Sunday evening’s nineteenth “Treehouse of Horror” episode helped “The Simpsons” to its best ratings in five years according to Variety. The annual event for the long-running animated series garnered a 6.5 rating, equating out to 12.5 million viewers. The series did extremely well in key demographics and against solid competition from NBC’s “Sunday Night Football” and ABC’s “Desperate Housewives.”
ABC may be interested in giving Fox’s recently cancelled “King of the Hill” new life Variety reports. Insiders at 20th Century Fox television have said there is interest from “another network” in continuing the animated series.
The alphabet network would be a good fit for the “Hill.” ABC is developing a new animated series “The Goode Family” for a mid-season replacement. “Goode” could be paired with “Hill” for a night of animation on ABC.
And it doesn’t hurt that several of the producers from “Hill” are behind “Goode.”
After more than a year off television screens, agent Jack Bauer will finally return for the seventh longest day of his life on January 11 with the return of “24.”
The clock begins ticking on the latest crisis with a four-hour, two-night event on Sunday, Janaury 11 and Monday, January 12. “24” will then settle into its regular Monday time slot the next week for the rest of the season.
Before season seven begins, a prequel film will air later this month on Fox.
J.J. Abrams latest comments about the upcoming “Star Trek” prequel may give hard-core Trekkers some pause and dampen enthusiasm for the new reboot.
“Star Wars was always full of action,” Abrams told Empire Magazine. “If I had one criticism of the original Star Trek, it’s that the show was often a lot of discussion about things that were happening and not a lot of action depicting it. That needed to change.”
“We looked at the ships, the feeling of battle and action and fights and all the stuff that makes a movie like this so exciting. It all needed to be done in a way that people had never seen before, and certainly never in a Star Trek movie.”
Abrams said that he’s looking to make the “Trek” films more like the “Star Wars” franchise. He hopes to make the movies a solid brand name.
“When you say ‘Star Trek,’ to some people it means ‘Deep Space Nine.’ To others, it’s ‘Next Generation’ or ‘Enterprise’ or the original series or the films,” he said. “It’s become this kind of diffused, slightly confused title, and I don’t think people really know what Star Trek is anymore. What this movie is doing, I hope, is focusing the concept, not rethinking it.”
The upcoming DVD “Hulk Vs.” has earned a PG-13 rating and will hit store shelves on January 27, 2009. The new animated movie will have two segments with the Green Goliath going toe-to-toe with Wolverine and Thor.
 Fans curious to see a sneak-peek of this weekend’s debut of “Batman: The Brave and the Bold” can see a one minute clip. The first episode kicks-off on November 14 at 8 p.m. EST on Cartoon Network.
