Is a Major Crimes season 7 pickup possible?

Is there still hope for a Major Crimes season 7 yet, even though TNT has already announced that the sixth one is meant to be its last? Let’s just say that this is a little bit complicated a question to answer.

In a perfect world, of course most of the parties involved would want to continue the show in some capacity and there would be interested networks/streaming providers to pick it up. In the case of Major Crimes it does feel like the cast would love to keep going. However, finding said interested party is difficult. This is what show executive producer James Duff said on the subject to TVLine:

“I don’t know if there is another platform for this show, if anybody is interested in our audience. And I can’t say for sure whether we could do that or not. There are a lot of complications involved.”

There are always complications with bringing a show elsewhere, with many of them involving either money or boring contractual stuff. We’d love to say that the show has a good shot, and that there is probably someone out there like an Amazon or a Hulu who would love to have the show. Would Major Crimes fans all spend the money just to watch this show? We feel like there are enough viewers of the show who don’t have subscriptions already who would be interested in buying one just to watch. (Duff made it clear to the outlet that Netflix probably isn’t a possibility, and that’s starting to make sense more when you consider that so many people already have subscriptions there  — how many new ones would they acquire for this show?)

One of the other interesting things that comes out of this piece are the comments from Duff that Major Crimes is “not an expensive show to do” and that “[TNT is] not cancelling it because it costs a lot of money. They just want the money for something else.” Basically, this really does seem to be all about the network’s continued attempts to shift their brand away from the very thing that first made them successful as a programmer of original content: Police / detective shows featuring unique characters. That is a bummer and it’s a source of frustration, but unfortunately we’ve seen this same sort of attitude befall Longmire and other shows in the past.

One thing that Major Crimes and Longmire have in common is that both were canceled despite strong viewership. We’d love to say here at CarterMatt that Major Crimes is also going to find a new home that recognizes that its viewer base matters just as much as any other show, but revivals are still a very rare thing in this business. You hear about them more, but the majority of the save-our-show campaigns don’t end up going anywhere in the end. What you really should do is prepare for this to be the end of the series and get excited if something different happens down the road.

What do you want to see in regards to the future of Major Crimes?

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