TNT has had both great successes and big disappointments when it comes to their original scripted shows. Which of the current crop will be cancelled or renewed for another season? Stay tuned!
Scripted TNT shows listed: Agent X, The Alienist, Animal Kingdom, Claws, Dallas, Falling Skies, Franklin & Bash, Good Behavior, I Am the Night, The Last Ship, The Lazarus Project, Legends, The Librarians, Major Crimes, Murder in the First, Perception, Proof, Public Morals, Rizzoli & Isles, Snowpiercer, Transporter: The Series, and Will.
Last updated: Most recent ratings added for The Lazarus Project.
There’s lots of data that TNT execs look at when deciding whether to renew or cancel a TV series but ratings are the major ingredient. Here’s an updated listing of all of their recent/current primetime scripted shows.
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A couple of notes about these charts:
These figures are updated automatically as new ratings are released (usually a day or so after the broadcasts). The averages are based on the final national numbers (live plus same day viewing). For technical reasons, I have to resort them manually so feel free to let me know if I missed something.
The demo numbers, which are typically most important to the broadcast networks, aren’t quite as vital to cable channels because their audiences are usually much smaller. Demo numbers are typically reported using the 10ths decimal place (2.4, for example). In the averages, I’m using an extra decimal for easier ranking.
What do you think? Are you surprised by any of the ratings? Which shows should be doing better? Which one do you think will be cancelled next?
Who cancelled Castle? Nobody really wants to see Murder in the First or Rizzoli & Isles or Major Crimes etc! The one good show everyone watches is Castle – renew it please!!!
Speak for yourself! All you have to do is look at the numbers for MC to know you don’t know what you are talking about. MC was forced into a new time slot and has blown their performance out of the water in a time slot that has never had a successful show in it. Maybe you need to look at the drama and ratings that were behind Casthe to understand why it was canceled vs simply going on emotions.
castle was boring. who wanted a brother and sister mystery show.
i was wondering why it lasted so long.
Sorry but CANCEL CASTLE!!!!! I was a CASKETT fan until all of the talk about killing Kate. There is no show without Kate Beckett!
Kate quit so they had to do something about her character – this cancellation was an actor’s fault not the network
#SaveDallas #TNTsucks
I can’t believe Proof was cancelled after only one season!!! Bad mistake! It was my favorite show last year, very thought-provoking, and so much better than some of the really stupid shows coming on such as Angie Tribeca, Two Broke Girls, and Wrecked!
Those shows are not even on the same planet in terms of genre or network. Incomparable.
Animal Kingdom pilot was great. Happy Murder in the First and The Last Ship are back but still miss Dallas.
What????? Only 1 season of Proof?!? Last season of R & I and only half the shows? Major Crimes would be a better show with the return of ” Just plain Brenda”
Dallas-gone
R & I – going
Proof- gone
Closer – gone
Good grief,….are you not the least bit concerned with keeping consumers?
Major Crimes is 1 million times better than the annoying Just Plain Brenda. Also, Kyra CHOSE to leave the show and Major Crimes was developed. It wasn’t canceled.
I watched Agent X a couple of times and really enjoyed it but it seemed that I could never quite determine when it was on….I don’t recall seeing very much in the line of promotion for it.
Cancel the show castle abc ruined the show ratings will only go down financially a lost
I really love Rizzoli & Isles and Proof was my new favorite show. I can’t believe they are ending one before it got good and going and the other at its peek. Rizzoli & Isles could go on as long as Bones has. I have no reason to watch TNT now. However is in charge needs fired. I’m a 36 year old women who has gone back to college and I always found time for these shows, that’s how much I loved them. Goodbye TNT…
I am that way with Major Crimes. The second the last show airs, TNT will lose this viewer forever. I am also in the “demo”.
Are you kidding me? You cancelled Proof, my new favorite show, one of the few I didn’t DVR, had to watch as soon as it came out. You cancelled Perception, never missed an episode, and now Rizzoli and Isles. Who is running that station? They seriously need to go, they are cancelling you right out of viewers and you are letting them. Get rid of him and give us back the best shows on TV, cable or otherwise.
I agree with you 100%. All the shows I like (Perception, proof, agent x) were cancel or on the way out, therefore as soon as R&I is over so its my viewing of TNT. Like you I don’t understand the logic behind the choices TNT executives are making. Right now R&I its the highest rating show, why kill it? I guess that it is time to renew the contract and TNT its not willing to negotiate? and the plan is to end the show that is bringing the viewers=higher $$ from companies to adv during the show. Why will a… Read more »
Cancelling/ending Rizzoli & isles & keeping the librarians ( which has lower numbers) is totally ridiculous !!! Well when u cancel major crimes i won’t have any reason to watch tnt at all. And btw 18-49 yr olds watch Netflix & DVDs .
I absolutely love Rizzoli and Isles! Hopefully there is a smart tv executive that will renew it on another network since TNT execs are ignoring good ratings.
I am in a older age bracket than you 18-49 age range.
According to the rating rozzille &Isles has the 2nd spot. So for that reason you should keep it going. And also maybe change the day you show the program. All these series are on Monday and Tuesday. Why not put it on Wednesday or Friday
the TNT EXEC IDIOTS cancelled longmire because of us people over 49.It was THE HIGHEST RATED SERIES ON TNT.
Longmire was not on TNT…it was on A&E …..
Thumbs up, Maria. TNT has their own screw ups. They don’t need any other network’s idiotic decisions thrown on their plates.
You’re right Edith…Wednesday nights are a tv wasteland as far as I’m concerned…there are some days when I have 10-12 shows that I like, but as stated, W’s are nearly barren….if R&I or some of the others were featured in the middle of the week their ratings would probably skyrocket!!!
Happy to read that Major Crimes have renewd.
Hope there is gonna be a season 5 and 6 from Major Crimes.
(And many more season from Major Crimes.)
You can get rid of Major Crimes, it’s run its course and the sub plot with the kid is unnecessary. Bring back something with quality instead like Legends.
Please do not cancel Rizzoli & Isles. I’ve been watching TNT for many years, and this is one of the few shows where the story lines are fun and exciting, the chemistry between characters feels real and is extremely funny, and doesn’t require the use of bad language or “adult” situations to be entertaining. Canceling an outstanding show, such as Rizzoli & Isles, due to low ratings by viewers in the 18-49 age bracket is absurd and annoying – they aren’t the majority of TV viewers these days. Please, please keep the show.