Dr. Drew Beats Maddow, Closes On Hannity Tuesday Night

Cable news ratings, June 20, 2011:

•Intensified interest in the murder trial of Casey Anthony has sent viewers swamping HLN, and the network’s newest show, Dr. Drew, has benefited greatly. After a slow start for the Drew Pinsky-hosted show, Dr. Drew finished in second place Tuesday among viewers 25-54, with 377,000. That pushed MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow into third place with 338,000 and CNN’s Piers Morgan into fourth place overall with 157,000. Fox’s Sean Hannity won the hour with 434,000 viewers in the demo.

•Huge ratings for HLN seems to be hurting sister network CNN, where three of its key evening shows, Situation Room (6 p.m.), John King, USA, and In the Arena each failed to attract 100,000 viewers 25-54. Those unusually low numbers were not helped by the absence of both 7 p.m. host John King and 8 p.m. host Eliot Spitzer, both off this week.

Here’s the full scoreboard: