Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Friday, 4/29/22. Items of note include Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO, and SpongeBob SquarePants on Nickelodeon.
(Note: Click the name of any show with its title in purple or blue to be taken to its page in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Ratings Database.)
Show | Network | 18-49 Viewers | Viewers (mil.) |
| NBA Playoffs: Grizzlies v. Timberwolves | ESPN | 1.20 | 3.47 |
| NFL Draft Night 2 | ESPN | 0.84 | 2.58 |
| NBA Courtside | ESPN | 0.78 | 2.30 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.57 | 1.52 |
| NFL Draft Night 2 | ESPN2 | 0.44 | 1.41 |
| NFL Draft Night 2 | NFL | 0.31 | 0.99 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.28 | 0.71 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.27 | 0.85 |
| Tucker Carlson Tonight | Fox News | 0.22 | 2.75 |
| The Five | Fox News | 0.21 | 3.13 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.21 | 0.53 |
| Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives | Food | 0.20 | 0.89 |
| Love After Lockup | WE | 0.18 | 0.48 |
| First Take | ESPN | 0.18 | 0.60 |
| NFL Live | EPSN | 0.17 | 0.50 |
| 90 Day Fiancé: First Look | ESPN | 0.17 | 0.77 |
| College Gameday | ESPN | 0.17 | 0.56 |
| Hannity | Fox News | 0.16 | 2.16 |
| Hoffman Family Gold | Discovery | 0.16 | 1.03 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.15 | 0.40 |
| Vacation House Rules | HGTV | 0.14 | 1.06 |
| Special Report with Bret Baier | Fox News | 0.14 | 2.27 |
| Ridiculousness | MTV | 0.14 | 0.46 |
| Mama June: First Look | WE | 0.14 | 0.34 |
| All-Elite Wrestling: Rampage | TNT | 0.14 | 0.46 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.14 | 0.43 |
| Get Up | ESPN | 0.14 | 0.47 |
| The Story | Fox News | 0.13 | 1.45 |
| Jesse Watters Primetime | Fox News | 0.13 | 2.11 |
| Outnumbered | Fox News | 0.13 | 1.83 |
| America Reports | Fox News | 0.13 | 1.60 |
| America's Newsroom | Fox News | 0.13 | 1.72 |
| Ridiculousness | MTV | 0.13 | 0.42 |
| America Reports | Fox News | 0.13 | 1.52 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.13 | 0.34 |
| Gutfeld! | Fox News | 0.13 | 1.89 |
| Gold Rush: Freddy Dodge's Mine Rescue | Discovery | 0.13 | 1.02 |
| This Just In | ESPN | 0.13 | 0.37 |
| SpongeBob SquarePants | Nickelodeon | 0.12 | 0.40 |
| America's Newsroom | Fox News | 0.12 | 1.66 |
| Liga MX | TUDN | 0.11 | 0.30 |
| Fox & Friends | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.77 |
| The Faulkner Focus | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.76 |
| Your World with Neil Cavuto | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.46 |
| The Ingraham Angle | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.79 |
| 90 Day Fiancé: More To Love | TLC | 0.11 | 0.49 |
| Fox & Friends | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.04 |
| Liga MX | TUDN | 0.10 | 0.28 |
| Blaze and the Monster Machines | Nickelodeon | 0.10 | 0.36 |
| NFL Total Access | NFL | 0.10 | 0.33 |
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| Anderson Cooper 360 | CNN | 0.10 | 0.65 |
| The Smurfs | Nickelodeon | 0.07 | 0.28 |
| Middlemost Post | Nickelodeon | 0.06 | 0.24 |
| Real Time with Bill Maher | HBO | 0.06 | 0.72 |
| The Situation Room | CNN | 0.06 | 0.58 |
| Erin Burnett OutFront | CNN | 0.06 | 0.53 |
| The Rachel Maddow Show | MSNBC | 0.06 | 1.18 |
| Raven's Home | Disney | 0.05 | 0.18 |
| Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell | MSNBC | 0.05 | 0.90 |
| The ReidOut | MSNBC | 0.05 | 0.78 |
| Tooned In | Nickelodeon | 0.05 | 0.19 |
| All In with Chris Hayes | MSNBC | 0.04 | 1.01 |
| Deadline: White House | MSNBC | 0.04 | 0.99 |
| Morning Joe | MSNBC | 0.04 | 0.79 |
| 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle A Black Lady Sketch Show | MSNBC HBO | 0.03 0.02 | 0.65 0.13 |
