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Early viewing figures for Fox’s Seth night show respectable viewing figures for last night’s special schedule. However, numbers were down across the board from the season averages. Family Guy was viewed by 7.4 million and 7.7 million in the 8pm and 9pm slots, respectively. The 8pm showing matched The Simpsons last figures in the same...

Three weeks into the new season and new comer The Cleveland Show has beaten The Simpsons, both on Fox, in the ratings for a second week! An impressive feat for the Family Guy spin-off. On Sunday night Cleveland managed 7.8 million viewers (a 14% drop on last week) whilst The Simpsons was watched by 7.5 million (an 18% drop). Family Guy is still...

In the UK BBC Three’s weekend of Family Guy was a big success for the channel reports Broadcast Now: “The seventh series of the satirical show kicked off on Sunday night at 10pm with a strong 828,000 (4.2%) for 25 minutes, followed by the second episode which gained a sizeable 893,000 (5.6%), making it the most watched multichannel...

Family Guy‘s return to Fox with the first in a string of new episodes on Sunday night was watched by the smallest audience of the season so far. According to EW.com Family Guy was watched by 7.2 million (season 7 premièred with 9.2 million viewers). American Dad managed an audience of 5.3 million viewers. EW.com point out that Daylight...

Speaking to TV Week Twentieth Century Fox Television co-chairman Gary Newman has revealed that American Dad is on course for renewal, saying, “we should have an order for season 5 very shortly.” Newman highlighted the growing success of the show, “[we] feel incredibly fortunate that the patience we’ve all exhibited with...

Sunday’s episode of Family Guy saw an 8.7 percent drop from the season première the previous week bringing in 8.4 million viewers for Fox. However, I Dream of Jesus — Sunday’s episode — managed to beat The Simpsons an hour earlier which had 7.4 million viewers, down 20 percent on last week. American Dad maintained its...

Sunday night saw the season premières of Family Guy and American Dad as part of Fox’s Animation Domination Sunday night line-up. According to EW.com, 9.2 million tuned in for Love Blactually (Family Guy‘s season 7 première) which was down 15 percent from last year’s première. Meanwhile, American Dad was up 13 percent from last...