Movie Box Review

AMC's Walking Dead is the new king of the weekly cable ratings chart, with a terrific 4.2 Adult 18-49 rating for Sunday's season premiere.  Read more on the Walking Dead premiere here.  The rest of the top-rated cable programs are pretty much unchanged.  While Jersey Shore continues its downward trend, the other MTV hit, Teen Mom 2, ticked up nicely.  Pawn Stars (History) and Gold Rush (Discovery) continue to deliver their reliably solid audience levels.

Also, new to the chart is History's Swamp People.  While a 1.9 rating is very solid for a cable show, I'm not sure it justifies advertisement in the Super Bowl.  Click "read more" for the complete chart.

Not much change at the top of the weekly cable ratings chart, with Jersey Shore, Pawn Stars and Teen Mom 2 leading the pack.  However, all three shows were down from recent highs as we enter the February sweep and these shows face nothing but original episodes on the broadcast networks. 

Tosh.0 returned to Comedy Central for another burst of original episodes and score a very good 1.9 rating with young adults.  As it hits all-time series highs on CBS Thursd, Big Bang Theory is also performing extremely well for TBS in the 10 pm hour weeknights. 

Taste, elegance and intelligence tops the weekly cable programming chart.  The parade starts with the young adults of Jersey Shore, moves across the Hudson River as Kourtney & Kim Take New York, touches the LA area with Pawn Stars, and one it goes through Teen Mom, WWE wrestling, Real Housewives, etc.  It's not the classiest bunch of programs, but it is what viewers are choosing to distract themselves from the real world. 

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Updated weekly  cable rating chart below.  More of the same, fine shows such as Jersey Shore and Pawn Stars and Storage Wars top the list.  

Most shows that are highly rated on cable are found in the 10 pm hour, but it is interesting to note the success ABC Family has in the 8 pm hour on Monday.  Pretty Little Liars has built to a 1.4 rating with Adults 18-49 (with most of that rating concentrated with females under 35). 

Complete chart after the jump.