RATINGS: ANIMATION DOMINATION 4/29
Yep, the ratings are in and Family Guy is looking great. Everyone else stayed the same but despite the fact that Cleveland Show had Fergie and Darren Criss as guest stars, evidently it was still no match to the last time we had a brand-new American Dad. Check the numbers after the jump!
According to Deadline.com, the ratings are in!
At 7:30 PM, Fox’s The Cleveland Show (1.5/5) was up 25% from four weeks ago. The Simpsons (2.3/7) was even with its last original two weeks ago as was Bob’s Burgers (1.9/5). Family Guy (2.8/7) was up 12% from its last new episode four weeks ago, while another episode of Cleveland Show (1.9/5) at 9:30 PM was down a tenth from the delivery of American Dad in the time slot four weeks ago.
It makes perfect sense if you think about it. Of all the properties FOX has on Animation Domination, The Cleveland Show is probably the least popular, so when you try to air two episodes of the least popular animated series this is what happens. American Dad returns next Sunday night on FOX, it will be interesting to see how that fares!
There's got to be some kind of twist that's going to happen with this. I don't know if they're setting up an April Fool's joke now or what's going on, but it seems too strange that they'd suddenly reverse on doing a fourth and fifth season after the show was already renewed and they were even just talking about working on those seasons like a couple months ago or something. Or maybe the two episodes yet to release will secretly somehow each be like a "season" in themselves?