Matt Groening’s heavily promoted appearance in The Simpsons failed to attract a larger-than-normal audience on Sunday night. The new episode titled My Big Fat Geek Wedding was watched by 9.1 million viewers, falling short of many of this season’s episodes. The rerun of The President Wore Pearls at 8:30pm attracted the same amount of viewers as the new episode, keeping Fox #1 for the hour in the 18-49 demographic.
All around for the night, it was a close battle between NBC and CBS, while Fox were no where to be seen in a distant 4th position finish. In the 18-49 demographic, NBC came out on top with Fox a close second. New episodes of The Simpsons will air every week from now on until the season finale on May 23rd.