Top 100 Primetime Cable: September 12 - 18, 2016

Football dominates the top of the weekly cable chart, with two Monday Night NFL games taking the #1 and #2 spots and the Thursday Night game grabbing the #6 spot. The early MNF game drew just under 13 million viewers, with a 7 PM start time, while the late game, starting at 10 PM (ET), held onto 10.3 million viewers. The NFL Network simulcast of TNF collected 3.4 million viewers.

The season premiere of AMERICAN HORROR STORY was the week's #1 scripted series on cable, posting a 2.8 rating in Adults 18-49 and the third best viewership total, with 5.1 million. FEAR THE WALKING DEAD fell to 5th overall and second in the scripted original category.

MOUNTAIN MEN tops the reality TV genre, ranking 20th overall, with 2.6 million total viewers. That is about 300K more then FLIP OR FLOP, on HGTV.

Rank	Day	Show	Net	Time	P2*	A18-49
1	Mon	MNF: PIT v WAS	ESPN	6:55 PM	12,961	4.8
2	Mon	MNF: LA v SF	ESPN	10:12 PM	10,252	4.2
3	Wed	American Horror Story	FX	10:00 PM	5,137	2.8
4	Tue	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	3,664	0.3
5	Sun	Fear The Walking Dead	AMC	9:00 PM	3,616	1.6
6	Thu	TNF: NYJ v BUF	NFL	8:27 PM	3,388	1.5
7	Wed	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	3,362	0.3
8	Mon	Major Crimes	TNT	10:00 PM	3,289	0.4
9	Mon	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	3,278	0.3
10	Tue	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	3,271	0.3
11	Thu	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	3,228	0.3
12	Mon	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	3,021	0.3
13	Wed	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	2,993	0.3
14	Fri	The O'Reilly Factor	FOXN	8:00 PM	2,953	0.2
15	Tue	If Loving You Is Wrong	OWN	9:00 PM	2,941	0.8
16	Mon	WWE Raw	USA	8:00 PM	2,833	1.0
17	Thu	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	2,769	0.3
18	Mon	WWE Raw	USA	9:00 PM	2,717	0.9
19	Tue	WWE Smackdown	USA	8:00 PM	2,658	0.9
20	Thu	Mountain Men	HIST	9:00 PM	2,586	0.5
21	Mon	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	2,533	0.3
22	Mon	WWE Raw	USA	10:00 PM	2,520	0.9
23	Tue	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	2,474	0.3
24	Wed	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	2,385	0.3
25	Fri	The Kelly File	FOXN	9:00 PM	2,339	0.2
26	Thu	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	2,335	0.3
27	Thu	Flip or Flop	HGTV	9:00 PM	2,327	0.5
28	Tue	JonBenet: American Murder	ID	10:00 PM	2,321	0.6
29	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	2,235	0.8
30	Fri	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	2,230	0.7
31	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	2,202	0.8
32	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	2,197	0.8
33	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	2,191	0.7
34	Wed	South Park	CMDY	10:00 PM	2,167	1.3
35	Thu	College Football: HOU v CIN	ESPN	7:25 PM	2,159	0.7
36	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	2,137	0.7
37	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	2,137	0.7
38	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	2,088	0.7
39	Sat	College Football: TEX A&M v AUB	ESPN	7:05 PM	2,088	0.7
40	Sun	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	2,085	0.7
41	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	2,072	0.7
42	Mon	Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood	VH1	8:00 PM	2,053	1.0
43	Sun	POWER	STARZ	9:02 PM	2,038	0.9
44	Fri	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	2,034	0.6
45	Sun	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:00 PM	2,027	0.7
46	Thu	Flip or Flop	HGTV	9:30 PM	2,000	0.5
47	Fri	HANNITY	FOXN	10:00 PM	1,998	0.2
48	Wed	Queen Sugar	OWN	10:00 PM	1,997	0.6
49	Mon	The Real Housewives/ OC	BRVO	9:00 PM	1,973	0.7
50	Wed	JonBenet: American Murder	ID	10:00 PM	1,973	0.5
51	Sun	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:30 PM	1,972	0.7
52	Thu	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	1,960	0.7
53	Wed	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:30 PM	1,948	0.6
54	Thu	House Hunters	HGTV	10:00 PM	1,936	0.4
55	Sun	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	1,928	0.6
56	Wed	SUITS	USA	9:00 PM	1,921	0.5
57	Tue	Chrisley Knows Best	USA	10:00 PM	1,916	0.7
58	Sun	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	1,916	0.7
59	Wed	Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	9:00 PM	1,910	0.2
60	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:30 PM	1,890	0.6
61	Fri	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:30 PM	1,889	0.6
62	Wed	House Hunters	HGTV	10:00 PM	1,871	0.4
63	Thu	Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	9:00 PM	1,871	0.2
64	Mon	JonBenet: American Murder	ID	10:00 PM	1,868	0.5
65	Sun	Chesapeake Shores	HALL	9:00 PM	1,851	0.2
66	Thu	House Hunters INTL	HGTV	10:30 PM	1,837	0.3
67	Sat	Henry Danger	NICK	8:00 PM	1,822	0.3
68	Sun	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	1,804	0.7
69	Fri	Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	9:00 PM	1,784	0.2
70	Tue	Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	9:00 PM	1,782	0.2
71	Tue	House Hunters	HGTV	10:00 PM	1,780	0.4
72	Wed	House Hunters INTL	HGTV	10:30 PM	1,765	0.3
73	Wed	The Real Housewives/ NYC	BRVO	9:00 PM	1,763	0.6
74	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:30 PM	1,741	0.6
75	Thu	Project Runway	LIFE	9:00 PM	1,721	0.4
76	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:00 PM	1,718	0.5
77	Tue	House Hunters INTL	HGTV	10:30 PM	1,713	0.4
78	Mon	Family Guy	ADSW	10:30 PM	1,688	0.8
79	Tue	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	8:00 PM	1,680	0.5
80	Mon	House Hunters INTL	HGTV	10:30 PM	1,680	0.4
81	Sat	Movie: The Revenant	HBO	8:00 PM	1,669	0.5
82	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	9:00 PM	1,669	0.5
83	Sat	Justice with Judge Jeannie	FOXN	9:00 PM	1,667	0.1
84	Tue	Last Word w/ L.O'Donnell	MSNBC	10:00 PM	1,655	0.2
85	Sat	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	10:30 PM	1,651	0.5
86	Wed	Property Bros.: Buy & Sell	HGTV	9:00 PM	1,649	0.4
87	Fri	House Hunters	HGTV	10:00 PM	1,641	0.3
88	Mon	House Hunters	HGTV	10:00 PM	1,623	0.3
89	Wed	American Pickers	HIST	9:00 PM	1,605	0.3
90	Wed	Last Word w/ L.O'Donnell	MSNBC	10:00 PM	1,596	0.2
91	Fri	Last Word w/ L.O'Donnell	MSNBC	10:00 PM	1,591	0.2
92	Fri	Family Guy	ADSW	10:30 PM	1,585	0.7
93	Wed	Little Women: LA	LIFE	9:00 PM	1,573	0.6
94	Wed	American Dad	ADSW	10:30 PM	1,570	0.7
95	Sun	Justice with Judge Jeannie	FOXN	9:00 PM	1,564	0.2
96	Sat	Game Shakers	NICK	8:30 PM	1,559	0.3
97	Fri	House Hunters INTL	HGTV	10:30 PM	1,558	0.3
98	Sun	The Big Bang Theory	TBS	7:30 PM	1,557	0.5
99	Tue	Fixer Upper	HGTV	9:00 PM	1,552	0.4
100	Tue	DC: Dungeon Cove	DISC	9:00 PM	1,541	0.5

* - Viewership (,000)