Top 100 Primetime Cable: November 9 - 15, 2015

News took the front stage in this week's cable ratings, with the Republican Debate, on Tuesday, and the Paris attacks, on Friday. Nine of the top 20 programs of the week are news programs on either FOX News, CNN or Fox business News.

The Republican Debate was the #1 program of the week, a first for FOX Business News, drawing 13.5 million viewers and a 2.4 rating in Adults 18-49. Compare that to Saturday's Democrat Debate, on CBS, and the Republicans out drew the Democrats by five million viewers and 41% in the A18-49 demo.

AMC had the top two scripted programs of the week, with THE WALKING DEAD (#2) with 12.9 million viewers and the week's best A18-49 demo, a 6.5, and the series premiere of INTO THE BADLANDS (#5), grabbing 6.4 million viewers. The next best scripted program was a Hallmark Christmas movie at #14 and the next best scripted series is AMERICAN HORROR STORY, at #28.

The two NFL games of the week were the top sports programs. MNF (#3) drew 11.4 million viewers, while TNF brought in 7.6 million for the NFL Network.

ALASKAN BUSH PEOPLE topped GOLD RUSH for the best reality series of the week, placing 10th and collecting 4.0 million viewers, about 250k better than GOLD RUSH.

Rank	Day	Show	Net	Time	Viewers*	A18-49
1	Tue	Republican Debate II	FBN	9:00 PM	13.45	2.4
2	Sun	The Walking Dead	AMC	9:00 PM	12.87	6.5
3	Mon	MNF: CHI vs SD	ESPN	8:15 PM	11.44	4.2
4	Thu	TNF: NYJ vs BUF	NFL	8:30 PM	7.57	2.6
5	Sun	Into The Badlands (SP)	AMC	10:00 PM	6.39	3.1
6	Fri	News Desk w/ S. Smith	FOXN	8:00 PM	4.88	0.7
7	Fri	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	4.71	0.7
8	Tue	Republican Debate I	FBN	7:00 PM	4.71	0.5
9	Tue	Lou Dobbs Tonight	FBN	8:15 PM	4.01	0.6
10	Wed	Alaskan Bush People	DISC	9:00 PM	3.99	1.2
11	Fri	Gold Rush	DISC	9:00 PM	3.74	1.2
12	Fri	Anderson Cooper 360	CNN	8:00 PM	3.69	1.1
13	Sat	College Football	ESPN	7:15 PM	3.64	1.1
14	Sat	Hallmark Movie	HALL	8:00 PM	3.60	0.5
15	Fri	The Kelly File	FOXN	10:00 PM	3.59	0.6
16	Mon	WWE Raw	USA	8:00 PM	3.48	1.2
17	Thu	TNF Pre-Kick	NFL	8:00 PM	3.35	1.1
18	Wed	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	3.35	0.3
19	Mon	WWE Raw	USA	9:00 PM	3.18	1.1
20	Fri	Anderson Cooper 360	CNN	9:00 PM	3.16	0.9
21	Sun	Movie: Christmas Inc.	HALL	8:00 PM	3.16	0.6
22	Mon	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	3.12	0.2
23	Sun	Talking Dead	AMC	10:55 PM	3.11	1.6
24	Sun	The Real Housewives/ATL	BRVO	8:00 PM	3.09	1.4
25	Thu	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	3.06	0.2
26	Mon	WWE Raw	USA	10:00 PM	2.86	1.1
27	Wed	American Pickers	HIST	9:00 PM	2.70	0.5
28	Wed	American Horror Story	FX	10:00 PM	2.64	1.4
29	Wed	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	2.64	0.2
30	Mon	Love & Hip Hop/H'Wood	VH1	8:00 PM	2.61	1.4
31	Mon	Major Crimes	TNT	9:00 PM	2.60	0.4
32	Fri	CNN Tonight	CNN	10:00 PM	2.59	0.8
33	Sun	Keeping up with the Kardashians	E!	9:00 PM	2.47	1.3
34	Sun	The Walking Dead	AMC	8:00 PM	2.46	1.0
35	Tue	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	2.45	0.2
36	Sun	Alaska: The Last Frontier	DISC	9:00 PM	2.44	0.6
37	Thu	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	2.44	0.2
38	Tue	If Loving You Is Wrong	OWN	9:00 PM	2.44	0.8
39	Mon	Street outlaws	DISC	9:00 PM	2.36	1.0
40	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	2.30	1.0
41	Thu	WWE Smackdown	SYFY	8:00 PM	2.29	0.6
42	Mon	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	2.26	0.2
43	Tue	Curse of Oak Island	HIST	9:00 PM	2.26	0.7
44	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	2.25	0.9
45	Sun	Sister Wives	TLC	9:00 PM	2.25	0.7
46	Sun	NASCAR Spring Cup: PHOENIX	NBCSN	9:30 PM	2.24	0.5
47	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	2.17	0.7
48	Sat	Hallmark Movie	HALL	10:00 PM	2.16	0.4
49	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:30 PM	2.16	0.7
50	Fri	Girl Meets Wolrd	DSNY	8:30 PM	2.15	0.4
51	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	2.13	0.8
52	Sun	NASCAR Start	NBCSN	9:00 PM	2.11	0.4
53	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	2.11	0.8
54	Sat	College Scoreboard	ESPN	10:30 PM	2.10	0.7
55	Wed	Alaskan Bush People	DISC	8:00 PM	2.07	0.6
56	Thu	Pawn Stars	HIST	9:30 PM	2.07	0.6
57	Mon	Black Ink Crew/CHI	VH1	9:00 PM	2.03	1.1
58	Wed	American Dad	ADSM	10:30 PM	2.00	0.8
59	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	1.97	0.8
60	Sun	Hallmark Movie	HALL	6:00 PM	1.96	0.4
61	Thu	Pawn Stars	HIST	9:00 PM	1.93	0.5
62	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	1.93	0.8
63	Sun	Holiday Baking Champ.	FOOD	9:00 PM	1.93	0.5
64	Sat	College Football	ESPN	10:45 PM	1.92	0.7
65	Sat	College Football	ESPN	7:00 PM	1.91	0.5
66	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	1.91	0.8
67	Sun	The Librarians	TNT	8:00 PM	1.89	0.4
68	Tue	Chrisley Knows Best	USA	10:00 PM	1.86	0.6
69	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:00 PM	1.85	0.6
70	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:30 PM	1.85	0.7
71	Wed	American Pickers	HIST	10:00 PM	1.84	0.4
72	Wed	The Thundermans	NICK	8:00 PM	1.83	0.3
73	Fri	Bunk'd	DSNY	8:00 PM	1.79	0.3
74	Sun	Family Guy	ADSM	10:30 PM	1.79	0.9
75	Tue	Being Mary Jane	BET	10:00 PM	1.78	0.9
76	Tue	KC Undercover	DSNY	8:30 PM	1.77	0.3
77	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	1.77	0.6
78	Tue	American Dad	ADSM	10:30 PM	1.75	0.9
79	Sun	Watch What Happens Live	BRVO	9:00 PM	1.74	0.8
80	Sat	Shepard Smith Reporting	FOXN	8:00 PM	1.74	0.2
81	Thu	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	1.74	0.2
82	Wed	House Hunters	HGTV	10:00 PM	1.73	0.4
83	Wed	NBA Basketball	ESPN	8:00 PM	1.73	0.8
84	Wed	NBA Basketball	ESPN	10:45 PM	1.72	0.8
85	Tue	Hunting Hitler	HIST	10:00 PM	1.71	0.5
86	Sun	Alaska: The Last Frontier	DISC	8:00 PM	1.71	0.5
87	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	1.71	0.6
88	Wed	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	1.71	0.2
89	Sun	Hallmark Movie	HALL	10:00 PM	1.69	0.4
90	Fri	Family Guy	ADSM	10:30 PM	1.68	0.8
91	Tue	Austin & Ally	DSNY	8:00 PM	1.66	0.3
92	Sun	FOX Report Sunday	FOXN	8:00 PM	1.65	0.2
93	Wed	American Dad	ADSM	10:00 PM	1.64	0.6
94	Wed	House Hunters INTL	HGTV	10:30 PM	1.60	0.4
95	Fri	Gold Rush	DISC	8:00 PM	1.60	0.4
96	Fri	Law & Order: SVU	USA	8:00 PM	1.59	0.4
97	Mon	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	1.57	0.2
98	Sat	American Dad	ADSM	10:30 PM	1.57	0.7
99	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:00 PM	1.57	0.5
100	Sun	American Dad	ADSM	10:00 PM	1.56	0.8

* - in millions