‘The Closer’ Has Strong Opening Over ‘Raising the Bar’
The procedural heavy hitting series ‘The Closer’ and ‘Raising the Bar’ on the TNT network saw different-sized audiences on Monday night. ‘The Closer’, an American crime drama, almost matched the numbers of its debut last year, while ‘Raising the Bar’, an American law drama, dropped significantly.
‘The Closer’ premiered season five at 9pm on Monday night, delivering its typically huge amount of viewers, with a 7.1 million audience. Its premier of season four was 9 percent higher, but the show still had the largest cable audience for a scripted series telecast this year so far.
The premier of ‘Raising the Bar’ season two came on at 10pm Monday night, but half of the audience who had just viewed ‘The Closer’ changed the channel. This left the show with only 3.6 million viewers, which is a 53% decline to the 7.7 million viewers for the show’s premiere last September.
‘The Closer’ stars: Kyra Sedgwick as Brenda Leigh Johnson, the Deputy Chief of the Priority Homicide Division in Los Angeles; J.K. Simmons as Will Pope; Corey Reynolds as David Gabriel; Robert Gossett as Russell Taylor; G.W. Bailey as Provenza; Tony Denison as Andy Flynn; Michael Paul Chan as Michael Tao; Raymond Cruz as Julio Sanchez; Gina Ravera as Irene Daniels; Phillip P. Keene as Buzz Watson; and Jon Tenney as Fritz Howard.
Starring the show is: Mark-Paul Gosselaar as Jerry Kellerman; Gloria Reuben as Rosalind Whitman; Jane Kaczmarek as Trudy Kessler; Melissa Sagemiller as Michelle Ernhardt; Jonathan Scarfe as Charlie Sagansky; J. August Richards as Marcus McGrath; Currie Graham as Nick Balco; Teddy Sears as Richard Patrick Woolsley; and Natalia Cigliuti as Roberta “Bobbi” Gilardi.