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Major Crimes continued its winning ways in the ratings for its holiday run. Last night’s episode brought in 3.29 million viewers, down slightly from last weeks winter season high, but still easily won the night as the most watched scripted cable series.

Episode 414 continued to perform strongly in time delayed ratings, growing to 4.05 million total viewers and 0.7 million viewers in the 18-49 demographic in Live + 3 (a massive 75% increase for the demographic over the Live numbers). The continued strong performance of the episode also helped it to score the top spot as the Most Watched Scripted Cable Show of the Week for the first time this winter season.

The slight dip in ratings this week was felt across the board on TNT’s offerings, though Major Crimes continues to be the most watched TNT original of the winter season, besting runner up The Librarians by more than 1.2 million viewers. The rest of TNT’s roster has continued to struggle to find an audience this season, with new series Agent X dropping to 0.99 million viewers and 0.2 million (18-49), and Major Crimes lead-out Legends dropping to a new low at 0.67 million viewers and 0.1 (18-49).

Major Crimes will air two more new episodes in 2015, then take a break, and return with the final five episodes of Season 4 on February 15, 2016.

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Turkey, Black Friday, and Major Crimes? Viewers were happy to include Major Crimes as part of their holiday traditions this year, with 3.69 million tuning in for Monday’s episode. The episode gained a whopping 1.2 million viewers over last week as many viewers found it for the first time this winter season, due to the outing being the first to air in Major Crimes usual Monday-after-Thanksgiving time slot.

The almost 50% increase in total viewers also helped Major Crimes easily win the night as the most watched scripted cable offering.   Strong gains were also seen in the key 18-49 demographic, where the episode rose more than 24% over last week to 0.5 million viewers.

With the increase in this weeks ratings, Major Crimes is close to matching its Winter 2014 ratings performances.  Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the rest of TNT’s winter lineup, which continues to experience the ratings slump we first mentioned last week. TNT’s other winter offerings all experienced drops this week, including Agent X (1.03/0.2 to 0.98/0.2) and Librarians (2.10/0.5 to 2.02/0.5). The struggling Major Crimes lead-out Legends saw a small increase this week, rising from .58/0.1 to 0.72/0.1.

Related post – Major Crimes Renewed for Season 5!

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In its first-ever Thanksgiving outing, Major Crimes stayed steady in the ratings despite going up against Monday Night Football and the TV “sweeps” period. Last nights Major Crimes brought in 2.49 million total viewers (up slightly from its winter season average to date), and won the night as the Most-Watched Scripted Cable Original of the Night.

Greater gains were seen in key demos, where 0.4 million viewers 18-49 tuned in, a rise of more than 33% over the prior week.  Major Crimes is also vastly outperforming its new companion on Monday nights, bringing in in over 300% more viewers than lead-out Legends (580,000/0.1)

Across the board, TNT has been suffering losses of over half its viewership from its summer finales to this winter’s premieres (average network viewership of 2.94/0.5 in summer to 1.5/0.3 this winter). Meanwhile, the sole new offering from the network this winter debuted far below expectations, with only 1.01 million viewers (0.2 demo) tuning in for the premiere of Agent X.

While Major Crimes has also suffered from the TNT viewer drop, its numbers have been the least impacted of all TNT’s currently airing dramas, and has continued to lead as TNT’s most-watched program this winter by an average margin of almost a half million. Those gains are even greater when Live +3 numbers are taken into account, where Major Crimes has recovered much of its missing viewership, rising to an average of 4.2 million viewers and 0.7 million viewers 18-49 in Live + 3 day viewing.

TNT, we know it’s been a while, but we have to ask anyway – where is the Season 5 renewal for Major Crimes?

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Major Crimes ended its explosive summer season on a high note last night, capping off an impressive and consistent showing in the ratings for the last 10 weeks. Last night’s summer finale brought in 4.5 million total viewers, making it the second most watched episode of the summer season. The episode also won the night as the most watched scripted cable program, an honor it has held for its entire 10-week run.

Major Crimes continues to dominate the rest of TNT’s summer programing. In addition to reaching season-high viewership numbers, last week’s episode also won the week as the most watched scripted cable program, easily besting fellow TNT series Rizzoli and Isles, which held the #2 spot, by over 300k viewers, and bringing in almost 2 million more viewers than TNT’s other recently renewed summer series The Last Ship (2.98/0.8). Among the rest of TNT’s summer slate, Major Crimes continued its winning trend, more than doubling the ratings impact of its sister shows on the network, including Monday night lead-out Murder in the First (2.0/0.3), Proof (1.99/0.3), and Falling Skies (1.98/0.5).

Though a full reporting of time-delayed ratings weren’t immediately available, Major Crimes has continued to show strong growth in Live + 3 ratings, with episode 408 growing to 6.006 million viewers thus far, a 37% increase over it’s Live + Same Day impact, and a 4% increase over the prior weeks growth. In key demographics the episode showed even greater gains, with 0.9 million viewers 18-49 tuning in, a whopping 60% increase.

With numbers like this, we have to ask… TNT, what are you waiting for? It’s time to renew Major Crimes for Season 5!