Fireworks all around! The 4th of July isn’t the only thing Major Crimes is celebrating, with ratings for last nights holiday-themed outing (see what we did there!?) bringing in 4.4 million viewers, a 3.5% increase over last weeks episode and a new season high. Even bigger gains were seen in the 18-49 demographic, with 0.7 million viewers 18-49 tuning in, also a new season high. Overall the episode also won the night as the most watched scripted series.
Last week’s episode of Major Crimes continued to dominate, winning the week as the Most Watched Scripted Cable Series of the Week, beating out fellow TNT series Rizzoli and Isles. Major Crimes has continued to outperform the rest of TNT’s summer roster as well, including the latest episodes of The Last Ship (3.28/0.8), Proof (2.18/0.3, losing more than half of its Monday night lead-in) and the season premiere of Falling Skies (2.03/0.5).
Major Crimes has continued to make huge gains in time delayed ratings. The season premiere built on its already-impressive L+3 numbers to finish with 8.9 million viewers across all platforms in L+7, outperforming network projections by over 7%. In key demos the episode reached a total of 1.6 million viewers 18-59, and 2.1 million viewers 25-54, a 5% and 14% increase over the L+3 numbers, respectively.
Episode 402 of Major Crimes continued the upwards trend, virtually doubling it’s total viewers in Live + 3 to 5.464. In the key demographics the impact was even greater, rising 76% from 0.5 to 0.9 in viewers 18-49.
Hey TNT… we think it might be time to start thinking about Season 5!