Personally, I am shocked The Simpsons is still getting the ratings it does. The show is just a shell of what it what once. When is the their mindless audience going to realize this and walk away. It's been years since there have been quality episodes and some of the current ones are actually atrocious.

I know Marc is always trying to retire King of the Hill, but what about The Simpsons? Enough is enough. We have the good episodes in syndication, why do we need the new crap?

The answer is money of course. It still makes buttloads so who cares about the quality, right. As for King of the Hill, I feel the quality of writing on that show is far superior to The Simpsons these days. Yet, their rating are always lower. Why? Maybe it's because KOTH is CONSTANTLY changes time periods.

The fact that their ratings are still close to The Simpsons should be applauded, since they've been on at 7pm, 7:30pm, 8:30pm back to 7:30pm, back to 8:30. What other show has been through that many changes (each year) and still pulled ANY audience?

But the truth is they do dip after The Simpons. So why keep KOTH on? Of course, the quality of the show is not reason enough. So how about because it makes a profit for the studio through syndication. And that's what it's all about anyway. Not just the ratings. Not just the quality of the show. The bottom line.

So it will be back next year whether Mr. Berman likes it or not.

3.5 in the demos. Of course they'll keep the Simpsons. As long as people are still watching it, it will be there.

looks like EM was new:

from abc:
Fast Facts for Sunday, March 9, 2008
(Fast Affiliate Live + Same Day Ratings)
ABC Dominates Sunday in Viewers and Young Adults, Ranking
No. 1 in Each Half-Hour of the Evening Among Adults 18-49

ABC Airs Sunday's Top 2 TV Shows with "Home Edition" and "Oprah's Big Give"

"America's Funniest Home Videos" Ranks No. 1 in Adults 18-49 from 7-8pm

ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" Dominates the 8 O'clock Hour

"Oprah's Big Give" Towers Over its 9pm Time Period, Retaining All of its Lead-in Among Adults 18-49 and Building its Audience Across Each of the Key Women Demos

ABC's "Here Come the Newlyweds" Wins the 10pm Hour in Viewers and Young Adults, Beating its Nearest Competition by 64% in the Key Adult 18-49 Sales Demo

Sunday Primetime (7:00-11:00 p.m.)
ABC won its third consecutive Sunday night in viewers and young adults, beating its nearest competitors by 1.7 million viewers (9.9 million vs. 8.2 million - CBS) and by 31% in Adults 18-49 (3.4/9 vs. 2.6/7 - Fox). ABC won all 4 hours during Sunday's prime among Adults 18-49, delivering the No. 1 position in each half-hour in the key sales demo.

* ABC claimed the Top 2 TV programs on Sunday in Total Viewers and Adults 18-49, with "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" and "Oprah's Big Give."

"America's Funniest Home Videos" (7:00-8:00 p.m.)
ABC's "America's Funniest Home Videos" ranked No. 1 during the 7 o'clock hour in Adults 18-49 (1.9/6).

* Working against the impact of the time adjustment one hour forward to daylight savings time, "Funniest Home Videos" saw its audience build from start to finish by 1.6 million viewers (5.9 million to 7.5 million) and by 38% in Adults 18-49 (1.6/5 to 2.2/7). With the change to daylight savings time, overall Household TV usage in the hour declined -7% week to week (Hut levels = 56.1% vs. 60.4%) and Adult 18-49 usage dropped -12% (AD18-49 Put level = 31.3% vs. 35.5%) from the prior Sunday.

"Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" (8:00-9:00 p.m.)
Winning the 8 o'clock hour, ABC's "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" defeated its nearest competition in its time period by 2.7 million viewers (12.4 million vs. 9.7 million - NBC) and by 25% in Adults 18-49 (4.0/11 vs. 3.2/9 - Fox).

"Oprah's Big Give" (9:00-10:00 p.m.)
For the second week in a row, ABC's "Oprah's Big Give" dominated its 9 o'clock time period, defeating its closest competition by 3.9 million viewers (11.8 million vs. 7.9 million - CBS) and by 25% in Adults 18-49 (4.0/10 vs. 3.2/8 - Fox).

* "Oprah's Big Give" exhibited perfect 100% retention of its Adult 18-49 lead-in, and built on "Home Edition" across each of the key women demographics: W18-34 +5% (4.3/12 vs. 4.1/12), W18-49 +6% (5.3/13 vs. 5.0/13) and W25-54 +9% (6.3/14 vs. 5.8/14).

"Here Come the Newlyweds" (10:00-11:00 p.m.)
ABC's "Here Come the Newlyweds" won its time period for the second consecutive week in Total Viewers (8.9 million) and Adults 18-49 (3.6/9). In fact the new ABC unscripted series dominated the time period among Adults 18-49, topping second-place NBC by 64% (2.2/6 - "L&O: SVU - R) and third-place CBS by 89% (1.9/5 - "Dexter").

* "Here come the Newlyweds" was up from its week-ago debut in Adults 18-34 (3.2/9 vs. 3.1/9) and Men 18-34 (2.6/7 vs. 1.8/5), winning its slot on both counts.

I watched this. It was good.

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One week earlier, Unhitched debuted with a similarly disappointing 5.77 million viewers and a 2.6/ 6 in the demo.

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"Here come the Newlyweds" was up from its week-ago debut in Adults 18-34 (3.2/9 vs. 3.1/9) and Men 18-34 (2.6/7 vs. 1.8/5), winning its slot on both counts.

Wow! Considering the overall drop of their Sunday lineup, Newlyweds building in A18-34 and significantly in Men 18-34 has got to be an encouraging sign. I enjoyed last night's episode quite a bit!
On the other hand, the EM:HE and especially OBG drops have to be of concern, with or without the time change...

These are good ratings. Lots of people watched these.

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Originally posted by Marc Berman:
-Ratings Breakdown:
ABC won this second Sunday in March in both total viewers and adults 18-49. But week two of non-scripted hours Oprah’s Big Give and Here Come the Newlyweds lost steam. Airing out of a repeat of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (Viewers: #1: 12.36 million; A18-49: #1, 4.0/11 at 8 p.m.), Oprah’s Big Give still dominated the 9-10 p.m. time period, with 11.83 million viewers and a 4.1/10 among adults 18-49. Comparably, however, that was down by 3.85 million viewers and 23 percent among adults 18-49 from it’s week-ago series-opener (Viewers: 15.68 million; A18-49: 5.3/13 on March 2, 2008).

Here Come the Newlyweds followed with an also dominant 8.91 million viewers and a 3.6/ 9 among adults 18-49 -- down by 1.10 million viewers and 12 percent in the demo from its debut from one week earlier (Viewers: 10.01 million; A18-49: 4.1/11 on March 2).

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Aliens in America (Viewers: 1.17 million; A18-49: 0.4/ 1),

It is a real shame that this first rate comedy is going unnoticed. Last night's episode was very funny. Crossbow hunting accident with Dad, the way the daughter talks back to her mother, and the way that 'aptitude tests' get obsessed over. All very good send ups on the real world.

You forgot about the "Nutty Co-worker" and the "Snooping Next Door Neighbor".

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Originally posted by Obveeus:

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Originally posted by Marc Berman:
Aliens in America (Viewers: 1.17 million; A18-49: 0.4/ 1),

It is a real shame that this first rate comedy is going unnoticed. Last night's episode was very funny. Crossbow hunting accident with Dad, the way the daughter talks back to her mother, and the way that 'aptitude tests' get obsessed over. All very good send ups on the real world.

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Originally posted by Obveeus:

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Originally posted by Marc Berman:
Aliens in America (Viewers: 1.17 million; A18-49: 0.4/ 1),

It is a real shame that this first rate comedy is going unnoticed. Last night's episode was very funny. Crossbow hunting accident with Dad, the way the daughter talks back to her mother, and the way that 'aptitude tests' get obsessed over. All very good send ups on the real world.

Last night's episode was horrible.

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20 years old or not, repeats or not for Simpsons to be beaten by a FG repeat is embarassing

And by that standard, how embarassed should Big Brother be?

FG had the younger audience pretty much to itself. Repeats of old-skewing shows, and repeats of CW sitcoms aimed at the African American audiences. Where else were they going to go?

The Simpsons anchored FOX's Sunday night, as it has been doing for a very long time now.

And for all the whining about how much it's declined, The Simpsons is still better and funnier than most of the overpriced low-rated pablum that people defend here.

And I still won't shed a tear when it's canceled.

5-10 years from now.

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:
You forgot about the "Nutty Co-worker" and the "Snooping Next Door Neighbor".

No co-workers or nutty neighbors exist. The closest they have is the high school princial, but you are welcome to keep watching your CBS reruns for the 4th or 5th time around hoping that you can finally solve that murder mystery before they do.

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Originally posted by Obveeus:

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Originally posted by TV-aholic:
You forgot about the "Nutty Co-worker" and the "Snooping Next Door Neighbor".

No co-workers or nutty neighbors exist. The closest they have is the high school princial, but you are welcome to keep watching your CBS reruns for the 4th or 5th time around hoping that you can finally solve that murder mystery before they do.

Don't worry, I will.
They are at least 4 or 5 times more entertaining than AiA.

AiA might do better had it originated on "The N"

Crap, I forgot Aliens was on last night. I wish the show would of done better in the ratings. Hopefully the CW at least lets it finish its run. What else could they air? (Aliens did improve from last week though)

I think the problem with FOX's line-up is people dont know if it's new or a repeat. Last week on a NEW episode of Family Guy it had the same ratings it did as this week's REPEAT episode. I think FOX should just air repeats until all of the animated comedies have new episodes ready. (Save Unhitched from being cancelled too...with such a weak viewership of FG, it doesnt help Unhitched)

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So what do you think of HBO's latest pickup? It's...interesting to say the least (I'm a librarian, and the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency books do go out- but I don't know if it'll translate well to TV.

It will be interesting. These novels are popular, but not as popular as the Patterson novels that the Women's Murder Club is based off of. I'm a librarian too and Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich are the most popular mystery authors here. I wonder if someone will ever make those into a series?

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I'm a librarian too and Sue Grafton and Janet Evanovich are the most popular mystery authors here. I wonder if someone will ever make those into a series?

I always felt like Sue Grafton's novels would make for a great tv series, or a series of tv movies!