Ratings: Major Crimes Ends Summer Season With a BOOM

By M. Sharpe




310-sykes lrMajor 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.