“White Lies – Part 3″ – Monday, Sept. 19, 2016 at 10 p.m. (ET/PT)
Major Crimes hurtles forward towards the mysterious and elusive mastermind in the Dwight Darnell murders while Buzz and Rusty’s investigation into the murder of Buzz’s father comes to an unexpected end.
Directed by Michael M. Robin
Written by Carson Moore
Created by James Duff
As its summer season begins to wind down, Major Crimes continues to heat up the ratings race, hitting new highs in both same day and time-delayed ratings.
In time-delayed ratings, episode 509 finished its run with the greatest gains across all of cable in Live + 7 day performance, rising 74% over the Live + Same day performance to 6.84 total viewers. Even bigger gains were seen in key demographics, which rose 150% to 1.0 million viewers 18-49.
In Live + 3 day viewing, episode 510 likewise is on track for a big finish, so far showing the biggest gains in total viewers , up 58% over Live + Same Day. In total viewers the episode is currently holding the #2 slot just behind Rizzoli and Isles. In key demographics, the episode has thus far grown 80% to 0.9 million viewers.
Last week’s season high episode continued to perform extremely throughout the week, finishing as the second most watched cable series of the week, behind the season finale of Rizzoli and Isles, and more than 700,000 viewers ahead of third place finisher Fear the Walking Dead.
Last night’s penultimate episode of Major Crimes likewise performed well, despite the across-the-board drops seen by all cable and broadcast shows of the night due to the return of Monday Night Football. 3.3 million total viewers tuned in to part two of the Major Crimes season finale, as the team continued to seek justice for Chief Taylor and unravel the conspiracy around them. Despite the competition from football, the episode outperformed Sunday night’s season finale of The Last Ship, the only other TNT original currently airing, by more than a million viewers. The episode is also expected to perform strongly in time-delayed viewings, once DVR Live + 3 and Live + 7 day numbers are available.
Overall, while the rest of TNT’s summer slate has seen double-digit losses in their average viewership from 2015 to 2016 (The Last Ship: -24%, The Librarians: - 45%, Murder in the First: -33%), Major Crimes is the only TNT drama to grow from 2015, adding 5% in total viewers year to year.
Once again, we at MajorCrimesTV.net want to thank the fans for their continued support of Major Crimes, and encourage as many as possible to watch the series live for next week’s summer finale. We also strongly encourage reaching out to TNT to let them know you support Major Crimes, and that you’d like to see them renew the show for a sixth season. You can tweet them @TNTDrama, visit them on Facebook, and for more information on how to make your voice heard, click here.
“White Lies – Part 2″ – Monday, Sept. 12, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT)
Major Crimes continues to investigate the conspiracy behind Dwight Darnell’s murders and his links to the Zyklon-Brotherhood. Sharon Raydor, disturbed by her own reactions to the case, seeks penance in the Ritual of Confession.
Directed by Sheelin Choksey
Written by Damani Johnson
Created by James Duff
The intense opener of the three-part season finale did more than just change things forever for the Major Crimes team, as Monday night’s outing brought in a new season high in the ratings. The heartbreaking episode brought in 4.1 million viewers, adding more than 400,000 over the previous season high. Strong gains were also seen in the key demographic, which rose 4% over the previous season high to 0.52 million viewers 18-49. Overall the episode was the second-most watched cable offering of the evening, behind the series finale of Rizzoli and Isles.
Last week’s episode continued to perform well throughout the week, coming in as the second-most watched episode of the week, just behind the penultimate episode of Rizzoli and Isles. The outing also far exceeded the ratings of number 3 series Fear the Walking Dead by more than one million viewers.
In time-delayed ratings, Major Crimes has continued it’s very strong showing in Live + 3 day viewings for the summer. Episode 509 brought in 6.3 million total viewers in L+3, a massive 60% increase over the live + same day numbers, and added close to 900,000 viewers over the prior week. Greater gains were seen in key demographics, where the episode grew 125% to 0.9 million viewers, the highest growth of any cable program for the week.
As the summer season begins to wrap up, we at MajorCrimesTV.net want to thank the fans for their continued support of Major Crimes, and encourage as many as possible to watch the series live in the last two episodes of the summer season. We also encourage reaching out to TNT to let them know you support Major Crimes, and that you’d like to see them renew the show for a sixth season. You can tweet them @TNTDrama, visit them on Facebook, and for more information on how to make your voice heard, click here.
Major Crimes returns with an all-new episode next Monday at 10pm/9c on TNT.
Want more Major Crimes? Listen to the ”What Would Sharon Raydor Do?” Podcast with Mary McDonnell, now streaming on MajorCrimesTV.net!
“White Lies – Part 1″ – Monday, September 5, at 10 p.m. (ET/PT)
In attempting to clear up lose ends from their investigation of a gang of White Supremacists, Major Crimes detectives audit the trial of serial killer Dwight Darnell, and end up facing their most deadly case ever while Rusty’s psychologist, Dr. Joe, faces an unexpected confrontation that leaves his life in jeopardy.
Directed by Michael M. Robin
Written by James Duff
Created by James Duff
The summer season of Major Crimes begins to wrap up tonight, with part one of a three-week summer finale arc. MajorCrimesTV caught up with Michael Paul Chan and Raymond Cruz on their last day of summer filming to get the scoop on their characters, how this season has changed both Mike and Julio, and find out just how intense we can expect these last few episodes to get!
MajorCrimesTV: I just finished watching last week’s episode, and I’m really loving where this season has brought things to at this point, and the showdown it is leading up to.
You both have also been exploring some new sides and moments with your characters. For Raymond, there have been some really interesting changes we’ve seen in Julio over the last 6 months or so, from the unfortunate way that his relationship with worked out in the 5-episode arc with Stephanie Dunn, to wanting to become a foster parent and potentially having this very difficult boy live with him. How has this been for you to explore this other side of Sanchez?
Raymond Cruz: It’s been interesting to get to see the softer side to Sanchez. You get to see him care for this child and protect him and he goes to some real interesting places as it moves forward.
Michael Paul Chan: That we can’t talk about.
RC: MPC loves my tough side.
MPC: *singing* Softer-side… softer-side
MCTV: I like it! Julio’s new theme song! So having this child, Mark, who’s obviously been raised in a terribly racist homes, is definitely a interesting dynamic to have Sanchez dealing with, because knowingly or not, the what Mark says to Julio is insulting and is degrading. How does that work with Sanchez’s anger issues? Does it test what he has learned about controlling his temper?
RC: He really has to exercise patience which he learned at anger management so it helps and the kid. When you just decide to put the kid first, it really makes it easy.
MCTV: It’s amazing how quickly he’s gone from being a little taken aback by the child, to being protective, and ultimately, very fatherly.
RC: Yeah when he was trying to get the child to be a witness I was all over G.W.
MCTV: I know you guys can’t much about the upcoming summer finale episodes, but what I am interested in is that James Duff has said before that the theme this season is balance and rebalancing and we are obviously seeing that in a lot of different ways. Overall how have you seen that theme playing into your characters?
RC: As far as my character is concerned I feel that he has had to learn how to balance his emotions. And balance his work life with his home life, and having to deal with personal issues and not having that bleed into work. And all of that requires having to walk a very tight balance to keep everything from not merging too much.
MPC: In regards to balance-
RC: Badge of Justice!
MPC: Yeah there is that side story of the influence of Hollywood and how it affects Tao-
RC: Corrupts!
MPC: And it brings on certain jealousy within our squad.
RC: Denison!
MPC: With a bit of humor, yes, but I am interested to see where it can go. Something might you know, bite him seriously as a result of all that.
MCTV: A couple weeks ago we saw Tao go undercover – tell us about that?
MPC: I hate to use the word fun but it was fun and it was uncomfortable. Anytime an actress, a serious actress, has to disrobe it’s a bit uncomfortable.
RC: Not for me!
MPC: It was good stuff.
MCTV: It was nice to see Tao in a different realm taking over and stepping up for the undercover operation.
MPC: It’s been a while since I’ve done that. I think the last time I was undercover was when I dressed up as a biker dude when we did The Closer.
MCTV: So, I know details about the summer finale are really tightly wrapped, but anything you can let us know about these final three episodes without giving too much away?
RC: Well I can just say without revealing anything is that I actually got injured from filming these episodes. I’m okay now. I can’t really say much, but yeah on a personal note, I was physically tested.
MCTV: From stunts?
RC: Yes.
MCTV: Well I’m glad you’re better now.
MPC: We really can’t say anything. Not even a tickle! Ok, one thing. There’s three parts.
RC: You can’t say that!
MPC: There’s three episodes left right? So that means there’s three parts!
RC: I can say that the audience is going to be frightened.
MPC: After one, comes two. And after two, three!
MCTV: That’s a tease if I ever heard one! We’ll just have to tune in and find out!
Part one of the three-part Major Crimes summer finale airs tonight at 10pm/9c on TNT.
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Even as the summer season begins to wind down, Major Crimes ratings are heating up. This week’s intense outing (prologue to the upcoming three-part episode arc that will be closing out the summer season) built on last weeks performance to rise to 3.98 million viewers, virtually matching the season high to-date. Additional gains were seen in the key demos, growing over 11% to 0.5 million viewers 18-4, marking the third week of consecutive growth in the demo. The episode was the second most-watched cable offering of the night, just behind the penultimate episode of Rizzoli & Isles.
Last week’s episode continued its strong performance in the ratings throughout the week, finishing as the second-most watched cable program of the week, ahead of both Fear The Walking Dead and the VMA Awards.
In time-delayed viewing, episode 508 continues to grow its viewership, growing more than 80% and 2 million viewers in Live + 3 day to 5.44 million viewers. Even bigger gains were seen in the key demo, which fully doubled to 0.8 million viewers 18-49.
Across the board Major Crimes continues to best the rest of TNT’s summer slate, including the latest episodes of The Last Ship (2.54/0.5) and almost tripling the viewership of Murder in the First (1.5/0.2).
Major Crimes returns with an all-new episode next Monday at 10pm/9c on TNT.
Want more Major Crimes? Listen to the ”What Would Sharon Raydor Do?” Podcast with Mary McDonnell, now streaming on MajorCrimesTV.net!
Welcome to Episode 7 of ‘What Would Sharon Raydor Do?’, the podcast devoted to getting an in-depth view at Major Crimes Captain Sharon Raydor by the woman who knows her best, Mary McDonnell. This week’s guest host is Greg LaVoi, the costume designer and wardrobe guru at Major Crimes.
In this episode, Mary and Greg answer questions about Season 5, Episode 9, “Family Law”, discuss how wardrobe choices are made, what role the actor’s input plays in costume selection, and how the costumes are used to tell the story.
We will be including a few listener questions on the podcast each week, and you can ask your questions below, on the MajorCrimesTV Facebook page, or tweet them to us @MaryMcDonnell10 and @MajorCrimesTV using hashtag #WWSRD, and tune in next week to see if your question is answered!