Friday Night Smackdown! was down a tenth of a point to a 0.9 adults 18-49 rating, and that tied with SpongeBob Squarepants for the cable ratings lead on Friday.
In cable premieres on Friday:
- TBS' Tyler Perry's House of Payne drew a 0.4 and 0.5 adults 18-49 rating in its two half hours.
- Starz's Boss had 659,000 viewers at 1opm. Will add demo ratings when I see them.
Syfy's Sanctuary was up a tenth from last week to a 0.5 adults 18-49 rating at 10pm.
Star Wars: The Clone Wars (a repeat) drew a 0.2 adults 18-49 rating and 940,000 average viewers, thanks to @TVBill for the info.
We only receive the top 100 cable shows for adults 25-54 for the whole day from our primary source. If you don’t see an original episode of a show here, it’s because it wasn’t in the top 100. I attempt to filter out repeats, kids shows, and most non-primetime shows. Will add extras that I see later.
Selected Friday cable ratings (all Live+Same Day ratings):
| Show | Net | Time | Viewership (million, Live+SD) | Adults 18-49 rating (Live+SD) |
| WWE FRI NIGHT Smackdown | SYFY | 8:00 PM | 3.112 | 0.9 |
| SpongeBob | NICK | 8:00 PM | 3.905 | 0.9 |
| Robot Chicken | ADSM | 12:00 AM | 1.952 | 0.8 |
| American Restoration | HIST | 9:00 PM | 2.515 | 0.8 |
| American Restoration | HIST | 9:30 PM | 2.551 | 0.7 |
| COLLEGE FOOTBALL | ESPN | 8:00 PM | 2.210 | 0.7 |
| Robot Chicken | ADSM | 12:15 AM | 1.746 | 0.7 |
| KUNG FU PANDA | NICK | 8:30 PM | 3.255 | 0.7 |
| VERY FUNNY NEWS | TBSC | 10:00 PM | 1.672 | 0.7 |
| Phineas and Ferb | DSNY | 8:30 PM | 3.342 | 0.7 |
| AQUA TEEN HUNGERFORCE | ADSM | 12:30 AM | 1.510 | 0.7 |
| JESSIE | DSNY | 9:00 PM | 4.026 | 0.6 |
| Wizards of Waverly Place | DSNY | 8:00 PM | 3.417 | 0.6 |
| SQUIDBILLIES | ADSM | 12:45 AM | 1.373 | 0.6 |
| DINERS, DRIVE INS & DIVES | FOOD | 10:30 PM | 1.525 | 0.5 |
| HAIRY BIKERS | HIST | 10:00 PM | 1.607 | 0.5 |
| Say Yes to the Dress: RAN | TLC | 10:00 PM | 1.293 | 0.5 |
| Say Yes to the Dress: RAN | TLC | 10:30 PM | 1.236 | 0.5 |
| DINERS, DRIVE INS & DIVES | FOOD | 10:00 PM | 1.570 | 0.5 |
| SANCTUARY | SYFY | 10:00 PM | 1.466 | 0.5 |
| SO RANDOM | DSNY | 9:30 PM | 3.245 | 0.5 |
| HOUSE OF PAYNE | TBSC | 9:30 PM | 1.289 | 0.5 |
| HAIRY BIKERS | HIST | 10:30 PM | 1.212 | 0.5 |
| COLLEGE FOOTBALL | ESPN2 | 8:00 PM | 1.472 | 0.4 |
| Fish Hooks | DSNY | 8:45 PM | 2.737 | 0.4 |
| GHOST ADVENTURES | TRAV | 9:00 PM | 0.879 | 0.4 |
| PARDON THE INTERRUPTION | ESPN | 5:30 PM | 0.788 | 0.4 |
| SMALL POTATOES | DSNY | 9:25 AM | 1.462 | 0.4 |
| The Soup | ENT | 10:00 PM | 0.806 | 0.4 |
| Gold Rush: Alaska | DISC | 10:00 PM | 1.127 | 0.4 |
| NFL LIVE | ESPN2 | 11:16 PM | 0.877 | 0.4 |
| JUST GO WITH IT | STZP | 8:03 PM | 0.904 | 0.4 |
| CRAVE | FOOD | 11:30 PM | 1.099 | 0.4 |
| HOUSE OF PAYNE | TBSC | 9:00 PM | 1.103 | 0.4 |
| A.N.T. FARM | DSNY | 7:00 PM | 2.653 | 0.4 |
| Real Time with Bill Maher | HBOM | 10:00 PM | 1.260 | 0.4 |
| Fashion Police Weekly | ENT | 10:30 PM | 0.779 | 0.3 |
| GANGLAND | SPIKE | 10:29 PM | 0.681 | 0.3 |
| HOUSE HUNTERS INTL | HGTV | 8:30 PM | 1.127 | 0.3 |
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To see past daily cable ratings posts click here.
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Nielsen TV Ratings: ©2011 The Nielsen Company. All Rights Reserved.
Go Sanctuary.
In yo face naysayers. 
Jessie’s doing sooo good!
Why aren’t the cable news program included? Bill Maher, with his lousy .03 18-49 ratings, is listed.
SW: clone wars was a rerun if it matters.
Smackdown seems to be unstable at this point. It’s up, it’s down and there seems to be no rhyme or reason
Yeah Clone Wars was a re-run and it was the third part in a trilogy too weird to play that episode. Can’t wait for next weeks episode it’s the start of a 4 part story arc.
Great that Sanctuary went up a notch. I think this season is really good so far. Having fewer episodes seems to have increased the quality.
Go Jessie!!!!! Really happy. Also happy Phineas and Ferb took out Kung Fu Panda and Wizards didnt pull down too much from Spongebob. Even though Nick topped, Disney still won.
“Why aren’t the cable news program included? Bill Maher, with his lousy .03 18-49 ratings, is listed.”
Because they have their own separate post.
http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/10/24/cable-news-ratings-for-friday-october-21-2011/108156/
“SW: clone wars was a rerun if it matters.”
Thanks, added the ratings that came from @TVBill nevertheless.
Good to see Sanctuary back up. There was a major game changer introduced, as Dr. Magnus came back from a 113 year “hiatus” (co-existent with her original self as a result of her one way time traveling back to Victorian England) with a plan to cut the Sanctuary Network off from any government or UN support. This probably means major story arc developments over the rest of the season. This could be really cool depending on how they handle it.
Not to mention Henry’s lycanthrope girl friend is pregnant with his kid!
I don’t expect Sanctuary to go above 0.5. I think that’s it for it, steady but no higher. Haven did the same in the time slot.
So far, Sanctuary is actually growing its ratings from last year.
do anyone know what Lingerie FootBall ratings are?
People really watch bill the liberal loony toon maher?? That guys a retard. I bet he doesn’t want people to know that he was in the move house 2 and amazon women in the avacado jungle of death either! Stupid liberal
IMHO
liberal loony toon, guys a retard, Stupid liberal
More intelligent, insightful & pithy comments from the sock puppet right-wing wannabes.
YMMV
Save Murdoch Mysteries ~ Contact Citytv/Rogers
mark mentioned: “amazon [s/b cannibal] women in the avacado jungle of death”
That was one of my favorite Adrienne Barbeau movies. Liberated cannibal women in the avocado jungle (in southern California) split over how to eat men (with clam dip or guacamole). When the women sat Maher in the cauldron, he blew an audible bubbly one in the water.
It’s amazing how people still watch Spongebob when it hasn’t been funny since 2004. No, just because a show gets great ratings doesn’t mean that it’s high quality (although Spongebob pre-2004 was classic TV much like the early years of The Simpsons).
Now in my ideal world, Disney Channel would be a family channel filled with various programs. You would have Playhouse Disney at 5am, classics like That’s So Raven, Lizzie McGuire, Even Stevens, and Phil of the Future in the early afternoon, and family-friendly 90s sitcoms that formerly aired on ABC in the late afternoon. From 7-8, you would have alternating reruns of current and past Disney sitcoms. 8-10 would consist of movies from Mon-Thu and original sitcoms on the weekend. 10pm would start the bridge to slightly more “adult” syndicated comedies, starting with Wipeout. At 11, you would have The Middle and Malcolm In The Middle. At midnight, you would have Modern Family and George Lopez. A fan favorite Disney film would follow from 1-3am. 3am would start the segway into more child-oriented programming like Lilo & Stitch, Pooh, Phineas, Fish Hooks. Then Playhouse Disney at 5…
Of course, this is never going to happen because Disney will always suck as long as they focus on six-year olds and keep making crappy shows like Jessie and Wizards. But I can dream back to 2006 when they actually had quality FAMILY programming that included syndicated former ABC sitcoms and original shows that weren’t insanely stupid and cliche.
Boss (Starz)
-10 PM: 0.659 million viewers, 0.21 A18-49, 0.14 A18-34
-11 PM: 0.398 million viewers, 0.14 A18-49, 0.10 A18-34
Strike Back (Cinemax)
-10 PM: 0.249 million viewers, 0.09 A18-49, 0.10 A18-34
-12 AM: 0.167 million viewers, 0.05 A18-49, 0.05 A18-34
X-Men (G4, 11 PM)
-0.099 million viewers
-0.05 A18-49
-0.04 A18-34
Viper’s Creed (G4, 11:30 PM)
-0.042 million viewers
-0.02 A18-49
-0.03 A18-34
Lingerie Football League (MTV2, 10 PM)
-0.189 million viewers
-0.09 A18-49
-0.08 A18-34
Boss was great but I seen it a week ago in their free previews.