Comedy Central dominated cable in time-shifted viewership (live+7) differential from Mar 30-Apr 5, notching the top spot with “South Park” (939K), plus 3rd, 4th and 8th with a trio of “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart” eps that averaged 650K. VH1’s “Rock of Love” (718K) took 2nd, E!’s “The Soup” (656K) 5th and TNT’s “Saving Grace” (645K) 6th. Filling the top 10 dance card were FX’s “Damages” (606K) in 7th, E!’s “Keeping Up with the Kardashians” (566K) in 9th, and Sci Fi’s “Ghost Hunters” (556K) in 10th.

(Data compiled by Nielsen) 

03/30/2009-04/05/2009
TOTAL-03/30/2009
RANK TELECASTS EPISODE TITLE ORIG DAY(S) S TIME R DUR P2+ P2+ P2+ P2+ Absolute Diff
Live US AA% Live+7 US AA% Live AA(000) Live+7 AA(000)
1 SOUTH PARK-04/01/2009 SOUTH PARK 1304 CMDY ..W…. 10:00 PM 30 0.9 1.2 2677 3616 939
2 ROCK OF LOVE 3-04/05/2009 311 VH1 ……S 11:30 AM 60 0.3 0.6 892 1610 718
3 DAILY SHOW-03/31/2009 MAR 31,09 CMDY .T….. 10:59 PM 31 0.5 0.8 1548 2227 679
4 DAILY SHOW-03/30/2009 MAR 30,09 CMDY M…… 10:59 PM 31 0.6 0.8 1648 2325 677
5 THE SOUP-04/03/2009 613 ENT ….F.. 10:00 PM 30 0.3 0.5 736 1392 656
6 SAVING GRACE-03/30/2009 213 BUT THERES CLAY TNT M…… 10:00 PM 60 0.6 0.9 1829 2474 645
7 DAMAGES-04/01/2009 S2 SEASON FINALE FX ..W…. 10:00 PM 92 0.3 0.5 885 1491 606
8 DAILY SHOW-04/02/2009 APR 2, 09 CMDY …T… 10:59 PM 31 0.5 0.7 1504 2097 593
9 KEEPING UP KARDASHIANS-04/05/2009 305 ENT ……S 10:00 PM 30 0.3 0.5 971 1537 566
10 GHOST HUNTERS-04/01/2009 504H CLUB DEAD SCIFI ..W…. 9:00 PM 61 0.9 1.1 2519 3075 556

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