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Ratings: Despite Stiff Competition, Major Crimes Wins Night as Top Scripted Cable Show

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Despite fierce competition from both Monday Night Football and the beginning of the fall season on the broadcast networks, Major Crimes ratings held remained strong last night, with fast overnights showing it with 4.67 million live viewers (Monday Night Football had 15.5 million viewers), to once again win the night among all scripted cable shows. Despite the drop of 290,000 viewers over last weeks episode (4.9 million and only 10 million football viewers), the numbers indicate that Major Crimes is able to retain a good portion of it’s audience, even when pitted against the most competitive night of the week of the regular fall season.

In addition, for the week of September 11th, 2012, Major Crimes was the #2 highest rated scripted show of the week, behind only the fall premiere of Sons of Anarchy.

All the ratings numbers are available here.

TV Guide Talks to Mary McDonnell About “Major Crimes”

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In a new interview with TVGuide.com, Mary McDonnell talks about the unlikely path that took her from guest-star to series lead, and Captain Raydor’s transition from foe to friend of the squad.

“I’ve never had something grow this way,” McDonnell tells TVGuide.com. “This was just a delightful three-episode romp, and I was very excited to be able to fully embrace the antagonist. Then it just grew and grew. And I was standing by going, ‘Well, this is interesting. Let’s take another step.’ I don’t think it was really until we [premiered] a few of weeks ago that it truly occurred to me what had happened.”

Read the whole interview here.

Ratings: Major Crimes Wins Night; Three-Peats Top Scripted Basic Cable Show Honors

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Despite the start of Monday Night Football and the return of several big fall shows on the broadcast networks, MAJOR CRIMES retained its place as the top scripted basic cable show of the night for Monday, 9/10/12.

In addition, last week’s episode continued tradition of the previous two weeks, making Major Crimes the top scripted basic cable show of the week for three weeks running:

“TNT’s chart-topping hit Major Crimes once again ranked as basic cable’s #1 drama for the week, with last Monday’s episode bringing in 5.9 million viewers in Live + Same Day. That’s a +2% boost over the prior week’s episode. In the demos, Major Crimes grew by +6% among adults 18-49 (1.3 million) and adults 25-54 (1.7 million).”

Source: TVbythenumbers.com

And in even more good news, once adjusted to include DVR viewings over the ensuing 7 days, the numbers for episode 3 of Major Crimes rose to 7.1 million viewers; 1.7 million adults 18-49; 2.3 million adults 25-54 (from 5.7 million, 1.2 million adults 18-49 and 1.6 million adults 25-54.

With all this good news, can a season 2 announcement possibly be far behind?

 

Review: Episode 1.05- “Citizen’s Arrest”

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Review of episode 1.05 “Citizen’s Arrest” by TVFanatic.com:

“From the moment we learned about the crime of the week until the last scene of the episode, every aspect of Major Crimes was perfection. Brenda Leigh Johnson could not have handled the case any better than Sharon Raydor, and it’s my assessment that the nature of the case needed the likes of Raydor and her willingness to deal with the ugliest dregs of society. “

Read the whole review here.

 

 

Interview: Tony Denison Talks about Major Crimes with Working Author Magazine

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In a new interview with Working Author, Tony Denison discusses the transition between The Closer and Major Crimes, his friendship with G.W. Bailey and more.

“It’s like when they say your life exceeds your dreams,” Denison says, “that’s what’s going on right now for me.” He went on to discuss his character and what Kyra Sedgwick’s leaving means for the show. “You know, I love playing this character. I’ve been fortunate enough to play it for seven years, worked with really good actors and had a really good female lead on the show, Kyra. And now Kyra leaves and we go to a really good female lead in Mary McDonnell. And lest people forget, Mary McDonnell was nominated for Academy Awards twice. And that didn’t happen because people felt sorry for her. They did it because she’s really, really good.”

Read the whole interview here.

Major Crimes Premiere Climbs to 9.5 Million Viewers To Become Basic Cable’s Biggest Series Launch Ever

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From a TNT press release:

Major Crimes Premiere Climbs to 9.5 Million Viewers To Become Basic Cable’s Biggest Series Launch Ever

TNT’s The Closer, which set numerous audience records during its seven-season run, just added another one. Through time-shifted viewing, the Aug. 13 finale of the blockbuster series grew to a final tally of 11,212,000 viewers, making it the most-watched series finale in basic cable history. On a household basis, the finale scored a 7.2 national HH rating, making it the highest-rated series finale in cable history.

Meanwhile, the Aug. 13 premiere of TNT’s new series Major Crimes climbed to 9,453,000 viewers, making it basic cable’s biggest new series launch ever.

“As wonderful as i t is to see The Closer claim yet another page in the record books, it’s extremely gratifying that Major Crimes has taken its own place in cable history,” said Michael Wright, president, head of programming for TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies (TCM).

The record-setting audience for Major Crimes has overtaken previous high marks set by July 12, 2010, debut of TNT’s Rizzoli & Isles (9,049,000 viewers) and the Sept. 1, 2008, premiere of TNT’s Raising the Bar (8,560,000 viewers).

Among key demos, The Closer‘s finale garnered 2.7 million adults 18-49 and 3.6 million adults 25-54, while the premiere of Major Crimes drew 2.2 million adults 18-49 and 2.9 million adults 25-54.

Major Crimes recently finished summer as television’s #1 new series, with a Live + Same Day average of 6.3 million viewers. That average will rise significantly as additional weeks of time-shifted viewing are added. Meanwhile, The Closer‘s six final episodes this summer scored an overall average of 8.7 million viewers, with 2.1 million adults 18-49 and 2.8 million adults 25-54 in Live + 7.

Ratings: Major Crimes Scores Top Cable Scripted Show for 2nd Week in a Row!

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According to tvbythenumbers.com, Major Crimes once again was crowned the top cable scripted program of the week,  with 5.738 million viewers!

Top 25 cable shows for the week ending September 2nd, 2012

 

Rank Shows Net Day Time Viewers Live +SD (000)
1 AMERICAS ELECTION HQ: RNC FOXN Thu 10:00P-11:00P 9057
2 AMERICAS ELECTION HQ: RNC FOXN Wed 10:00P-11:00P 7703
3 AMERICAS ELECTION HQ: RNC FOXN Thu 11:00P-11:50P 7355
4 AMERICAS ELECTION HQ: RNC FOXN Tue 10:00P-11:00P 6879
5 AMERICAS ELECTION HQ: RNC FOXN Wed 09:54P-10:00P 6299
6 AMERICAS ELECTION HQ: RNC FOXN Wed 11:00P-11:30P 5889
7 Hannity FOXN Thu 09:01P-10:00P 5816
8 MAJOR CRIMES TNT Mon 09:00P-10:00P 5738
9 NASCAR SPRINT CUP       L ESPN Sun 07:30P-11:34P 5558
10 Hannity FOXN Wed 09:00P-09:54P 5462