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In its first-ever Thanksgiving outing, Major Crimes stayed steady in the ratings despite going up against Monday Night Football and the TV “sweeps” period. Last nights Major Crimes brought in 2.49 million total viewers (up slightly from its winter season average to date), and won the night as the Most-Watched Scripted Cable Original of the Night.

Greater gains were seen in key demos, where 0.4 million viewers 18-49 tuned in, a rise of more than 33% over the prior week.  Major Crimes is also vastly outperforming its new companion on Monday nights, bringing in in over 300% more viewers than lead-out Legends (580,000/0.1)

Across the board, TNT has been suffering losses of over half its viewership from its summer finales to this winter’s premieres (average network viewership of 2.94/0.5 in summer to 1.5/0.3 this winter). Meanwhile, the sole new offering from the network this winter debuted far below expectations, with only 1.01 million viewers (0.2 demo) tuning in for the premiere of Agent X.

While Major Crimes has also suffered from the TNT viewer drop, its numbers have been the least impacted of all TNT’s currently airing dramas, and has continued to lead as TNT’s most-watched program this winter by an average margin of almost a half million. Those gains are even greater when Live +3 numbers are taken into account, where Major Crimes has recovered much of its missing viewership, rising to an average of 4.2 million viewers and 0.7 million viewers 18-49 in Live + 3 day viewing.

TNT, we know it’s been a while, but we have to ask anyway – where is the Season 5 renewal for Major Crimes?