The tournament consisted of 64 nominated female characters from police procedural shows and several single-elimination rounds, garnering nearly one million votes by the end.

The difference today, Mr. Wolf said, is that a procedural show must be convincingly realistic.

I've never read a pilot like this, and for a guy who has never written a procedural show in his life, he's actually making two cases work".

Mr. Wolf is as likely as anyone to know what "Dragnet," the godfather of all police procedural shows, should be.

"Every moment has to have a meaning, because on a procedural show, it can easily appear that you are doing it by rote," he said.

She and Mojo are shown working as producers on a police procedural show Joe is starring in.

"You're not going to see fans of the procedural shows up all night dissecting the shows," he said.

Maybe I've just watched too many procedural shows, but a fancy car like that draws attention.

There are many procedural shows on television about solving crimes and prosecuting wrongdoers.

ABC also happens to have no procedural shows to hold the fort.