Thursday Cable Ratings 1/4/18: Nashville Returns Up for Final Season, Rachel Maddow Again Tops Cable News

Below are the Top 25 programs on cable on Thursday, 1/4/17. Items of note include the final season premiere of Nashville on CMT, Top Chef on Bravo, and The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC.

Show	Network	18-49 Viewers	Viewers (mil.)
NBA: Warriors v. Rockets	TNT	0.95	2.87
NBA: Thunder v. Clippers	TNT	0.64	1.54
NBA Pre-Game	TNT	0.49	1.59
60 Days In	A&E	0.43	0.96
The Rachel Maddow Show	MSNBC	0.39	3.22
Million Dollar Listing LA	Bravo	0.38	1.10
Top Chef	Bravo	0.36	0.96
The First 48	A&E	0.36	1.05
Betrayed	Invest. Discovery	0.34	1.33
Inside the NBA	TNT	0.33	0.75
Beat Bobby Flay	Food	0.33	1.05
House Hunters International	HGTV	0.32	1.53
The Last Word	MSNBC	0.32	2.64
Dr. Popper	TLC	0.32	0.98
Hannity	Fox News	0.31	3.14
Pardon the Interruption	ESPN	0.31	0.85
Anderson Cooper 360	CNN	0.29	1.51
Tucker Carlson Tonight	Fox News	0.29	2.91
House Hunters	HGTV	0.28	1.37
The Perfect Suspect	Invest. Discovery	0.28	1.18
Flip or Flop Ft. Worth	HGTV	0.28	1.21
American Pickers	History	0.27	1.67
All In with Chris Hayes	MSNBC	0.27	2.07
Two and a Half Men	Nick-At-Nite	0.26	0.60
Erin Burnett OutFront	CNN	0.25	1.25

Off the chart, Nashville returned up from its finale at 0.21. Ghost Wars was down to 0.09, Superstition fell to 0.07. Damnation fell to 0.16. In cable news, The Ingraham Angle held steady at 0.25. MSNBC's Morning Joe was up to 0.15, with Deadline: White House up to 0.17 and Velshi & Ruhle up to 0.13. CNN's The Lead was up to 0.21, with Wolf up to 0.18 and At This Hour at 0.15. The Daily Show was down to 0.22.