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14 May 2012 14 Comments

Ratings: ‘Ned ‘N Edna’s Blend’ Hits New Low

With just one week remaining in Season 23, last night’s episode ‘Ned ‘N Edna’s Blend’ attracted just 4.00 million viewers – the lowest recorded viewers for a new episode on record. “When Ned suffers an accident at a play, he reveals that he and Edna are married. At the hospital, half the town intrudes on [...]

9 May 2012 1 Comment

Ratings: The Spy Who Learned Me

4.74 million viewers watched Sunday’s episode ‘The Spy Who Learned Me’, slightly down on last week’s episode. The episode again joins the bottom 5 viewed episodes of all time, placing at #2. “The Daughter Also Rises” (season 23) – 4.33 million “The Spy Who Learned Me” (season 23) – 4.74 million “Beware My Cheating Bart” [...]

1 May 2012 1 Comment

Ratings: A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again

Sunday night’s episode “A Totally Fun Thing Bart Will Never Do Again” had a total of 4.99 million viewers, up slightly on the last new episode “Beware My Cheating Bart”, but still not high enough to escape the dreaded least-watched episodes list. It sits in equal fourth place with Season 22′s “The Great Simpsina”. “The [...]

18 April 2012 1 Comment

Ratings: Beware My Cheating Bart

Sunday night’s episode “Beware My Cheating Bart” received 4.86 million viewers, down on the previous episode “Them, Robot” and unfortunately, the second least-watched episode on record. “The Daughter Also Rises” (season 23) – 4.33 million “Beware My Cheating Bart” (season 23) – 4.86 million “How I Wet Your Mother” (season 23) – 4.96 million “The [...]

19 March 2012 7 Comments

Ratings: Them, Robot

5.24 million viewers tuned in to last night’s episode “Them, Robot”.  This is a slight increase in viewership from the previous two episodes. Bob’s Burgers saw 4.39 million viewers.  Family Guy was the winner of the night on FOX with 5.67 million viewers.  American Dad rounded out the “animation domination” line up with 4.61 million [...]

13 March 2012 4 Comments

Ratings: How I Wet Your Mother

A total of 4.96 million viewers watched Sunday night’s episode “How I Wet Your Mother” – placing it as the second least-watched episode on record, of all-time. It’s still a fair way off the lowest of all time, which occurred a month ago with “The Daughter Also Rises”. “The Daughter Also Rises” (season 23) – 4.33 million [...]

7 March 2012 0 Comments

The Making Of The Episode That Conquered Prime Time

It seems a rarity these days that The Simpsons have a victory in the ratings. If one of the other networks are showing “event television”, we use this as an excuse to explain a lower than average performance. But The Simpsons have overshadowed event television in the past – we just need to cast our [...]

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