Ratings: Major Crimes Continues Red-Hot Season as Most-Watched Cable Drama

By M. Sharpe

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Major Crimes continued trend with this summers red-hot ratings streak, reaffirming the shows place as one this summer’s most watched cable series. A total of 4.3 million viewers tuned in for last night’s gripping episode, up slightly from the previous week. In the 18-49 demographic the episode brought in 0.7 million viewers 18-49, a 16% increase over the prior week. Overall the episode won the night as the Most Watched Scripted Cable Program for the 7th consecutive week.

Last week’s episode continued to outperform all other cable series, and finished as the Most Watched Scripted Cable Program of the Week. Major Crimes continues to finish first amongst the rest of TNT’s summer slate, including Monday night lead-out Murder in the First (1.93, 0.3),Rizzoli and Isles (4.12/0.7), Proof (1.83/0.3), The Last Ship (3.02/0.7), and Falling Skies (1.96/0.5).

In time-delayed ratings, Major Crimes continues to show strong increases week over week.  So far in Live + 3 day ratings Episode 405 has grown 43% to 7.73 million total viewers. In key demographics the impact was even greater, as the episode fully doubled its 18-49 viewership to 1.0 million.  Meanwhile across all platforms episode 404 showed even larger gains, finishing with 7.7 million total viewers, and gaining 1.6 million viewers 18-49, and 2.2 million viewers 25-54, a 7% increase for both over the prior week.