Schedules Plus, Fox Sunday

Schedules Plus is another innovative application of the historical ratings statistic A18-49+. I hope this will be the ultimate resource for comparing the evolution of shows, networks and timeslots over time, complete with ratings numbers that make a fair adjustment for the collective decline. Right now this only includes programs aired in the fall. Much more about the process that went into this at the bottom.

At the beginning of the A18-49+ era, The Simpsons was on a ratings island on Sunday, significantly outrating a bunch of weak/waning comedies. But Fox solidified its Sunday lineup with the 2005 resurrection of Family Guy and successfully accompanied it with fellow Seth MacFarlane show American Dad! Those three have remained in place for nearly a decade, though Dad!'s run on Fox ended after the 2013-14 season.

Fox Sunday

	8:00	8:30	9:00	9:30	Avg
2001-02	The Simpsons	Malcolm in the Middle	The X-Files		124
	143	141	107
	142
2002-03	The Simpsons	King of the Hill	Malcolm in the Middle	Andy Richter Controls the Universe	113
	148	124	107	72
	136		90
2003-04	The Simpsons	The Bernie Mac Show	Malcolm in the Middle	Arrested Development	94
	125	93	89	67
	109		78
2004-05	The Simpsons	Arrested Development	My Big Fat Obnoxious Boss		69
	110	71	47
	91
2005-06	The Simpsons	The War at Home	Family Guy	American Dad!	101
	115	91	105	92
	103		99
2006-07	The Simpsons	American Dad!	Family Guy	The War at Home	104
	113	104	115	84
	108		99
2007-08	The Simpsons	King of the Hill	Family Guy	American Dad!	114
	120	96	144	96
	108		120
2008-09	The Simpsons	King of the Hill	Family Guy	American Dad!	109
	112	96	132	97
	104		114
2009-10	The Simpsons	The Cleveland Show	Family Guy	American Dad!	118
	119	112	137	105
	116		121
2010-11	The Simpsons	The Cleveland Show	Family Guy	American Dad!	123
	126	118	140	106
	122		123
2011-12	The Simpsons	Allen Gregory	Family Guy	American Dad!	107
	121	83	128	97
	102		112
2012-13	The Simpsons	Bob's Burgers	Family Guy	American Dad!	110
	118	92	128	101
	105		115
2013-14	The Simpsons	Bob's Burgers	Family Guy	American Dad!	113
	118	105	124	107
	112		115
2014-15	The Simpsons	Brooklyn Nine-Nine	Family Guy	Mulaney	103
	128	101	127	56
	114		91
Avg	112		102		107

2014-15 Update: Fox's Sunday comedies got off to a roaring start, with Brooklyn Nine-Nine fitting right in and Family Guy debuting with an enormous crossover with The Simpsons. But the animated anchors were generally down in Plus when they didn't have NFL help, and Mulaney was an abject disaster at 9:30. Fox got some relief there in the spring as The Last Man on Earth (97) improved things at 9:30. Last Man will hope for some help from the NFL halo when it gets a whirl on the fall schedule.

Notable mideason replacements:

• Family Guy (97) and American Dad! (88) came onto the sked at the end of the 2004-05 season and aired much of their initial orders in the summer of 2005.
• Bob's Burgers began its run in winter of the 2010-11 season (92), then was held all the way to spring in 2011-12 (79). Between Allen Gregory and Bob's, Fox tried another newbie Napoleon Dynamite (110) in 2011-12. (Its numbers are inflated because a third of its six-ep order aired after an NFL playoff game.)
• The 7:00 hours are pretty boring on the other networks, so I've omitted them (maybe I'll put 'em in the next edition!), but a lot of different original scripted series have aired in the hour on Fox. The two most common occupants were King of the Hill and The Cleveland Show, each of which tended to average a 60-65ish in their 7:00 hour runs. Malcolm in the Middle also aired its 2004-05 season there, averaging a 65.

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