The overnight ratings showed that 4.41 million viewers watched The Simpsons in its 8pm slot, however, the reality of the situation is that many Fox affiliates had to break into regular programming to show President Obama’s address to the nation.
Author: Adam

New Episode: To Cur, With Love
Airing tonight, the final new episode for 2012, To Cur, With Love. When a fire at the retirement home forces Grampa to move back in with the Simpsons, Homer throws out his back on moving day.

Ratings: The Day The Earth Stood Cool
A total of 7.50 million viewers watched Sunday’s episode “The Day The Earth Stood Cool” – respectable numbers, again boosted by Fox’s NFL overrun and post-game lineup.

New Episode: The Day The Earth Stood Cool
Homer wants a younger, hipper image. So he starts hanging out with Terrence and Emily, his cool new neighbors from Portland, OR. But Marge finds their trendy parenting methods extreme and Bart quickly realizes their son, T-Rex, is super-pretentious.

Ratings: A Tree Grows In Springfield
‘A Tree Grows In Springfield’ was watched by a healthy 7.53 million viewers, aided by an NFL overrun and post-match show ‘The OT’. Numbers dropped from there onwards, with Bob’s Burgers on 4.73 million viewers, Family Guy with 5.76 million, and The Cleveland Show with 4.32 million viewers.

New Episode: A Tree Grows In Springfield
Homer wins a MyPad at the school auction and Steve Mobbs, who is now in heaven, talks to Homer through it. Homer goes into a funk when he breaks the myPad, until Ned Flanders discovers a miracle tree in the Simpsons’ back garden.

Ratings: Penny-Wiseguys
5.18 million viewers watched Sunday night’s episode ‘Penny-Wiseguys’ – the least-watched episode so far this series, but still good enough to stay out of the danger zone.

New Episode: Penny-Wiseguys
Airing tonight throughout North America is a new episode titled ‘Penny-Wiseguys’.

Ratings: Gone Abie Gone
With inaccurate overnight ratings due to a late start time (8:20am), we had to wait for the final broadcast figures this week, which show that 6.86 million viewers watched Sunday’s episode ‘Gone Abie Gone’.

New Episode: Gone Abie Gone
A new episode titled ‘Gone Abie Gone’ airs tomorrow November 11. When Grampa escapes from his retirement home, Homer and Marge frantically try to track him down by following clues that reveal secrets in Grampa’s past, including that he worked at a local restaurant with composer Marvin Hamlisch

Ratings: Adventures in Baby-Getting
A total of 5.65 million viewers watched last night’s episode “Adventures in Baby-Getting”, which makes it the least-watched of the three episodes from this season so far. The episode suffered a delay, originally due to be shown a month ago.

Ratings: Treehouse Of Horror XXIII
This year’s installment of the Treehouse of Horror series rated 6.52 million viewers, down on Season 23′s Treehouse of Horror XXII (8.01 million) and Season 22′s Treehouse of Horror XXI (8.20 million). It was the least-watched Halloween episode on record (last years was second least-watched) – hardly a surprise given this is also the furthest the Treehouse episode has aired out from Halloween.