Ratings: Major Crimes Premiere Earns #1 Debut of the Year

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MAJOR CRIMESFrom a TNT Press Release:

TNT’s Major Crimes Returns with More than 5 Million Viewers,

Ranks as Basic Cable’s #1 Returning Scripted Series Premiere This Year

 TNT’s enormously popular crime-drama Major Crimes pulled in more than 5 million viewers in Live + Same Day for Monday night’s second-season premiere. In the demos, the ensemble series scored deliveries of 1.2 million adults 18-49 and 1.5 million adults 25-54. Major Crimes‘ performance Monday night is in range of its overall Live + Same Day average for season one and even outperformed last year’s average among adults 18-49 by +6%.

Compared to other returning shows on basic cable, Major Crimes ranks as this year’s #1 scripted-series season premiere with total viewers and joins Sunday night’s two-hour season premiere of Falling Skies among the Top 5 with adults 25-54.