Procedural

How it is used

Used as a genre noun for many police, medical or investigative television dramas.

Example sentences

1. The procedural introduces a new missing-person case at the start of each episode.

   A recurring case structure organizes individual episodes.

2. Our procedural includes family stories without losing the weekly investigation.

   Personal plots can accompany the main professional case.

Common collocations

• police procedural
• medical procedural

Related terms

• seriesA TV or streaming programme made of many episodes that share the same characters, subject or story.
• episodeOne part of a TV series, podcast or web series that is broadcast or released as a separate programme.

More terms: Television Formats and Series

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