Unlike today's top-rated procedurals, the program never relied on gross-out gore to hold the viewer's attention. |
For Huston, the show represents an alternative to the slew of violent procedurals on television at the moment. |
All the attention was on high-end drama, with very few sitcoms, procedurals or soaps to be found. |
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. |
I read village mysteries and hard-boiled American private eye novels, spy thrillers and police procedurals. |
While most police procedurals are foolish, 1 in 100 will give a forensic expert the shivers. |