With 'The Closer' gone, 'Major Crimes' carries on the police procedural, with familiar faces and a nice balance between the tragic and comic. Like one relay runner to the next, TNT's police procedural"The Closer" hands its baton, or nightstick, to"Major C more

“Major Crimes,” a TNT police procedural series, uses characters and the setting from “The Closer,” with Mary McDonnell instead of Kyra Sedgwick in the lead. http://feeds.nytimes.com/click.phdo?i=87645a268d11f239e77a4d3623043095