Ratings Are In: AniDom 2014 finales plummet as compared to 2013
A lot of this has to do with the awful time-shifts, as last year shows like Bob’s Burgers, American Dad, and Family Guy were in completely different time-slots, but the finale numbers on FOX are rather alarming. Here’s what Deadline.com had to say:
Fox had finale fever too with Bob’s Burgers (0.9/4), American Dad (1.2/4), The Simpsons (1.6/5) and Family Guy (2.0/5) all ending their seasons last night.Bob’s and American Dad were both even with last week. With a silent character briefly vocal, the Matt Groening created series ended its 25th season also even with last week while, with a bit of time travel Family Guy wrapped up its 12th season with a 5% slip from it May 11 show. Bob’s cratered 43% from last year’s finale on May 12, 2013 while American Dad went down 36%. Finale-to-finale,Family Guy down 20% from last year while The Simpsons fell 23% .
As you can see, the earlier start times for both Bob’s Burgers and American Dad did no favors. The drops for Family Guy and The Simpsons are a bit easier to figure out as both shows had hour long finales this time last year with The Simpsons having Seth MacFarlane as a guest star. This time around there wasn’t much flash for the finales and I think it showed.
Next week at the same time? Get ready for a snore fest…NASCAR.
"There are also other characters that come and go (also owned by the Warner Bros. Discovery conglomerate media company)."
Huh. Is that just referring to other characters from the show itself, or is this implying that the new season is going to have cameos from other WBD IPs