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Ratings: Undercover Boss Gets Biggest Audience in a Year; Kardashians Set Series Record

Maybe because it qualifies as fantasy fare in the Great Recession, Undercover Boss grabbed its biggest audience since January 2011, according to Nielsen overnights. Meanwhile, the implosion of Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries set series records for E!.

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Season 23, Episode 12
Marge is asked to create a tapestry.
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Season 23, Episode 12
Moe's bar rag lives to tell the Springfield dream.
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Aired: 1/29/2012
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Marge is asked to create a tapestry.
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Ratings: Undercover Boss Gets Biggest Audience in a Year; Kardashians Set Series Record

Maybe because it qualifies as fantasy fare in the Great Recession, Undercover Boss grabbed its biggest audience since January 2011, according to Nielsen overnights. Meanwhile, the implosion of Kim Kardashian's marriage to Kris Humphries set series records for E!.

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Ratings: Golden Globes Decline Slightly; Fox Benefits from Football Overrun

Viewership for the 69th Golden Globe Awards ceremony declined slightly to 16.8 million vs. last year's 17 million, according to time zone-adjusted, preliminary Nielsen figures.

The show also fell a little in the industry-coveted demo of 18-to-49-year-olds — to 5.0 from 5.2 (last year's final figure).

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Matt's TV Week in Review

"Keep TV out of this. We need TV. We got nothing else." Why do I relate to the Hecks of ABC's rollicking The Middle? This is why. read more

Ratings: The Firm Sets An All-Time Low for an NBC Regular Season Drama

No terra firma for The Firm. Its two-hour debut stands on this shaky ground — 46 percent below the demo rating of The Cape's premiere a year ago, making it the worst all-time start of an NBC regular season drama. Quite telling: the show lost viewers with each succeeding half-hour. Surely, the network is missing Sunday Night Football already.

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Steve Carell Returns to TV! Is Springfield Ready?

Steve Carell is back... in cartoon form.

The former Office star will lend his voice to The Simpsons, Entertainment Weekly reports. Carell will portray... read more

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Premise: Matt Groening's subversive, animated satire about Springfield's hapless first family became a cult favorite when it premiered on Fox in 1989 after first being seen in 1987 as a short on 'The Tracey Ullman Show.' That was then; now it's TV longest running comedy. Not since 'The Flintstones' in the '60s has a cartoon series drawn such a large adult audience, and, ay caramba, given us pop-culture expressions for the ages. And in 1999, Time magazine called it the best TV show of the 20th century.

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