| Courtroom procedurals this nimble don't come along often, but with Anatomy of a Murder, Preminger showed how it could be done. |
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| All the attention was on high-end drama, with very few sitcoms, procedurals or soaps to be found. |
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| I read village mysteries and hard-boiled American private eye novels, spy thrillers and police procedurals. |
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| Unlike today's top-rated procedurals, the program never relied on gross-out gore to hold the viewer's attention. |
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| While most police procedurals are foolish, 1 in 100 will give a forensic expert the shivers. |
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| Most TV drama consists of long-running series in a few dependable genres such as police and medical procedurals. |
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| It doesn't craft stylized types and freeze-dry them, as do most police procedurals. |
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| As far as police procedurals go, either version of Insomnia is slightly above average. |
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| It showed that there was a considerable appetite for police procedurals on television, and was followed by a number of pseudo-exotic, weird and not so wonderful series. |
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| For Huston, the show represents an alternative to the slew of violent procedurals on television at the moment. |
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| With Leonard on board as a consultant to the show, this will hopefully keep the stories interesting and not your typical police procedurals week after week. |
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| But she also wonders if Sayers would feel any kinship to today's grisly police procedurals, filled with random killings and clinical crime details. |
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| Nevertheless, I urge fans of police procedurals to look around for a markdown price, since this is a solid mystery series that many will enjoy adding to their collection. |
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| If, for example, you've been reading Ed McBain's 97th Precinct police procedurals for the past 30 years, you may be delighted to discover you're not the only one who's hooked. |
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| The film may not be as elegant as the previous financial procedurals, and Costa-Gavras' brief forays into cinematic trickery threaten our suspension of disbelief. |
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| A parody of a police manual that made fun of the conventions of 1970s British police procedurals like The Sweeney. |
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| It is only fitting that the investigation of place-based police procedurals begins in America, where the police procedural was invented and turned into a literary art form. |
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| Not noir, but owing a bit to noir, not horror, but owing a bit to the horror genre, they are sometimes police procedurals, other times haunting precog fantasies. |
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