TNT Scores With Rizzoli & Isles, Closer Tandem

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TNT’s new original series Rizzoli & Isles got off to a rip-roaring start Monday night, drawing 7.55 million total viewers leading out of the season-six premiere of The Closer.

The Angie Harmon-Sasha Alexander crime drama retained a whopping 99 percent of its 9 p.m. Closer lead-in (7.66 million viewers), making it one of the biggest debuts in cable history. (On Sept. 1, 2008, TNT drew 7.74 million live-plus-same-day viewers with the commercial-free debut of the Steven Bochco courthouse drama Raising the Bar.)

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