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A total of 8.97 million viewers watched last night’s new episode ‘Lisa Simpson, This Isn’t Your Life’. These are the highest figures so far this season, which is great news coming off the back of an official announcement regarding the renewal up to Season 23. The numbers were helped by a Football overrun, but certainly shows that there is a casual audience out there that is prepared to watch new episodes of The Simpsons.

A total of 8.20 million viewers watched this year’s belated-Halloween special, Treehouse Of Horror XXI. Unfortunately, this makes it the least watched Treehouse Of Horror episode on record. Below are the figures from the last six years, which demonstrate that an expected increase in viewers based on past trends did not eventuate this year.

The Simpsons pulled its lowest figures for the season so far on Sunday night. 6.72 million viewers watched new episode ‘MoneyBART’. While these figures are still a million away from danger territory, the worrying signs start to appear when you compare viewership to last season. In Season 21, the show did not go below 7 million viewers until January 31st’s ‘Million Dollar Maybe’. From then on, the show failed to recover, posting figures between 5 and 6.3 million for the rest of the season. On the positive side, the show still received higher-than-average figures last week with ‘Loan-a-Lisa’, and the show is bound to recover, as it always does, for the very next new episode “Treehouse Of Horror XXI” which airs November 7.