Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Thursday, 3/17/22. Items of note include Top Chef on Bravo, the season finale of Single Drunk Female on Freeform, and The Five on Fox News.
(Note: Click the names of the shows written in purple or blue to be taken to their pages in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Database.)
Show | Network | 18-49 Viewers | Viewers (mil.) |
| NCAA Tournament: NM St v. UConn | TNT | 0.89 | 2.52 |
| NCAA Tournament: VT v. AR | TNT | 0.67 | 2.13 |
| NCAA Tournament: GA St. v Gonzaga | TNT | 0.65 | 2.29 |
| NCAA Tournament: Akron v. UCLA | TBS | 0.53 | 1.69 |
| NCAA Tournament: Richmond v. IA | TruTV | 0.52 | 1.87 |
| NCAA Post-Game | TruTV | 0.46 | 1.43 |
| NCAA Post-Game | TnT | 0.43 | 1.37 |
| NCAA Tournament: IN v. St. Mary's | TBS | 0.39 | 1.61 |
| Road to Final Four | TBS | 0.36 | 1.32 |
| NCAA Tournament: Creighton v. San Diego St. | TruTV | 0.35 | 1.23 |
| NCAA Tournament: Marquette v. NC | TBS | 0.33 | 1.17 |
| Flip or Flop | HGTV | 0.26 | 1.68 |
| NCAA Tournament: TX So. v. KS | TruTV | 0.26 | 0.87 |
| NCAA Tournament: Memphis v. Boise St. | TNT | 0.25 | 0.81 |
| NCAA Tournament: SD St. v. Providence | TruTV | 0.23 | 0.80 |
| The Five | Fox News | 0.22 | 3.18 |
| Jersey Shore Family Vacation | MTV | 0.22 | 0.44 |
| NCAA Pre-Game | TNT | 0.21 | 0.85 |
| Jesse Watters Primetime | Fox News | 0.21 | 2.99 |
| The First 48 | A&E | 0.20 | 0.87 |
| Tucker Carlson Tonight | Fox News | 0.20 | 3.29 |
| The Ingraham Angle | Fox News | 0.19 | 2.40 |
| Top Chef | Bravo | 0.19 | 0.75 |
| Special Report with Bret Baier | Fox News | 0.18 | 2.57 |
| CNN Newsroom w/ Camerota & Blackwell | CNN | 0.18 | 1.03 |
| The Faulkner Focus | Fox News | 0.18 | 2.02 |
| Fix My Flip | HGTV | 0.17 | 0.94 |
| House Hunters | HGTV | 0.17 | 1.11 |
| Ountnumbered | Fox News | 0.17 | 2.03 |
| Gutfeld! | Fox News | 0.17 | 2.10 |
| Erin Burnett OutFront | CNN | 0.16 | 0.98 |
| Anderson Cooper 360 | CNN | 0.16 | 1.13 |
| Anderson Cooper 360 | CNN | 0.16 | 1.02 |
| NCAA Pre-Game | TBS | 0.16 | 0.74 |
| Don Lemon Tonight | CNN | 0.16 | 0.98 |
| Restaurant Impossible | Food | 0.15 | 0.89 |
| CNN Newsroom w/ Camerota & Blackwell | CNN | 0.15 | 1.02 |
| House Hunters International | HGTV | 0.15 | 1.05 |
| The Lead with Jake Tapper | CNN | 0.15 | 0.96 |
| Battlebots | Discovery | 0.15 | 0.73 |
| Your World with Neil Cavuto | Fox News | 0.15 | 1.78 |
| Nightwatch | A&E | 0.14 | 0.75 |
| Fox & Friends | Fox News | 0.14 | 1.83 |
| America Reports | Fox News | 0.14 | 1.84 |
| America's Newsroom | Fox News | 0.14 | 2.00 |
| NCAA Post-Game | TBS | 0.14 | 0.51 |
| First Take | ESPN | 0.14 | 0.43 |
| CNN Newsroom w/ Ana Cabrera | CNN | 0.14 | 1.01 |
| Highlights Below the Chart: | |||
| The Situation Room | CNN | 0.13 | 0.79 |
| All In with Chris Hayes | MSNBC | 0.10 | 1.25 |
| The Rachel Maddow Show | MSNBC | 0.10 | 1.47 |
| The Daily Show | Comedy Central | 0.09 | 0.37 |
| Warped! | Nickelodeon | 0.09 | 0.36 |
| Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell | MSNBC | 0.07 | 1.45 |
| The ReidOut | MSNBC | 0.06 | 1.08 |
| Grown-ish | Freeform | 0.06 | 0.16 |
| 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC | 0.05 | 0.88 |
| Deadline: White House | MSNBC | 0.05 | 1.04 |
| Morning Joe | MSNBC | 0.03 | 0.91 |
| Single Drunk Female | Freeform | 0.03 | 0.09 |
