'Duck Dynasty' Beat Dick Wolf?
6:00 AM PDT 10/23/2012 by Michael O'Connell
How cable is trouncing the Big Four in ratings.
The broadcasters' largely lackluster fall season has been a boon to cable ratings. Numbers no one would have imagined just a few years ago now come in the oddest places, from TLC's Breaking Amish outperforming several Big Four scripted dramas to FX's Sons of Anarchy running over ABC's Dancing With the Stars. Here is a look at five of the more improbable smackdowns.
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