Ratings: Major Crimes Continues Summer Season with New Average Highs and Demo Gains

By M. Sharpe



504- flynn provenza raydor sanchez sykes tao lrMajor Crimes continued it’s strong summer showing in last night’s all new episode. Despite across-the-board ratings declines for all outlets due to competition from coverage of the Republican National Convention, Major Crimes saw a slight uptick in viewers 18-49, with 0.5 million viewers in that key demographic turning in. In total viewers, the episode saw a slight dip, with 3.71 million viewers in Live + Same Day delivery.

Last night’s episode was the 2nd most-watched scripted cable offering of the evening, just behind fellow TNT series Rizzoli & Isles (4.05/0.5). Overall, Major Crimes was the 3rd most watched scripted series across all of broadcast and cable for the evening.

Last week’s episode continued to hold steady throughout the week, finishing as the 2nd most watched program of the week amongst all scripted cable programs.

Major Crimes continues to be one of the strongest offerings of TNT’s summer slate, outperforming last weeks episodes of The Last Ship (2.345/0.5), Animal Kingdom (1.25/0.4) and Murder in the First (1.29/0.2) in both total viewers, and finishing well above the network average of 0.42 million viewers in the key 19-49 demographics. In total viewers thus far this season, Major Crimes’ ratings average is outperforming the TNT average by over 50%.

 

2 thoughts on “Ratings: Major Crimes Continues Summer Season with New Average Highs and Demo Gains

  1. One of the best shows around , great writing, acting , story line & character development.

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