Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Wednesday, 8/31/22. Items of note include Archer on FXX, Grown-ish on Freeform and Resident Alien on Syfy.
(Click the names of the shows written in teal or blue to be taken to their pages in the TV Ratings Guide Cable Database.)
Show | Network | 18-49 Viewers | Viewers (mil.) |
| US Open Tennis | ESPN | 0.51 | 2.27 |
| All-Elite Wrestling: Dynamite | TBS | 0.35 | 1.02 |
| Real Housewives of Beverly Hills | Bravo | 0.30 | 1.08 |
| Tucker Carlson Tonight | Fox News | 0.24 | 298 |
| The Five | Fox News | 0.23 | 3.40 |
| Dr. Pimple Popper | TLC | 0.21 | 1.44 |
| The Ingraham Angle | Fox News | 0.19 | 2.21 |
| Hannity | Fox News | 0.18 | 2.63 |
| Special Report with Bret Baier | Fox News | 0.18 | 2.33 |
| Gutfeld! | Fox News | 0.16 | 2.10 |
| Married At First Sight | Lifetime | 0.15 | 0.83 |
| Fox & Friends | Fox News | 0.14 | 1.68 |
| WNBA Playoffs | ESPN2 | 0.14 | 0.50 |
| First Take | ESPN | 0.13 | 0.39 |
| America's Newsroom | Fox News | 0.13 | 1.69 |
| Jesse Watters Primetime | Fox News | 0.13 | 2.42 |
| Guy's Ultimate Game Night | Food | 0.13 | 0.69 |
| Court Cam | A&E | 0.13 | 0.64 |
| Court Cam | A&E | 0.13 | 0.62 |
| Anderson Cooper 360 | CNN | 0.12 | 1.03 |
| Archer | FXX | 0.12 | 0.27 |
| America Reports | Fox News | 0.12 | 1.55 |
| Farmhouse Fixer | HGTV | 0.12 | 1.12 |
| Fox & Friends | Fox News | 0.12 | 1.30 |
| House Hunters | HGTV | 0.12 | 1.04 |
| Premier League | USA | 0.12 | 0.36 |
| Real Housewives of Dubai | Bravo | 0.12 | 0.55 |
| US Open Tennis | ESPN | 0.12 | 0.70 |
| America's Newsroom | Fox News | 0.12 | 1.64 |
| Outnumbered | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.78 |
| Selección Mexicana | TUDN | 0.11 | 0.28 |
| Expedition Unknown | Discovery | 0.11 | 0.99 |
| Fox News @ Night | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.01 |
| Fox & Friends | Fox News | 0.11 | 1.06 |
| Ridiculousness | MTV | 0.11 | 0.33 |
| Bad Hair Day | TLC | 0.10 | 0.79 |
| Dr. Pimple Popper: Pop Ups | TLC | 0.10 | 0.83 |
| The Story | Fox News | 0.10 | 1.47 |
| Erin Burnett OutFront | Fox News | 0.10 | 0.81 |
| America Reports | Fox News | 0.10 | 1.43 |
| In Pursuit: Captured | ID | 0.10 | 0.57 |
| Get Up | ESPn | 0.10 | 0.34 |
| Your World with Neil Cavuto | Fox News | 0.10 | 1.47 |
| CNN Tonight | CNN | 0.09 | 0.82 |
| Farmhouse Fixer | HGTV | 0.09 | 0.89 |
| The Faulkner Focus | Fox News | 0.09 | 1.67 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.09 | 0.31 |
| Welcome to Wrexham | FX | 0.09 | 0.23 |
| Forged in Fire | History | 0.09 | 0.53 |
| Tales from Explorer's Club | Discovery | 0.09 | 0.84 |
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| Don Lemon Tonight | CNN | 0.08 | 0.71 |
| 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC | 0.08 | 1.40 |
| The Situation Room | CNN | 0.07 | 0.70 |
| Resident Alien | Syfy | 0.07 | 0.64 |
| Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell | MSNBC | 0.06 | 2.03 |
| The ReidOut | MSNBC | 0.06 | 1.40 |
| All In with Chris Hayes | MSNBC | 0.06 | 1.71 |
| Deadline: White House | MSNBC | 0.06 | 1.64 |
| Welcome to Wrexham | FX | 0.06 | 0.16 |
| Morning Joe | MSNBC | 0.05 | 0.99 |
| Grown-ish | Freeform | 0.04 | 0.10 |
| Everything's Trash | Freeform | 0.03 | 0.06 |
