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Turkey, Black Friday, and Major Crimes? Viewers were happy to include Major Crimes as part of their holiday traditions this year, with 3.69 million tuning in for Monday’s episode. The episode gained a whopping 1.2 million viewers over last week as many viewers found it for the first time this winter season, due to the outing being the first to air in Major Crimes usual Monday-after-Thanksgiving time slot.

The almost 50% increase in total viewers also helped Major Crimes easily win the night as the most watched scripted cable offering.   Strong gains were also seen in the key 18-49 demographic, where the episode rose more than 24% over last week to 0.5 million viewers.

With the increase in this weeks ratings, Major Crimes is close to matching its Winter 2014 ratings performances.  Unfortunately the same cannot be said for the rest of TNT’s winter lineup, which continues to experience the ratings slump we first mentioned last week. TNT’s other winter offerings all experienced drops this week, including Agent X (1.03/0.2 to 0.98/0.2) and Librarians (2.10/0.5 to 2.02/0.5). The struggling Major Crimes lead-out Legends saw a small increase this week, rising from .58/0.1 to 0.72/0.1.

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