Comments on: Why a ‘Major Crimes’ season 6 renewal is more important now than ever

By: Era Kosakowski

Era Kosakowski — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 19:18:00 +0000

TNT has been trying to get the show canceled for a few seasons now. It’s awful because they have the viewership and loyalty, but with the new person in charge of programming, it isn’t getting the love. The new-ish (he’s been there a couple years now) President of the network explicitly said he didn’t like crime shows and wanted to change the programming of the network to be geared more toward reality programming. It’s going to keep changing time slots.

By: Naomi B.

Naomi B. — Sun, 25 Dec 2016 22:36:00 +0000

I am still at the point where I don’t see this as a bad thing. I was more concerned with the football competition that came into play as it is something that had to be watched live and we saw very clear rating drops in the demo when football started.

I am more irked at the move back to 9/8 pm. While the good news is that we will get our repeat back in the 8/7 pm slot, the racer shows will be gone.

My firm belief is that the procedural TNT is bringing is MC:SOB and that they are using MC as the lead in, like was done with the closer/Major Crimes. TNT’S new programs are sucking in the ratings, even AK. Now we’re hearing potential loss of Tales from the Crypt-another one of their potential rockstars. They can’t afford to lose MC. I can’t see them risking it. TNT continues to drop in advertising revenue generation.

By: quinquin

quinquin — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 20:53:00 +0000

“Major Crimes” will be back in February and I’m really thrilled about that. And yet – I still have a bad feeling about all this. As you said, it’s one of the most successful scripted original shows ever on TNT, still outperforming most of the cable network’s other originals. And it’s safe to say it’s easily the best thing they currently have. So why do they so desperately try to hide it, or worse, bury it? That’s beyond me. – As for me, I usually don’t watch any of the other shows airing at the same time. So no real problem there for me. But my worries about the future of Major Crimes, this exceptional gem on TV, would definitely be put at ease if the renewal would be announced (very) soon!

By: Borderbuddies

Borderbuddies — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 12:21:00 +0000

You are so right. I really don’t understand what the point is of moving Major Crimes to a different day. It really seems that TNT wants to force Major Crimes to fail.. For whatever reason. It would be sad if It went, as there is nothing which is equally good. I hope TNT comes to it’s senses… One can but hope.

By: Insurgent

Insurgent — Wed, 21 Dec 2016 11:03:00 +0000

I am right with you, Matt. Since the survival of a show is mostly a numbers game, changing the time slot yet again is a pretty dangerous move. I am quite sure that the loyal fandom will follow, no matter what. It’s the occasional viewers I am worried about. In contrast to their new shows, TNT doesn’t take much effort in promoting Major Crimes although it is one of their most successful. Thus, most of the occasional viewers won’t even realize that it’s back, much less bother to get used to the new time-slot especially with the big networks airing strong competitors at the same time. I wonder if this decision was made explicitly to eradicate the show?