Monthly Archives: October 2017

Season 29 News: The Director for “Grampy Can Ya Hear Me” has been announced

Episodes

The Director for the upcoming 5th episode of  season 29, titled “Grampy Can Ya Hear Me“, has been announced. The episodes will air on November 5, 2017.

Stay tuned for more new episode titles!

Don’t forget to visit our page on Season 29, as we always try to keep it up-to-date!

US ratings: Football lifts ‘Simpsons’ to top non-sport show of the night

Episodes
“Here, take the boy! Anything to keep the football boost!”

Lisa Simpson on Broadway: of course nothing is going to go smoothly. Yet, something did last Sunday night…

As usual for episodes with post-football coverage (Sunday’s had a 4.4 rating and 12.9 million viewers) beforehand, “The Simpsons” was boosted last Sunday, with the episode rising to 2.2/8 (2.15 unrounded) and 5.245 million viewers. 54% of the audience was aged 18-49 – 2.832 million.

That figure is up on last week‘s 1.4/5 and 3.261m, but down on the second episode last year – which also had a football lead-in – which scored 2.65/9 and 5.997m, yet had a lower lead in of 12.5 million (but higher 18-49 demo of 4.6).

The higher-than-usual figure also meant “The Simpsons” accomplished the feat of being the top non-sport show of the night among the 18-49 demographic on both Fox and all networks, and was fifth in overall viewership over all networks for non-sport shows – all this despite airing against an estimated 23 million audience from the other three main networks, once again, a large chunk being pre-football coverage.

An unusual element of Sunday’s schedule was that “Ghosted”, which airs after “The Simpsons” and provided an increased lead-in of 2.2 from 1.4, stayed static at 1.4, which it drew for its last episode. Another unusual element of the schedule was that the episode of “The Simpsons” on Sunday actually aired first in Canada!

Catch-up news time, and after three days of catch-up viewing, the season premiere episode grew by 0.2 to 1.6, and slid to third for that Sunday night on Fox, with “Family Guy” at 1.7 and “Ghosted” at 1.8. In viewers, it also added 507,000 to 3.769 million, this time above “Family Guy” (+768,000 to 3.565m) yet below “Ghosted” (+1.2m to 4.782m).

This Sunday’s episode doesn’t have a football lead-in, so expect it to be around 3-3.5m and below a 1.5 demo rating.

Sources:
TVBytheNumbers, ShowBuzzDaily, SpottedRatings, NoHomers.net

Season 29 News: The Director for “3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage” and the Writer for “Homer Is Where the Art Isn’t” have been announced

Episodes

The Director for the upcoming season 29 episode titled “3 Scenes Plus a Tag from a Marriage“, and the Writer for “Homer Is Where the Art Isn’t“, have been announced.

The episodes will probably air during the 29th broadcast season (2017/18 TV season).

Stay tuned for more new episode titles!

Don’t forget to visit our page on Season 29, as we always try to keep it up-to-date!

Season 29 News: A scheduled Air Date and the Writer for “Grampy Can Ya Hear Me” have been announced

Episodes

A scheduled Air Date and the Writer for the upcoming episode of season 29, titled “Grampa Can Ya Hear Me“, have been announced. The episode is scheduled to air on November 5, 2017.

Stay tuned for more new episode titles!

Don’t forget to visit our page on Season 29, as we always try to keep it up-to-date!

Season 29 News: A new special guest for “Springfield Splendor” has been announced

Episodes, Guest stars

A new Special Guest for the upcoming 2nd episode of season 29, titled “Springfield Splendor“, has been released by FOX. The episode airs this Sunday, October 8, 2017.

The episode will probably air during the 29th broadcast season (2017/18 TV season).

Stay tuned for more new episode titles!

Don’t forget to visit our page on Season 29, as we always try to keep it up-to-date!

US ratings: ‘Simpsons’ returns steady, but with lowest premiere viewership

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“It is true? Fox didn’t put us on next week with the football lead-in because they wanted fewer people to watch the non-canon episode?”

You mention October 1st and one thing dawns on everyone’s minds – how on earth is it autumn already? But with autumn, comes “The Simpsons”, and with October 1st came its second-ever season premiere in October; the last time that happened was with season 2 in 1990, the premiere episode of which had ten times the viewership of this season’s premiere. Moving on…

Sunday night’s premiere, which saw Homer and co go medieval on our… screens, scored a 1.4/5 demo rating (1.36 unrounded) – steady with last year’s premiere – and drew 3.261 million viewers – down from last year, and is the lowest-ever viewership for a season premiere. (55% of the episode’s viewers were aged 18-49 – around 1.8 million)

Furthermore, unlike last year, “The Simpsons” was not the highest-rated show of Fox’s (post-football) night – it had to share the honour in 18-49 ratings with, and come second in viewership to, new comedy “Ghosted”, which accrued a 1.4/5 figure and 3.58m viewers. On a positive note, “Simpsons” and “Ghosted” tied second for the night on broadcast TV among non-sport shows in the 18-49 demographic (in rounded figures of 1.4 each; in unrounded figures, ‘Simpsons’ pipped ‘Ghosted’ by 0.01)!

Despite some little negatives, “The Simpsons” returned to an OK demo figure on Sunday, which is somewhat surprising after some shaky figures towards the end of last season (multiple fractional ratings) – plus, Sunday’s episode had broadcast TV opposition of around 25 million, the predominance of those viewers being from overrunning and pre-match football coverage.

On an additional note, those watching Sunday’s episode may have seen the appeal at the end for donations for hurricane victims in Puerto Rico. One wonders if they’ll air it again this coming Sunday, where it will receive more exposure (the show has a football lead-in this time).

Until next Tuesday, folks…

Sources: ShowBuzzDaily, SpottedRatings, TVSeriesFinale