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The History Channel’s “Hatfields & McCoys” Most watched Cable Show

History — the channel, not the entity — says Monday night’s “Hatfields & McCoys” was the most-watched non-sports show ever on ad-supported cable TV, with 13.9 million viewers.

Monday was the first two hours of a six-hour miniseries that continues Tuesday and wraps up Wednesday night.

It stars Kevin Costner and Bill Paxton as the patriarchs of the Hatfield and McCoy clans that made sport of killing each other over several decades in the late 19th century.

Costner was also a producer and a prime mover behind the show.

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Sporting events on cable have drawn more viewers, as did Disney’s “High School Musical 2,” which had 17.2 million. But Disney is not ad-supported, so History claims that record.

The 13.9 million was almost exactly the total for all four broadcast networks, which were showing “American Ninja Warrior” plus reruns of “House,” “Two and a Half Men” and “Hart of Dixie.”

The top broadcast show of the night was “America’s Got Talent,” which aired an hour earlier on NBC and drew a little more than 10 million viewers.

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