Ratings: Betrayal, Revenge Slide; Football, Simpsons on Top

• Oct 7, 2013 01:05 PM ET
• by Joyce Eng

Betrayal might be next on the TV chopping block.

The ABC drama, which already bowed to soft numbers last week, tumbled 27 percent to 4 million viewers and a 1.1 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic Sunday. ABC, which canceled Lucky 7 on Friday, also had ...
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The Weekend Playlist: Simpsons' Halloween Tradition, PBS's Paradise, More Witches

• Oct 4, 2013 05:00 PM ET
• by Matt Roush

Next to Charlie Brown's Great Pumpkin, my favorite Halloween TV touchstone is The Simpsons' annual "Treehouse of Horror" special, with Mad Magazine-worthy parodies of things that go "D-oh!" in the night. It's airing unusually early this year in advance of post-season baseball pre-emptions, but what better way to get in the spirit — and as a bonus for the 24^th edition (Sunday, 8/7c, Fox), horror maestro Guillermo Del Toro has designed an elaborate "couch gag" opening sequence that's a kaleidoscopic homage to... read more

Ratings: Once, Revenge, Good Wife Return Down; Betrayal Bombs

• Sep 30, 2013 12:13 PM ET
• by Joyce Eng

Betrayal got off to a rough start on a low night all around.

The infidelity drama debuted Sunday to 5.3 million viewers and a 1.5 in the adults 18-to-49 demographic, down six tenths from 666 Park Avenue's premiere last year. Lead-ins Once Upon a Time (8.5 million, 2.6) and Revenge (8.04 million, 2.5) returned down ...
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TV Guide Magazine's 60 Greatest Cartoons of All Time

• Sep 24, 2013 09:40 AM ET
• by Rich Sands

Of all the fantastical things TV brings into our lives, nothing indulges the imagination quite like cartoons. Whether timely (South Park) or timeless (Looney Tunes), animation can truly take us anywhere. The rules — and the budgets — of conventional television don't apply. In short, we just can't help being drawn to them. In honor of TV Guide Magazine's 60^th anniversary, we present our list of the best and, often quite literally, the brightest:

Dads Producers on Backlash to the "Offensive" Pilot: "We're Used to It"

• Sep 16, 2013 10:00 PM ET
• by Liz Raftery

If there's one new fall show that everyone seems to have an opinion about, it's Dads, the new Fox comedy from the production team behind Family Guy. Based on the pilot episode alone, the show has been derided as "racist," "offensive" and "morally wrong" by critics. But Fox is using the backlash as a selling point — using such comments in promos for the show to try to foster tension between fans and (in the network's telling) and out-of-touch critics. And the show's producers — Seth MacFarlane, Wellesley Wild and Alec Sulkin of Family Guy, along with former Simpsons showrunner Mike Scully — don't seem to mind the negative attention either.

"We're used to it. That's what we do," Wild tells TVGuide.com.