Primetime Cable Ratings: May 1, 2014
The top five spots of Thursday night's cable ratings were consumed by TNT and History. TNT, once again, took spots #1 and #3 with it's continuing, never ending coverage of the first round of the NBA Playoffs. An average of 4.3 million viewer stayed with TNT over the course of the two games.History, with it's strong combination of PAWN STARS and VIKINGS, averaged just under 3.6 million viewers from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m.
The bottom half of the top 10 were reruns, dominated by three THE BIG BANG THEORY episodes, on TBS.
| Rank | Show | Net | Time | Viewers* | A18-49 |
| 1 | NBA Playoffs - RD1 | TNT | 10:45 PM | 4.49 | 2.0 |
| 2 | Pawn Stars | HIST | 9:30 PM | 3.94 | 1.1 |
| 3 | NBA Playoffs - RD1 | TNT | 8:00 PM | 3.84 | 1.6 |
| 4 | Pawn Stars | HIST | 9:00 PM | 3.48 | 0.9 |
| 5 | VIKINGS | HIST | 10:00 PM | 3.37 | 1.1 |
| 6 | The Big Bang Theory | TBS | 10:00 PM | 2.54 | 1.0 |
| 7 | The Big Bang Theory | TBS | 9:30 PM | 2.49 | 1.0 |
| 8 | Movie: Princess & The Frog | DSNY | 8:00 PM | 2.48 | 0.5 |
| 9 | The Big Bang Theory | TBS | 10:30 PM | 2.44 | 0.9 |
| 10 | American Dad | ADSM | 10:30 PM | 2.16 | 1.0 |
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