because it is a “cartoon”, yet at least a third (1/3) of their viewing audience are adults thanks to having quality writers/animators for the show. Many of the so-called “jokes” or humorous situations in the show have mature overtones that adults enjoy but seem to “go over childrens heads”, so to speak…not something you can say about those other two shows I mentioned.
As long as they can keep the quality of the show as high as they have, SpongeBob SquarePants should be on the TV as long (perhaps longer) than those other animated shows that are basically “for adults only”.
Make sense?
Spongebob MUST be destroyed at all cost.
The walking dead! Really? Has to be the dumbest and least scary piles of low budget crap on TV.
Always has to be one, doesn’t there. “GoodTV”, huh… As far as what’s on TV now, with Fringe gone and Breaking Bad not yet returned, TWD is by far the most watchable thing around.
And to think NBC passed on this show….LOL!
It may have saved their sinking ship.