While no official release date has been announced for The Simpsons Season 15 in the United States, fans are widely speculating that the date will be December 4th, 2012.
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Homer’s Knockout Blow For Cowell
On the eve of the airing of ‘Smart And Smarter’ in the UK, Pop/American Idol, and X-Factor judge Simon Cowell has spoken out to the media saying that being a guest star on The Simpsons was the most “intimidating” thing he had ever done. As British viewers prepare to watch their born and bred local star in animated form, Cowell says he was “very proud” to be part of the show. “It’s genuinely my favourite programme. When I got the telephone call I thought it was a wind-up but it was true,” he said. “It was the most intimidating thing I have ever done in my life. I only had one condition – make me handsome and make me young – as you can see that’s been achieved.” The episode airs on Sky One on Sunday at 6:30pm. Read More >>>
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Star Studded Super Bowl Event
If you thought last year’s Super Bowl half-time extravaganza was wild, see what happens when Homer is running the show! In The Simpsons post-Super Bowl XXXIX episode, “Homer and Ned’s Hail Mary Pass” airing Sunday, Feb. 6, after Homer inadvertently performs a wild crowd-pleasing dance at a local carnival, he is hired by several prolific sports figures including LeBron James, Warren Sapp, Yao Ming and Michelle Kwan, guest-starring as themselves, to choreograph their victory dances. After his dances prove successful, Homer is tapped to choreograph the Super Bowl halftime show. Panicked the night before the event, Homer enlists the help of his neighbor, Ned Flanders, and together they put on a non-violent, deeply meaningful halftime show that America chastises for its blatant display of decency.
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Ratings: Fraudcast News
Season openers and finales tend to bring in the big figures in the tv world, but Sundays season 15 finale ‘Fraudcast News’ failed to deliver. 9.2 million people watched the Burns themed episode, down 4.2 million on last years season finale double.
With the season over, the ratings this year have been disappointing overall. 16.2 million viewers watched the season premiere, while a couple of weeks ago the show achieved its lowest figure for a new episode ever. The finale was outrated by ABC and CBS’s big guns ‘Extreme Makeover: Home Edition’ and ‘Cold Case’ which will remain in their 8pm Sunday timeslots next year. Lets hope the Season 16 premiere in November can regain some of its lost viewers.
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Season Finale: Fraudcast News
By the end of tonight, Season 15 will be over. While some might talk of the decline in quality, this season’s final episode titled Fraudcast News sounds like one of the better ones. Homer causes an avalanche that buries Mr. Burns. He makes it back to his mansion, only to turn on his TV and hear Kent Brockman refer to him as a greedy tycoon, so he vows to “change this town’s accurate impression of me.” As he buys every news business in town, he runs up against Lisa, who has started a newspaper. Lisa’s example inspires many of the residents of Springfield to start their own newspapers. “Instead of one big-shot controlling all the media,” Homer says, “now there’s a thousand freaks Xeroxing their worthless opinions.” It’s the last new episode until November, so don’t miss it!
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The Simpsons’ Winning Formula
The finale of The Simpsons’ 15th season airing at 8pm Sunday includes pointed social satire, Capraesque small-town sentiment, broad physical humor and sly self-referential jokes. What it doesn’t have, in a time when sitcoms like “Friends” and “Frasier” featured plot arcs that played out over the course of a year, is any reference to the fact that it’s the last show of the season. In The Simpsons, everything is neatly tied up at the end of an episode. Bart is forever in fourth grade, and Maggie, the baby, will never talk. That consistency is one reason the show is one of the longest-running sitcoms in history. As actors on live-action programs age, “the viewer looks at it and says, ‘The show isn’t the show I loved 10 years ago,”‘ said Al Jean, the executive producer. “That doesn’t happen to us.” Since the writers long ago used up the obvious stories about the family, many plots now focus on the secondary characters who populate their hometown. Read More >>>
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Ratings: Bart-Mangled Banner
The end of season ratings slump continued this week. A viewer figure was not available this week (story will be edited it one arrives) but the episode titled ‘Bart-Mangled Banner’ got beaten by most of its main competition.
NBC moved into first at 8pm with the 6.9/12 for the second hour of “Dateline.” ABC was up to second with the 6.3/11 for “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition.” CBS dropped to third with the first hour of “Helter Skelter.” FOX was fourth with “The Simpsons” (5.0/9) and “That ’70s Show” (4.7/8). The 9:30 Simpsons repeat also came in fourth place, which combined with other programming cemented Fox as the #4 network for the night. The season finale of The Simpsons airs this Sunday.
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Bart-Mangled Banner Airs Tonight
The Simpsons ratings will be put to the test tonight with the second-to-last episode of Season 15 airing on Fox. Its competition is nothing that should leave the show with a figure similar to last weeks disappointing effort. The episode titled Bart-Mangled Banner hasn’t shown huge promise in description and previews, but as last week displayed, a good episode doesn’t necessarily mean good ratings. In the episode, Bart really is a victim of circumstance when he appears to moon the flag, but Marge’s defense of him paints the whole family as un-American and they are thrown in jail. A repeat of The Wandering Juvie airs soon after at the special time of 9:30pm this week. Keep those figures up, don’t miss The Simpsons tonight.
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All-Time Low For The Simpsons
Our last four or so ratings reports weren’t much to be proud of, but this week is the icing on the cake. The Simpsons episode “The Way We Weren’t” finished up on Sunday with a record-low Nielsen figure for a new episode. Only 6.2 million viewers tuned in to the flashback episode, down 3.1 million viewers on last week’s already abysmal performance. At 9pm, Malcolm In The Middle also suffered an all-time low of 5.9 million viewers.
It’s plainly obvious that viewers this week switched over to CBS for the finale of “Survivor: All-Stars”, which brought in 24.1 million viewers, peaking at 25 million for the reunion special that followed. So Fox wont be panicking over the figures, but there is cause for alarm as the season’s performance as a whole has been struggling. It’ll be interesting to see how the next two episodes fare.
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The Way We Weren’t Airs Tonight
Three episodes to go, another one down tonight. Here’s a rundown of what to expect in tonight’s episode titled “The Way We Weren’t”. “When Homer admits that Marge was not his first kiss, he recounts the story of his first smooch at summer camp with an anonymous girl ? who turns out to be Marge! Following their first kiss, young Homer and Marge planned to meet again, but Homer accidentally returned to the wrong camp and wound up at Camp Flab-Away ? a fat camp for young boys. Marge admits to Homer that believing her first kiss had stood her up caused her 30 years of heartbreak. But soon they discover something from their past that proves their love was destined.” It’s a flashback episode with promise, followed by a rerun of “Marge Vs. Singles, Seniors, Childless Couples and Teens and Gays.” You don’t want to miss it.
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Simpsons No Longer Invincible
In our weekly ratings reports we keep mentioning a drop on last seasons Simpsons episodes. This article takes a closer look. “While The Simpsons remains as smart as ever, ratings aren?t at a peak. In fact, the show finished behind ABC’s “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” head to head in 18-49s on Sunday, the first time an original episode wasn?t first in the 18-49 demographic in nearly three years. Among younger viewers, Simpsons still does well but doesn?t possess the aura of invincibility it once did on Sundays. Among 9-14s, Simpsons was still the highest-rated show on Sunday with a 5.3 rating for the 8:30 p.m. episode but was followed closely by “Drake & Josh” on Nickelodeon and “Home Edition” on ABC. Next season if “Home Edition” stays in the same time slot, chances are it could start edging even closer among teens, where The Simpsons was Fox’s top-rated sitcom last season.” Read More >>>
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Ratings: Simple Simpson
The ratings aren’t improving for Fox and The Simpsons alike. Still down on Season 14’s ratings, Simple Simpson scored a total of 9.3 million viewers on Sunday night. NBC came out on top amongst the adult demographic, while Fox and ABC came equal second with CBS lagging behind. In total viewers though, CBS was first and NBC second.