Tag: Ratings

On the eve of the show’s 500th episode, viewer interest in The Simpsons took a turn for the worst. A total of 4.33 million viewers watched Sunday night’s episode ‘The Daughter Also Rises’, giving it the not-so-prestigious honor of becoming the least-watched episode in the show’s history – a feat previously reached not so long ago by last year’s ‘The Great Simpsina’.

A total of 5.12 million viewers tuned in to see Sunday’s episode ‘Moe Goes From Rags To Riches’. This makes the episode the second-least watched so far in Season 23 – slightly improving over ‘Politically Inept with Homer Simpson’ which aired just under a month ago, with 5.11 million viewers. Unfortunately, that also puts Sunday’s episode among the five least-watched episodes of all time.

A total of 15.70 million viewers tuned in to watch ‘The D’oh-cial Network’ last night. You would be absolutely right for thinking that these are the best figures of the season – trebling the result of last week’s record breaking lows. Sadly it wasn’t the desire of all viewers to rekindle their love for The Simpsons on a night where it loosely parodied the movie ‘The Social Network’ – rather, millions of viewers stuck around after the NFL overrun – something that usually happens at least once a year and boosts figures for our favorite family.

A total of 5.11 million viewers watched Sunday night’s new episode ‘Politically Inept, with Homer Simpson’ – unfortunately this makes it the least-watched episode of the season and equal second lowest rating episode of all time, on par with Season 21’s ‘Million Dollar Maybe’. This comes during the tail end of the holiday period when there are less people watching TV.

A total of 6.45 million viewers tuned in to watch last night’s Christmas-themed + future episode ‘Holidays of Future Passed’. While down on last week’s impressive figures, they are still far off the lowest we’ve seen this season.

A total of 5.74 million viewers tuned in to watch Sunday’s episode ‘The Book Job’, a drop-off of almost 2 million people from last week. It becomes the least-watched episode so far this season. The competition was fierce, as the show was up against the American Music Awards on ABC (10.06 million at 8.00pm), 60 Minutes on CBS (13.29 million) and Sunday Night Football on NBC (13.2 million).

A total of 7.53 million viewers watched last night’s episode ‘The Food Wife’. Whilst these are the weakest figures to date this season, the drop is still quite small on last week. Fox then struggled for the remainder of the night, with ‘Allen Gregory’ receiving just 4.24 million viewers – it’s third stinker of a week in a row. Once again, the network failed to bounce back for the night, with 5.96 million tuning in to Family Guy, down from 7.06 million at this time last year.

A total of 7.97 million viewers watched last night’s episode ‘Replaceable You’. Although slightly lower than last week, these figures are keeping fairly consistent – we haven’t seen any big fluctuations yet this season.

A total of 8.01 million viewers tuned in to watch this year’s Treehouse of Horror episode. These figures are only slightly down on last year’s installment (8.20 million) and consistent with the last couple of years. Gone are the days where the Treehouse episode delivers a higher-than-average performance — these figures were slightly weaker than the Season premiere. That said, The Simpsons was still the highest rated show in the animation block for the night, so this is a reflection on smaller audiences in general rather than a decline in the show’s popularity.