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On the heels of its strong season debut ratings, Major Crimes remained steady in its milestone 50th episode, winning the night as the Most Watched Scripted Cable Program with 3.81 million viewers.

Despite the expected ratings drop for the sophomore episode of the season, Major Crimes still performed strongly, retaining a close to 90% of its premiere audience, and in key demographics stayed steady at 0.5 million viewers, on par with the premiere. Meanwhile, sister TNT series Murder in the First lost close to half of it’s lead-in audience, a further decline from that shows premiere ratings.

Last weeks season premiere of Major Crimes continued to gain momentum in time-shifted viewing, and was the second most-watched drama across all cable networks, behind only the season finale of Game of Thrones. As we first reported yesterday, the season premiere virtually doubled its viewership in Live + 3, with 7.0 total viewers turning in via DVR and multi-platform views. In key demos Major Crimes tripled its impact, rising to 2 million viewers in adults 25-54, and 1.4 million viewers in adults 18-49. Those numbers are expected to further rise, with the season premiere currently projected to score approximately 8.3 million total viewers once Live + 7 data is available.

Congratulations again to the cast and crew of Major Crimes on 50 amazing episodes!

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