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.