Ratings Are In: AniDom 2014 finales plummet as compared to 2013

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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. 

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