SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Thursday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 4.23.2015

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NETWORK UPDATE:  THE BLACKLIST managed to climb out of its lowest rating ever status with a 0.1 increase in final numbers.  Also up 0.1:  THE BIG BANG THEORY.

CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  TNT once again led cable on Thursday with its NBA PLAYOFFS coverage, featuring the Golden State/New Orleans game on top at 1.77, and the Boston/Cleveland game next at 1.41.  (The NBA Network’s Chicago/Milwaukee game was far lower at 0.25.)  The VIKINGS (History) season finale jumped up by 0.21 to 0.95, and its lead-in PAWN STARS was at 0.66 for an original episode and 0.54 for a clip show.  Spike’s newly-renewed LIP SYNC BATTLE slipped 0.03 to 0.81.  On Syfy, WWE gained 0.05 to 0.72.  IMPRACTICAL JOKERS (Tru) dropped 0.06 to 0.47.  On A&E, AFTER THE FIRST 48 rose 0.02 to 0.39, and 8 MINUTES fell 0.06 to 0.27.  RIDICULOUSNESS (MTV) lost 0.14 to 0.35.  MARY MARY (We) was up 0.03 to 0.32.  DIG (USA) took a 0.07 fall to 0.21.  On FX, LOUIE and THE COMEDIANS were fairly stable, LOUIE down 0.01 to 0.20, and COMEDIANS down 0.03 to 0.19.  OLYMPUS (Syfy) was down a tick to 0.16.  A few shows readers have asked about that didn’t reach even the supplemental chart:  THE RED ROAD (Sundance) dropped by half in 18-49s to 0.02, and lost 20% of its total viewers to 165K.  IT TAKES A CHURCH (GSN) fell by more than half in 18-49s to 0.03, and by more than 40% of its total viewers to 207K.  SMALL TOWN BIG DEAL (RFD) continued to register as zero in 18-49s, with 2000 extra viewers for a total of 90K. 

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