Young and the Rested

摘要

Sex and the City commanded a global following. The Sopranos numbers are off the charts. But talk about cable viewers, and the winner and still champion is kids. That's right. Those too young to buy birth-control pills or worry whether Tony will get whacked are the heavy hitters of cable, especially basic cable. Check the box scores: On Saturday Feb. 22, starting at 9:30 a.m., an audience of roughly 5 million relished an hour of cartoons on Nickelodeon. Four nights later, about 250,000 fewer people tuned in to watch USA's Monk―basic cable's most popular prime time series.