The GOP debate on CNN last Thursday night won the week in cable ratings in the 18-49 demo for the week of 3/7-3/13, according to Nielsen, with 3.037 million average Live+SD viewers tuning in. For the rest of the top 10 programs, we saw the usual suspects. “WWE Raw”’s three showings on USA Network Monday night earned 1.637, 1.616 and 1.555 million average viewers Live+SD, and FX’s “People v. O.J.” pulled in 1.567 million. VH1’s “Love and Hip Hop” earned 1.554 million on Monday night, and three showings of “Family Guy” on Adult Swim rounded out the last three notches in the top 10, with about 1.3 million average viewers each. Check out the full chart below, from Nielsen.

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