TNT Renews 'Major Crimes' for Second Season

Crime drama to return in summer 2013

By Andrea Morabito -- Broadcasting & Cable, 9/27/2012 1:28:07 PM

TNT has renewed its Closer spinoff Major Crimes, ordering a 15-episode second season of the drama.

The Warner Bros. crime drama, which stars Mary McDonnell, is the year's top-rated new drama on cable, averaging nearly 7 million viewers. In the key demos, Major Crimes is drawing 1.6 million adults 18-49 and 2.1 million adults 25-54, ranking it behind fellow TNT dramas The Closer (which ended its run this summer) and Rizzoli & Isles.

Major Crimes' first season finale airs in mid-October with the second season to return in summer 2013.

TNT has already renewed its other new summer dramas, Dallas and Perception.