Family Guy Head of Housewives?

Fox toon premieres big; ABC soap not-so much (but still stays No. 1 on Sunday, after football)

Wisteria Lane residents, be advised: Stewie's plan for world domination is coming together.

Hot off its historic Emmy nod, Fox's Family Guy scored its biggest audience in more than a year, with 10.2 million assembled for its eighth season premiere, preliminary Nielsen estimates showed.

Even more impressive, in the 9 p.m. half-hour, Family Guy dominated a downsized Desperate Housewives among young people who weren't watching the football game on NBC. 

All in all, it was a pretty ugly night for Housewives.

The pretty: The six-season-old ABC soap ended up as Sunday's most-watched show after football, with 13.2 million fans. The ugly: It lost about 5.5 million fans from last fall's opener.