| Unlike today's top-rated procedurals, the program never relied on gross-out gore to hold the viewer's attention. |
| 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. |
| It doesn't craft stylized types and freeze-dry them, as do most police procedurals. |
| I read village mysteries and hard-boiled American private eye novels, spy thrillers and police procedurals. |
| As far as police procedurals go, either version of Insomnia is slightly above average. |
| Courtroom procedurals this nimble don't come along often, but with Anatomy of a Murder, Preminger showed how it could be done. |
