Could the Major Crimes season 6 ratings help season 7 odds?

While we haven’t gotten a chance to see some of the first Major Crimes season 6 ratings as of yet, it goes without saying there’s a lot of interest there from the CarterMatt team. After all, this is a show that was recently canceled by TNT before the new season even premiered! With a show as good as this one, we’re looking for any reason to believe that Major Crimes has a chance at coming back. The odds may be slim, but why would we let that stop us from holding out a certain degree of hope?

For the time being, the biggest thing we have to consider is this: The odds of Major Crimes finding another home are slim. Very slim. We want to be optimistic, but we also recognize that there’s a difference between optimism and false hope. We absolutely don’t want to start handing out the latter, but we do wonder what happens in the event that Major Crimes impresses with better ratings in season 6 than anyone anticipated it would draw? Would that be enough to somehow turn the tide in the show’s favor?

Right now, what we know is this: Over season 5, the series averaged (as a whole) a 0.4 rating in the 18-49 demographic and 3.2 million viewers. When you look across the board on cable in particular, this numbers aren’t bad — the total viewer count is actually pretty impressive and better than a few shows out there on the Big Four networks. We feel like we’ve already talked about dubious TNT decisions here to death so we don’t want to get into that again – other than saying that in premiering Major Crimes at 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday night TNT isn’t really doing the show any favors.

Now when it comes to what could happen from here with Major Crimes, what we wonder is this: What if the show averages a 0.5 rating, or manages to bring in either the same or more viewers for its final season? Could that cause a change and have some new players coming to the table to pick up the show up? We do think interesting things could happen if the ratings stay about even or if they rise, mostly because that’s a rare feat for any show these days — especially a cable show this far into its run.

So if you love this show our advice is this: Watch Major Crimes live and make sure some of your friends and family do so as well — with this season being more about arcs than individual episodes we could see it being appealing to younger people out there who do love the whole binge-watching model and having a story to follow every week.

What do you want the Major Crimes season 6 ratings to be? Be sure to share right now in the comments!

Meanwhile, you can head over to the link here in the event you want to score some additional news when it comes to the series, including our series of red carpet interviews featuring some various cast members!

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