Yearly Archives: 2016

Confusion amounts, numbers like scrambled eggs

Episodes
“I hate scrambled eggs…. without bacon in them.”

Updated post here: ‘Simpsons’ top for Fox, rules the roost outside of sports and debate. Didn’t want to delete in case anyone had bookmarked this page.

Original post:

*At present, last night’s new The Simpsons is sitting at 1.5/5 in the 18-49 ratings (down from last week, as is expected for a non-NFL-boosted episode) as is a repeat an hour before – however, Fox decided to label that 7pm repeat (“Halloween of Horror“) as new, and in some areas, local NFL overruns completely cocked up the schedule (at least one Fox affiliate in Los Angeles ran the repeat during the broadcast of the new ep to the West Coast), leaving the repeat with 4.326 million viewers… and the new ep with 3.386. So the new ep got beaten by a 7pm repeat which rated better than when it did last year.

Yeah, I’m waiting for the final numbers.

One thing I can tell you is that the presidential debate definitely ruled the roost last night all in, yet the biggest individual telecast was Sunday Night Football which peaked at over 6.6 and 20 million viewers.

Tomorrow, expect a proper ratings post.

Tapped Out: 4 Years Infographic released by EA

Tapped Out

14495276_1110522922350475_6600945146293030757_ninfographicEA has just released on their website the infographic on the 4 years of The Simpsons: Tapped Out.

It’s almost 5 years now, having the game being released for the first time in February 16, 2016 in Europe on iOs, and have reached 135 Content Updates, with the Treehouse of Horror XXVII event still going.

It’s been 4 long years and the game is still strong! To more years of fun and tapping!

Get Your FREE The Simpsons Google Cardboard Viewer!

Merchandise


Residents of the United States can get hold of a The Simpsons Google Cardboard viewer, for free! These are being released in connection with the 600th episode, “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, and the virtual reality couch gag for the episode, Planet of the Couches.

To get your viewer for free, all you need to do is go to simpsonscardboard.com and sign up and order it. This is only open to residents of the United States and isn’t available to anyone else in the world.

For a full gallery of designs, see our article.

The Simpsons to Have a Virtual Reality Couch Gag!

Episodes, Miscellaneous, Promotional Images

VR couch gag
The Simpsons stil keep surprising us every day! They will have a Virtual Reality couch gag for its 600th episode!

At the start of “Treehouse of Horror XXVII“, the show’s 600th episode airing on October 16, fans owning a Google Cardboard will be able to watch the couch gag in VR! During the 45-second 2D couch gag, a url will appear and, by following that url, fans will be able to watch a 3-minutes version of the Couch gag.

VR Compatibility

According to EW, “Fans can enter the Simpsonized world of VR via the Google Spotlight Stories app and using the Google Cardboard viewer and their smart phone (iOS or Android). If interest parties don’t have the viewer, they can access a limited version of the experience by turning their phones in different directions”.

Source

EW.com

‘Simpsons’, other Fox shows up due to football, by far tops night excluding sports

Episodes

I think Marge and the gang deserved it.
The chalkboard gag in The Simpsons last night read “I Will Stop Losing 50% of My NFL Lead-In”. Well, technically, it did and didn’t.

Thanks to NFL overrun (7.7/30, 22.7m) and The OT (4.6/16, 12.49m) in the Bob’s Burgers slot, The Simpsons reached its highest 18-49 rating and total viewer rating since last season’s NFL-inflated episode, “Teenage Mutant Milk-Caused Hurdles“, with a 2.649/9 and 5.997 million viewers (adjusted up slightly from 5.964 million viewers) on Sunday (October 2) night, making it the top show excluding sports by 0.9. This means last night’s episode was up 1.2 (a boost which actually is higher than the ratings a few episodes got last season; nearly 86%) and 2.6 million viewers (again, a boost higher than the actual ratings for some shows last season; just over 78%) from last week, the season premiere. However, The Simpsons was down from last year‘s second episode, 2.7/8 and 6.016m.

The Simpsons came 11th in the week in adults 18-49 (for the main five networks’ shows), with 3.399 million of its viewers in that demographic.

Elsewhere, Fox’s evening was also boosted, with Son of Zorn up 0.5 and Family Guy up 0.4 to get a 1.637/5 and 1.655/5 respectively (FG up from 1.621 unrounded), and 3.638m and 3.468m in total viewers respectively (Zorn adjusted up from prelims, FG had a miniscule drop). The Last Man on Earth barely budged to a 1.005/3 (up 0.1) and 2.496m.

The largest rating of the night was FOX’s NFL overrun from 7-7:47pm with 7.7/30 and 22.697 million viewers, but it is worth mentioning all Fox shows were against football on NBC, which averaged 6.689/22 and 18.057m, which may have deflated their, still great, ratings. Due to NBC’s football, Fox came second on the night, ahead of CBS by 2.3/8.

Sources: TVByTheNumbers, SpottedRatings and ShowBuzzDaily

UPDATED 29th December 2016 to include previously excluded unrounded final numbers.