UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY’s Top 150 Thursday Cable Originals & Network Finals: 4.5.2018

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NETWORK FINALS:  Due to baseball preemptions of CW’s line-up in NY, adjustments pushed SUPERNATURAL down 0.2 and ARROW down 0.1.  Elsewhere, GREY’S ANATOMY and THE BIG BANG THEORY gained 0.1 in final numbers, while MOM lost the same.

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CABLE HIGHLIGHTS:  The craze for reboots shows no sign of dimming, as MTV blew away the rest of Thursday cable with the premiere of JERSEY SHORE: FAMILY VACATION at 1.49/1.42.  TNT’s NBA doubleheader was at 0.61/0.44.  ESPN’s afternoon MASTERS TOURNAMENT coverage was at 0.55, with morning coverage at 0.23.  VH1’s RUPAUL’S DRAG RACE jumped 0.13 to 0.42, and UNTUCKED was up 0.11 to 0.30.  An extraordinarily strange episode of FX’s ATLANTA rose 0.09 to 0.41.  On History, SWAMP PEOPLE gained 0.04 to 0.38, and TRUCK NIGHT IN AMERICA ticked up to 0.34.  On Bravo, SOUTHERN CHARM returned at 0.36, and the season premiere of IMPOSTERS was at 0.14 (down from last year’s 0.21 premiere and 0.28 finale, both after stronger REAL HOUSEWIFE lead-ins).  MSNBC’s RACHEL MADDOW SHOW topped cable news at 0.33/0.49/2.9M, above Fox News’s TUCKER CARLSON TONIGHT at 0.26/0.45/2.5M, and CNN’s ANDERSON COOPER 360 at 0.18/0.23/900K.  On We, BRAXTON FAMILY VALUES ticked up to 0.32, and HUSTLE & SOUL was up 0.05 to 0.21  On ID, DIABOLICAL edged up 0.02 to 0.31, and PANDORA’S BOX ticked up to 0.23.  Food Network’s BEAT BOBBY FLAY was steady at 0.30.  On A&E, THE FIRST 48 dropped 0.05 to 0.28, and MARCIA CLARK INVESTIGATES was down 0.06 to 0.20.  On HGTV, HOUSE HUNTERS fell 0.07 to 0.27, HOUSE HUNTERS INTL lost 0.06 to 0.27, and FLIP OR FLOP was down 0.02 to 0.23.  The season finale of Lifetime’s PROJECT RUNWAY gained 0.03 to 0.25.  Tru’s IMPRACTICAL JOKERS fell 0.08 to 0.25, and INSIDE JOKES was down 0.09 to 0.15.  USA’s WWE WRESTLEMANIA’S GREATEST MOMENTS special was at 0.24, and NINJA VS NINJA was steady at 0.21.  Freeform’s SIREN dropped to 0.23 from last week’s 0.30/0.30 premiere.  POP’s IMPACT WRESTLING fell 0.04 to 0.06.  TV Land’s NOBODIES was at 0.05, compared to last week’s 0.06/0.05. 

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