The Comedy Central Roast of Jeff Foxworthy laughed its way to being the most-viewed cable program for the week ending March 20, earning 6.2 million total viewers Sunday at 10 p.m. and ranking as the network’s second-most-watched telecast ever, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Two airings of the Scooby-Doo movie on Nick, the film’s premiere television broadcasts, took the second and third spots, with 4.85 and 4.80 million total viewers, respectively, on Saturday and Friday. The Saturday-night broadcast also nabbed the week’s top cable- programming spot with kids 2-11, with 2.9 million in that demo tuning in.
Rounding out the top-five cable programs in prime were Saturday’s 9:30 p.m. episode of SpongeBob on Nick, with 4.78 million viewers, and Monday’s 9 p.m. WWE programming on Spike, with 4.60 million.
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The top three networks for the week in prime were TBS, USA and TNT, averaging 2.44 million, 2.36 million and 2.35 million total viewers respectively.
