Top Cable Shows (18-49) – Week of 03/15/10
By | March 23, 2010
Back-to-back eps of Discovery Channel’s “Life” led cable in viewership among 18-49s (Live+SD) during the week of Mar 15-21, delivering a 2.88mln demo avg to lead a contentious top 5. Consecutive hours of WWE wrestling on USA that averaged 2.67mln joined Comedy Central’s “South Park” (2.64mln) in completing the upper echelon. Next came History’s “American Pickers” (2.41mln) and FX’s new original “Justified” (2.04mln), then a Sun night “Harry Potter” film feature on ABC Family (1.87mln). 2 eps of “Family Guy” on Adult Swim that averaged 1.83mln 18-49s completed the top 10. (Data provided by Nielsen)
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| RANK | TELECASTS | EPISODE TITLE | ORIG | DAY(S) | S TIME | R DUR | P18-49 | P18-49 | P18-49 | |||
| Live+SD US AA% | Live+SD US SHR | Live+SD AA(000) | ||||||||||
| 1 | LIFE-03/21/2010 | CHALLENGES OF LIFE | DISC | ……S | 8:00 PM | 60 | 2.2 | 6 | 2841 | |||
| 2 | LIFE-03/21/2010 | REPTILES & AMPHIBIANS | DISC | ……S | 9:00 PM | 60 | 2.1 | 5 | 2763 | |||
| 3 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT-03/15/2010 | WWE RAW | USA | M…… | 9:00 PM | 60 | 2.1 | 6 | 2703 | |||
| 4 | SOUTH PARK-03/17/2010 | SOUTHPARK 1401 | CMDY | ..W…. | 10:00 PM | 30 | 2 | 6 | 2641 | |||
| 5 | WWE ENTERTAINMENT-03/15/2010 | WWE RAW | USA | M…… | 10:00 PM | 68 | 2 | 6 | 2635 | |||
| 6 | AMERICAN PICKERS-03/15/2010 | 5 ACRES OF JUNK | HIST | M…… | 9:00 PM | 60 | 1.8 | 5 | 2414 | |||
| 7 | JUSTIFIED-03/16/2010 | FIRE IN THE HOLE | FX | .T….. | 10:00 PM | 70 | 1.6 | 5 | 2041 | |||
| 8 | SUNDAY MOVIE-03/21/2010 | HARRY POTTER/PHOENIX | FAM | ……S | 8:00 PM | 180 | 1.4 | 4 | 1871 | |||
| 9 | FAMILY GUY-03/15/2010 | ADSM | M…… | 11:30 PM | 30 | 1.4 | 6 | 1842 | ||||
| 10 | FAMILY GUY-03/16/2010 | ADSM | .T….. | 11:30 PM | 30 | 1.4 | 5 | 1806 | ||||