Author: Adam

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.