Apocalypse Cow aired last night to a healthy 7.69 million viewers. The show cemented FOX in second position at 8:00, sitting only behind Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and in front of Big Brother and Monk.

FOX was third overall for the night and second among adults 18 - 49. A brand new Family Guy at 9 rated 8.49 million viewers.

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When Bart joins the 4-H Club, he unexpectedly falls in love with a cow named Lou. But when Bart finds out that Lou has been sold to a slaughterhouse, he becomes determined to save him. Bart and Lisa free Lou from the slaughterhouse, and Bart gives the cow to Mary, a fellow 4-H Club member. However, Mary's father mistakenly believes Bart is giving them the cow as a dowry for Mary's hand in marriage. When Homer and Marge hear of Bart's engagement, they devise a plan to save Lou and free Bart from his marriage.

A promotional image for Any Given Sundance, airing May 4, has been revealed.

Film director Jim Jarmusch guest-voices as himself. Lisa creates a documentary about the Simpson family for a school project, and is over the moon when it's accepted in the Sundance Film Festival. But at the premiere, Homer, Marge and Bart are embarrassed by the candid, behind-the-scenes look at their lives.

Australia, this one's for you. The Simpsons has been notably absent from Channel Ten in 2008, with the 6:00pm daily slot on hold for the first time in quite a while. With the writers strike, Ten held off airing new episodes in February when the season usually begins.

The good news is, new episodes resume at 7.30pm Tuesdays starting May 6. The show will resume from Season 19, with 'He Loves To Fly And He D'oh's' airing in the first slot.

While this is good news for fans, the bad news is the Friday repeat slot will be dropped the same week for Big Brother Friday Night Live.

We're just as desperate for news on the next Simpsons DVD box set as you are, so naturally, any news on the matter is worth noting. And today, TVShowsOnDVD have done just that, reporting of word from a reliable source that The Complete Season Eleven will hit the stores in August, a full year after Season Ten was released. The reason for the delay and the skipping of a release in December 2007 is in part due to The Simpsons Movie release as well as the writers strike which halted the production of episode commentaries.

August is not an official release date, but it's as close as we have to any word so far. We're expecting an official announcement of release date and the highly anticipated new box art will be available within a month. More when we hear of it!

A total of 6.90 million viewers watched the return of Lurleen Lumpkin in last night's episode 'Papa Don't Leech'. This puts the episode as the third least-watched on record, pushing Homerazzi (6.91 million) into fourth place. Marge Gamer (6.4 million) is second-least watched and The Way We Weren't remains the lowest figures, with 6.2 million.

FOX was fourth overall for the night and third among adults 18 - 49. The Simpsons was in third place at 8.00 behind CBS's 60 Minutes and ABC's Oprah's Big Give. 6.54 million viewers watched a rerun of Family Guy at 9. A rerun of Love, Springfieldian Style airs next Sunday night.

BOOBIES! Offended? You shouldnt be. After all, the above imagery is more wholesome and less offensive than any episode of The Simpsons. At least, that's the verdict in Venezuela, where Baywatch Hawaii will replace The Simpsons, which is being taken off the air because it may be inappropriate for children.

"It had to be taken off," said Elba Guillen, spokesperson for the network which airs the series at 11am weekdays. "They consider it to be a series that isn't appropriate for that time because it isn't appropriate for children." The regulatory agency didn't specify which elements of the program were deemed offensive, but said showing the animated cartoon series at that hour could violate national regulations prohibiting "messages that go against the whole education of boys, girls and adolescents."

Promo image for Papa Don't Leech has been released. The episode airs on April 13.

Lisa discovers that the town of Springfield has not collected millions of dollars worth of taxes. As a result, the town starts collecting from most of the evaders and the only remaining debtor is Lurleen Lumpkin (Beverly D'Angelo). As the police try to track her down, Lurleen stays with the Simpson family. Lurleen is reunited with her father who then sells all her songs to the Dixie Chicks (guesting as themselves).

The Simpsons Ride is opening this Spring at both Universal Orlando Resort and Universal Studios Hollywood. It is a motion simulator ride that tilts, pitches, dips, and twists in sync with action projected onto a towering 80 foot dome. Today, the official website promoting the ride has gone live. At SimpsonsRide.com, you can view more information about the attraction, purchase tickets, play games, and enter competitions, with downloads coming soon. Check it out!

Simpsons Comics #140: (Out Now!)
An enterprising Bart starts-up a lawnmowing business that muscles out the competition in the neighborhood, but does he have the muscle to beat Groundskeeper Willie or the smarts to outmow Cletus at the Duff Grasscutters Open?

Futurama Comics #36: (Out Now!)
Fry, Leela, and Bender are off on another adventure, when they make a delivery to New New New England, a planet very much like Victorian England where they find themselves in the midst of a mystery that needs solving and a serial deleter, Jak the Ripper, who is erasing the memories of unsuspecting robots.