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Halfway through its summer season, Major Crimes continues to set new records in the ratings, solidifying its status as one of this summers strongest series.

This week’s outing brought in 4.02 million viewers, and easily won the night as the Most Watched Basic Cable Program. In key demographics the episode also stayed steady with the rest of the summer season, with 0.5 million viewers 18-49 tuning in. While the 4th of July holiday weekend caused an expected drop in live+ same day ratings, the drop was minimal and steady with the rest of the summer season so far.

Meanwhile, TNT’s Monday night lead-out series Murder in the First continued to struggle in both total viewers and the demographic, continuing with its week-to-week downward trend, losing over 51% and 60%, respectively, of the Major Crimes audience.

Last week’s record-setting episode of Major Crimes continued to dominate, and finished as the Most Watched Basic Cable Program of the Week, beating out all other scripted, reality and sports programs. Major Crimes continues to top TNT’s other summer programming as well, including the most recent episodes of Falling Skies (1.82/0.4), Proof (2.9/0.4) and The Last Ship (2.6/2.0.7).

In time-delayed ratings, Major Crimes made even bigger gains, with episode 402 increasing viewership by over 96% in Live + 7 day, for a total of 7.5 million total viewers, and a massive 220% increase in key demographics for a total of 1.6 million viewers 18-49. Meanwhile, episode 403 likewise saw significant increases, rising 36% to 5.77 million viewers in Live + 3.

Overall Major Crimes continues to outperform the rest of TNT’s summer slate, with an average of 9.7 million viewers per episode across all platforms.