Major Crimes continued its strong winter showing last night, coming in as the Most Watched Scripted Cable Show of the night for the 6th week in a row. The intense penultimate episode of this winter run brought in 3.0 million viewers, down slightly from last weeks episode. Despite this drop, Major Crimes is still easily holding onto the top spot as TNT’s most watched show this winter, with almost 800,000 more total viewers than runner up The Librarians. In key demographics the episode was steady with last week, bringing in 0.4 million viewers 18-49.
Last week’s episode continued to perform well in time delayed ratings, coming in as the Most Watched Scripted Cable Series of the Week for the second straight week. Major Crimes was also the only scripted series to make the list of the Top 25 most-watched shows on all of cable for last week, which was otherwise dominated by sports and reality TV.
Meanwhile, episode 415 has continued to score big in time delayed ratings, with 5.44 million total viewers tuning in in Live + 3 day viewing, a massive 48% rise over the Live + Same Day. Even bigger gains were seen in the key demographics, where the episode rose 68% to 0.84 million viewers 18-49.
The winter finale of Major Crimes will air next week, and will return after the holidays for the final five episodes of the season beginning on February 15th, 2016.