SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 100 Wednesday Cable Originals (& Network Update): 8.26.2015

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NETWORK UPDATE:  BIG BROTHER gained 0.1 in final numbers, and the CRIMINAL MINDS rerun lost the same.  On ABC, CELEBRITY WIFE SWAP was down 0.1, and the MODERN FAMILY rerun was up the same. 

CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  HGTV must have been using some secret sauce last night, placing 3 of the night’s top 5 cable originals.  HOUSE HUNTERS won the night at 0.71, HOUSE HUNTERS INTERNATIONAL leaped 0.22 to 0.58, and PROP BROTHERS BUY AND SELL gained a tenth to 0.57.  The midseason finale of SUITS (an odd hour with a ton of flashbacks and a surprise finish) was up a hundredth to 0.62.  (Viewers of MR. ROBOT will already know that its season finale was pushed a week because a sequence has unfortunately echoes of yesterday’s on-air shooting.)  ESPN’s coverage of the LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES was at 0.59, with an afternoon game at 0.40.  On History, AMERICAN PICKERS rose 0.11 to 0.56.  Lifetime’s LITTLE WOMEN LA was steady at 0.54, and TERRA’S LITTLE FAMILY was up a bit, at 0.42/0.40 compared to last week’s 0.41/0.37.  CATFISH (MTV) ticked up to 0.53, and AMERICA’S BEST DANCE CREW gained 0.08 to 0.28.  Food Network’s CAMP CUTTHROAT slipped 0.02 to 0.42.  GHOST HUNTERS returned to Syfy at 0.38, and lead-out PARANORMAL WITNESS was at 0.28.  Without a DUCK DYNASTY lead-in, A&E’s WAHLBURGERS sagged by 0.21 to 0.37, DONNIE LOVES JENNY was at 0.27, and LACHEY’S BAR dropped 0.08 to 0.15.  On ABCFamily, YOUNG & HUNGRY dropped 0.11 to 0.31 (and by 0.17 in F12-34s to 0.61), and KEVIN FROM WORK collapsed by half, down to 0.10 (and 261K total viewers).  VH1’s DATING NAKED lost 0.02 to 0.31, and TWINNING faded by 0.02 to 0.23.  On Comedy Central, KEY & POOLE fell 0.12 to 0.30, and WHY WITH HANNIBAL BURRESS lost 0.04 to 0.16.  THE JIM GAFFIGAN SHOW gained 0.03 to 0.23 on Nick At Nite, but fell 0.06 to 0.09 on TV Land (with 443K total viewers), while IMPASTOR was up 0.02 on Nick At Nite to 0.18, but was off by 0.04 on TV Land to 0.09 (351K viewers).  THE EXES, airing just on TV Land, held at 0.09, with 352K total viewers.  BIG BROTHER AFTER DARK (POP) was at 0.03/89K.

The DAM Report:  IMPACT WRESTLING dropped by 0.03 to 0.06 at 9PM, with 279K total viewers, and added 0.01/83K at midnight (down 0.01/up 10K).  RING OF HONOR was at 0.02/149K (down 0.01/up 4K). 

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