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Major Crimes ended the season on a major high, with Monday night’s outing bringing in 4.4 million viewers, a 16% increase over the prior week, hitting  a new ratings high for this winter season, and won the night as the most watched scripted cable outing. The episode also showed gains in key demographics, with 0.7 million viewers tuning in Live + Same Day, a 17% increase over the prior week.*

Major Crimes added another feather to its cap for the last week of 2014, surpassing freshman series The Librarians ascend to the #2 spot of TNT’s most-watched shows of the year!

Congratulations to the cast and crew of Major Crimes for a truly wonderful year, and best wishes to all for the New Year!

Authors note: Time-delayed ratings for last weeks Christmas outing of Major Crimes were not immediately available at the time this article was published, but will be added once they have been released.

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The holidays brought good cheer to Major Crimes, with 3.82 million viewers tuning in to watch the squad crack the case of the “Felony Santacides” and meet the rest of the Raydor clan. The episode won the night as the most watched scripted cable offering of the evening, and improved on last weeks live numbers by 8%. In the 18-49 demographic, the episode remained steady withthe previous outing, pulling in 0.6 million viewers.

Meanwhile, last week’s episode continued to bring good tidings, coming in as the most- watched scripted cable offering of the week. So far the episode has drawn 6.8 million viewers in Live + 3, an increase of 4% over the prior week. In key demographics the episode showed even more significant gains, with 2.1 million adults 21-54 (up 11% over the prior week) and 1.6 million adults 18-49 (up 13% over the prior week). For those with a touch of schadenfreude, we can’t resist noting that Major Crimes has beat out fellow TNT series The Librarians in the ratings for the past two weeks, despite the latter being much more heavily promoted.

With one week left to go for 2014, Major Crimes is set to finish the year on a high note as the 6th most watched cable series of the year, and is poised to rise to the #2 spot for TNT’s most watched series of the year.

MajorCrimesTV.net wishes a very happy holiday season to the cast and crew of Major Crimes, and to all the fans.

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Major Crimes remained steady in its first holiday outing of the season, with 3.53 million viewers (and 0.6 18-49) tuning in, winning as the most watched scripted cable offering of the night.

Meanwhile, last week’s episode grew to 6.5 million viewers in Live + 3, a whopping 80% increase over its live numbers, and came in as the third most-watched scripted cable offering of the week, behind only the series finale of Sons of Anarchy and the heavily advertised premiere of The Librarians.

Though Live + 7 data for the winter premiere episode won’t be available till next week, a new report from TiVo shows that over 87% of their viewers watch Major Crimes via DVR, within one week of the original airing. The TiVo report finds that Major Crimes has the highest level of DVR views of all scripted series, broadcast or cable.

Earlier this week People Magazine reported that Major Crimes was poised to finish the year in the Top Ten Most Watched watched scripted cable series of the year, coming in at number 6. With three episodes left to air this year.  Major Crimes is also finishing the season on a high note within TNT’s own series, rounding out the Top 3 most watched scripted cable offerings from the network, averaging 6.8 million total viewers. In the key 25-54 demo Major Crimes is in fourth place for the network, with 2.0 million total viewers.

Among all viewing platforms (including live + 7 views, DVR Playback, set-top VOD and digital on-demand), Major Crimes numbers continue to grow substantially, with an average of 12.8 million viewers tuning into the show, a massive 200% increase over its live + same day reach, putting it firmly in the top 3 most watched TNT series of the year.

Congrats to the cast and crew of Major Crimes for an amazing year!

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With stiff competition from multiple network winter finales, the third episode of the winter run of Major Crimes won the night as the most watched scripted cable offering. In Live + Same Day ratings, the episode was down from last week, with 3.6 million viewers tuning in to see if the friendship between Flynn and Raydor was perhaps something more (the answer was vague, but we think those in favor of “Shandy” got what they were hoping for!). In the 18-49 demographic, the episode drew 0.6 million viewers, down from the previous week but on par with the winter premiere.

Meanwhile, last weeks outing continued to grow in time delayed ratings, bringing in 6.9 million viewers in Live + 3 ratings (up 23%/1.3 million viewers from winter premiere), and 2.1 million adults 25-54 and 1.5 million adults 18-49. This marks an increase in over one million viewers from the same time last season as well.  Last week’s episode finished the week as the third most-watched scripted cable offering, behind only the highly-publicized premiere of The Librarians and the penultimate episode of Sons of Anarchy.

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Building on momentum from last week’s mid-season premiere, the sophomore outing of Major Crimes episode run saw sharp gains in the ratings over the prior week.  4.2 million total viewers tuned in to see “Dr. Provenza” and company get to the bottom of a murder at a house party, matching the ratings for last year’s 2nd episode of the winter run, and winning the night as the most watched scripted cable offering.  In the 18-49 demographic the episode rose to 0.6 million viewers, still down from the series average of 0.9, but a 20% increase over the prior week. The episode drew 0.9 million viewers in the 25-54 demographic.

UPDATED: In Live + 3, the winter premiere of Major Crimes rose sharply over the live premiere numbers, which were impacted by the holidays and breaking news, bringing in 5.6 million viewers in Live + 3 delivery, a whopping 93% increase. In the key demos, the episode has so far grown to over 1.4 million and 1.9 million adults 18-49 and 25-54, respectively.

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Major Crimes ended its blockbuster summer season with a definitive BOOM, with 5.73 million viewers tuning in last night to watch the showdown between the Major Crimes Unit and Special Operations Bureau. The episode, featuring a faceoff between Sharon Raydor and guest stars Jon Tenney and Laurie Holden (and the secondary faceoff between Sharon Raydor and Sharon Beck) now marks the 2nd highest rated outing of the season, and won the night as the most watched cable program.

Last weeks installment of Major Crimes brought in another big score for this season, winning the week as the most watched cable outing (scripted, reality or sports) for the third week in a row, and racking up 6.7 million viewers so far in Live + 3 day delivery. Meanwhile episode 308 continued to set records in time shifted viewing, with a final tally of 7.8 million viewers in Live + 7, a 6% increase over the prior weeks episode, making it the 3rd highest rated episode of the series.

Congrats to the Major Crimes cast and crew for dominating the summer season!

Major Crimes returns with all-new episodes of Monday, December 1st on TNT.