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A promotional image has been released for “Million Dollar Maybe”, which airs Sunday January 31st on Fox. The episode features the appearance of Chris Martin from band Coldplay, and will also see Peggy Black’s (winner of last year’s Simpsons Character Contest) character creation Ricardo Bomba appear.

The Simpsons topped ratings last night with 8.65 million tuning in to watch “Thursdays With Abie” at 8:30pm, up by an impressive 25% on the last new episode.

Fox have released a promotional image for Sunday January 10th’s premiere of “Once Upon a Time in Springfield”, the milestone 450th episode of The Simpsons. Krusty the Clown is forced to hire an actress named Princess Penelope for The Krusty the Clown Show to generate more young, female viewers. Krusty and Princess Penelope end up in a relationship.

Fox have released a promotional image from Sunday December 13th’s premiere of “O Brother, Where Bart Thou?”, which is set to be the last new episode from the 21st season to air this year. When Homer denies Bart’s request for a baby brother, Bart makes his way to the Springfield Orphanage to find what he thinks he’s missing.

All shows in Fox’s weekly Animation Domination last night were up on last week’s, and what’s more, a new episode of The Simpsons won the night for the third time this season, with 8.9 million tuning in, a 27% increase on last week’s 7.39 million.

The American Music Awards aired on ABC last night, which pushed all of Fox’s Animation Domination lineup down from last week. A new episode of The Simpsons, “Pranks and Greens”, with 7.04 million, was just behind a new episode of Family Guy, with 7.39 million.