Each episode also reveals the killers and victims at the start of the show, unusual in police procedural dramas.

With the Dragnet formula no longer in place, the program had the feel of a more typical procedural drama.

It is a procedural drama, but the procedural dramas always seem to work.

Bailey's case was being called next to last, so we were treated to a number of minor procedural dramas.

Serials are typically contrasted with procedural drama which rely on a more stand-alone, often referred to as "case-of-the-week", format.

Since the indictments, Federal and state prosecutors have been involved in a complex legal procedural drama about where or when the two Washington lawyers would be tried.

The series format combines elements from procedural dramas as well as those found in serials.

In general, procedural dramas can usually be re-run with little concern for episode order.

He refers to his new procedural drama as "character-cedural."

In the age of megahit reality shows and procedural dramas, serial drama had been written off as passé.