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Yesterday, TNT announced its Major Crimes TV show would end with the upcoming sixth season. Now, creator James Duff, and star Mary McDonnell are reacting to the news that Major Crimes is ending, and it sounds like a cancellation to us. Check out their reactions, below, and let us know what you think.
A sequel to the Kyra Sedgwick crime drama, The Closer, Major Crimes made its TNT debut back in August of 2012. The police procedural series also stars G.W. Bailey, Tony Denison, Michael Paul Chan, Raymond Cruz, Phillip P. Keene, Graham Patrick Martin, Kearran Giovanni, Jonathan Del Arco, Leonard Roberts, Jessica Meraz and Daniel di Tomasso. Jon Tenney, Ransford Doherty, Kathe Mazur, Rene Rosado, Dawnn Lewis, and Bill Brochtrup recur. The sixth and final season premieres on Halloween, October 31st, at 9:00pm (ET/PT). TNT says two-episode series finale will air on Tuesday, January 16, 2018.
Creator James Duff Responds to the Major Crimes TV Series Cancellation
On Facebook, Duff makes it clear that the decision to end Major Crimes was not his idea and was not a creative one. In addition to saying he does not want to leave the drama series, Duff says, “The actors, the writers, the producers and our talented crew would have held on as long as we were relevant.” He also goes on to thank the viewers for following Major Crimes even as it was bounced from timeslot to timeslot. Check it out.
Major Crimes Star Mary McDonnell Addresses Series Cancellation
McDonnell, who has starred as Commander Sharon Raydor since the TV show premiere, says she is not surprised that TNT cancelled Major Crimes, saying, “The writing was clearly on the wall.” As you can see in her Instagram post, below, while she is proud of what they’ve accomplished, she is still trying to make sense of the cable network’s choices.
Major Crimes: A Look at the Ratings
Although the sixth and final season of Major Crimes does not premiere until the end of October, and the show’s Nielsen ratings did drop off last year, it remains one of TNT’s strongest TV shows.
The fifth season of Major Crimes averaged a 0.38 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.19 million viewers. While that is down by 26% and 11% (respectively) over season four, it still beats out most of TNT’s original, scripted TV shows.
In season five, it drew a larger total viewership than any other original series on the cable network. In fact, Major Crimes‘ average total audience surprassed the third season of The Librarians, by more than a million viewers and the fourth season of The Last Ship, by about 1.5 million.
In terms of its demo ratings, Major Crimes‘ ranks third out of TNT TV series. It comes in right after The Librarians and the new crime dramedy, Claws.
What do you think? Are you a fan of the Major Crimes TV show? Is it ending at the right time? Should TNT have cancelled or renewed this TV series for a seventh season?
Major Crime a TNT top rated show. Why on earth have they cancelled it. Who ever is in charge has no business sence. You give your customers what they want or they don’t come back. Ratings = Revenue. No Revenue = No TNT. You should keep your top rated shows as the new ones may not bring in the ratings or revenue. TNT stop cancelling your best shows because very soon it could be you that gets cancelled. #savemajorcrimes
Best show ever!!! Renew, renew!!!!
Always better to go out on top rather than dying a slow painful death.
Okay I am begging you to reconsider this ! It is the worst idea . There are many more stories to tell! I consider the cast my extended family ! I love them and you are breaking my heart ! In two
Of course it must get renewed! They had the most viewers. Season 5 was unbelievable strong and good. 6 will probably be even better. TNT is age discriminating ! I wonder if they really know what they have done.. TNT is making a big mistake!. Why must something end while it’s doing so great!?!? James A Duff has so much more to show us. The actors have so much experience. They are the best! They are awesome for their fans. And TNT takes it all away from us and them..one of the biggest fandoms shattered by TNT. I’m beyond disappointed… Read more »
TNT has made fool moves for the last few seasons.
And the only reason for Nielsen dropoff was the time slot change to Wednesdays to kill the show and justify its fool decision.
Each season, from the beginning, I have looked forward to the next. It’s one of the few series that is really good on every level. It’s unfortunate that this decision has been made despite the fact that the numbers are still high (as noted in the article), the writing is still intelligent, and none of the actors are falling down on the job. It seems television executives have taken to prematurely yanking good programs only to replace them with very questionable decisions, that often don’t last. I have often wondered what medication they were on when they do these things.… Read more »
Sure will miss Major Crimes, one of the best series I have ever seen and hope another network picks it up, still think there is a good future for this great crime series.
We should all boycott them ending Major Crimes. I love watching it and looked forward to it’s return. This other crap that TNT is bringing on I will not be watching. Execellent cast and all will be missed. They get rid of the good shows and bring other crap on that no one is interested in seeing. Thank you Major Crimes for 5 seasons. I challenge others to let their voices be heard and maybe they will bring it back on TNT or another network?
There’s an upcoming season that’s going to be the final season.
Oh, come on! The creator, the director, and the stars all say the same! Another stellar show down the tubes. Why? What? Who? I’ll never figure it out!
I knew they were going to kill it a month or two back their website was obvious they were not even promoting repeats it was hard to find their page the marketing just wasn’t there marketing , branding a show can and often does shore up ratings . TNT and USA have made questionable decisions on terminating the good shows and promoting the ones that target a narrower demographic audience . Major Crimes targeted the right demographics did no leg work in marketing . I have been in and worked on Indies that had better marketing .
TNT has gone way down hill. I used to watch, TNT USA and TBS almost exclusively but more and more they take away great shows that I watch every week and put in some crappy show, more and more reality television. I will miss Major Crimes, but I am not surprised. All the networks have gone downhill. Every show I love gets cancelled and reality tv sets in. Not much of a reason to pay for cable television anymore
I will truly miss Major Crimes, one of the best shows on TNT and any other network..I have watched it when it was the Closer and continued to watch it when it became Major Crimes..this is a huge mistake to take it off the air and I know I am not the only one that feels this way. Shame on TNT.
This is such BS. Fans are already on a mission to save the show. In less than 12 hours have gathered over 1100 signatures to try to get another network or streaming platform to pick it up. The second highest watched show and over 10 million viewers is not ready to be cancelled. After 13 years, it still performs better than ANY of Reilly’s Pet Projects. As a business woman, I have never wished bad for any business, but will LMAO when TNT allows Reilly to take it down in flames.
Petitions never work – these pittly fan efforts in the thousands won’t save a show that has millions of viewers.
thank you all job well done i love all of you. 14344