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Major Crimes continued its strong winter performance in the ratings last night, winning the night as the most watched scripted cable program for the third consecutive week. Despite across-the-board drops in both cable and broadcast viewership for Monday night, last nights third outing of the winter season retained much of its audience, coming in with 2.95 million viewers, down slightly from 3.2 million from the previous week. In key demos, the episode remained steady with the winter premiere numbers, with 0.4 million viewers 18-49.

Last week’s winter season high held its own throughout the week, ending as the 2nd most watched scripted cable program of the week, behind only perennial powerhouse The Walking Dead, and outperforming the #3 show, The People Vs. OJ Simpson, by more than 10%. The episode also bested fellow TNT series Rizzoli & Isles by almost 1 million viewers.

In Live + 3 Day ratings, the winter premiere of Major Crimes saw huge gains, rising almost 50% in total viewership to 4.6 million viewers. Even stronger gains were seen in key demos, which fully doubled it’s viewers from 0.4 million viewers to 0.8 million viewers 18-49 in Live + 3 day numbers.