A Solid Return for 'Breaking Bad,' but Not Enough to Vanquish 'Longmire' In a highly competitive night for cable programming, a meth lord and a politician were outgunned in the ratings by a straight-talkin" sheriff. The Season 5 premiere of "Breaking Bad" on AMC at 10 p.m. reached a series high in total viewers, with 2.9 million, up 14 percent from the 2.6 million who tuned in to the Season 4 premiere last year. It was also up 34 percent in the advertiser-beloved 18-to-49-year-old demographic. Elsewhere, also at 10, "Political Animals," a new mini-series on USA that features Sigourney Weaver as a Hillary Clinton-inspired former first lady and current secretary of state, had a modest debut with an average of 2.6 million total viewers. But neither program could compete with the total audience numbers for another 10 p.m. drama, "Longmire" on A&E. The seventh episode of that modern western, which stars Robert Taylor as a Wyoming sheriff, hit a series high with 4.5 million total viewers.