Talk:List of Police Procedural Fandoms

I'm not too sure about 'police procedural' being the best possible term here, but I couldn't think of anything better to describe this group of fandoms that see to have quite a lot of overlap. --Ruuger (talk) 16:19, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

There is overlap on this list with shows that to me are more "buddy cop." I think of police procedual as lots of science, clue-solving, and less emphasis on car chases and such. --Mrs. Potato Head (talk) 16:27, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

That's avery good point. Bones and Rizzoli & Isles are definitely het and femslash versions, respectively, of a buddy cop show, but they're also both very obviously procedurals with fannish overlap with shows like NCIS and Elementary, so there is overlap between the two categories. Ig uess the distinction could be focus on cases vs. focus on chemistry between the (two main) characters, but then that would make shows like Castle more of a buddy cop show, when IME its fandom is very unlike that of (slashy) buddy cop shows like due South and more like, say, that of CSI.

(and now I'm wondering where Sherlock Holmes(es) would fall on the scale...) --Ruuger (talk) 17:07, 29 April 2013 (UTC)

Does the list need to be specific to police procedurals? Because in my head there's a large "procedural" category of which the police procedurals are simply the biggest subset -- I'd tease out the non-police crime procedurals (like Sherlock Holmes & its adaptations, Murder, She Wrote, Psych, Person of Interest etc. where it's still a crime procedural but the lead characters are private parties instead of law enforcement), then also have, for example, a medical procedural category for shows like House and a legal procedural category for shows like JAG that are still structured like a procedural but focused on something other than crime-solving. I like wikipedia's definition: "In television, "procedural" specifically refers to a genre of programs in which a problem is introduced, investigated and solved all within the same episode. These shows tend to be hour-long dramas, and are often (though not always) police or crime related." --PhoenixFalls (talk) 09:54, 13 September 2014 (UTC)