Below are the top 50 programs on cable on Thursday, 3/16/23. Items of note include Top Chef on Bravo, and March Madness on TNT, TBS and TruTV, and Tucker Carlson Tonight 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.) |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: Auburn v. IA | TNT | 1.13 | 3.44 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: N. KY v. Houston | TNT | 0.87 | 2.49 |
| NCAA Basketball Tournament Bridge Programing | TNT | 0.68 | 1.89 |
| NCAA Basketball Tournament Bridge Programing | TNT | 0.62 | 1.82 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: Penn St. v. TX A&M | TBS | 0.59 | 1.85 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: Charleston v. SD St. | TruTV | 0.57 | 1.58 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: Princeton v. AZ | TNT | 0.55 | 1.80 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: IL v. AR | TBS | 0.55 | 1.97 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: Colgate v. TX | TBS | 0.54 | 1.71 |
| Road to the Final Four | TBS | 0.46 | 1.59 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: Boise St. v. NWern | TruTV | 0.45 | 1.58 |
| NCAA Basketball Tournament Bridge Programing | TBS | 0.40 | 1.37 |
| NCAA Basketball Tournament Bridge Programing | TruTV | 0.34 | 1.00 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: UT St. V. MO | TNT | 0.31 | 1.04 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: Furman v. VA | TruTV | 0.28 | 0.91 |
| NCAA Basketball Tournament Bridge Programing | TruTV | 0.28 | 0.86 |
| NCAA Basketball Tournament Bridge Programing | TNT | 0.28 | 0.95 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: Howard v. KS | TBS | 0.22 | 0.82 |
| Jersey Shore Family Vacation | MTV | 0.19 | 0.37 |
| 2023 NCAA Basketball Tournament: UNC Asheville v. UCLA | TruTV | 0.19 | 0.70 |
| NCAA Basketball Tournament Bridge Programing | TBS | 0.17 | 0.82 |
| Tucker Carlson Tonight | Fox News | 0.17 | 2.90 |
| First Take | ESPN | 0.15 | 0.49 |
| The First 48 | A&E | 0.14 | 0.70 |
| Top Chef | Bravo | 0.14 | 0.66 |
| Butchers of the Bayou | A&E | 0.13 | 0.63 |
| House Hunters | HGTV | 0.13 | 1.02 |
| The Flipping El Moussas | HGTV | 0.13 | 0.82 |
| Gutfeld! | Fox News | 0.13 | 1.92 |
| The Five | Fox News | 0.13 | 2.75 |
| Naked & Afraid: Solo | TBS | 0.12 | 0.39 |
| NCAA Basketball Tournament Post-Game | TruTV | 0.12 | 0.41 |
| Restaurant Impossible | Food | 0.12 | 0.76 |
| Married to Real Estate | HGTV | 0.12 | 0.97 |
| Hannity | Fox News | 0.12 | 2.26 |
| Butchers of the Bayou | A&E | 0.11 | 0.54 |
| Get Up | ESPN | 0.10 | 0.41 |
| House Hunters International | HGTV | 0.10 | 0.90 |
| Sportscenter | ESPN | 0.10 | 0.22 |
| Outnumbered | Fox News | 0.10 | 1.50 |
| My 600-Lb. Life: Supersized | TLC | 0.09 | 0.46 |
| Butchers of the Bayou | A&E | 0.09 | 0.29 |
| Fox & Friends | Fox News | 0.09 | 1.36 |
| The Ingraham Angle | Fox News | 0.09 | 1.84 |
| America's Newsroom | Fox News | 0.09 | 1.40 |
| CONCACAF Champions League | TUDN | 0.09 | 0.23 |
| XFL: Houston v. Seattle | ESPN | 0.09 | 0.26 |
| Jesse Watters Primetime | Fox News | 0.09 | 2.44 |
| America Reports | Fox News | 0.09 | 1.44 |
| The Faulkner Focus | Fox News | 0.09 | 1.43 |
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| Ghost Adventures | Travel | 0.07 | 0.26 |
| Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell | MSNBC | 0.07 | 1.43 |
| Erin Burnett OutFront | CNN | 0.06 | 0.57 |
| The ReidOut | MSNBC | 0.06 | 1.08 |
| All In with Chris Hayes | MSNBC | 0.06 | 1.32 |
| 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle | MSNBC | 0.06 | 1.03 |
| Young Dylan | Nickelodeon | 0.06 | 0.20 |
| Anderson Cooper 360 | CNN | 0.05 | 0.56 |
| That Girl Lay Lay | Nickelodeon | 0.05 | 0.15 |
| Deadline: White House | MSNBC | 0.04 | 1.22 |
| The Situation Room | CNN | 0.04 | 0.43 |
| Morning Joe | MSNBC | 0.03 | 0.77 |
