Law and Order, N-C-I-S, House, Criminal Minds, CSI, these are all procedural television shows.

Now, what does that mean?

I'm going to define a procedural for you.

A procedural television show is a show with a consistent episodic format where a problem,

which is usually a crime or a mystery, is introduced, solved, and resolved within the same episode.

Procedurals are usually considered to be the comfort food of television.

They are predictable.

They're satisfying and they're endlessly rewatchable.

So, Ashley, let me ask you, why do audiences keep coming back to procedural shows

even though they know exactly how they're going to end? They know they're going to resolve

the issue. First of all, procedurals have such a stranglehold on American pop culture and like Western television that when you said

law and order, I had to fight the urge to go, done, done.

Like it's so just proliferates.

Should I bring that?

Television culture.

I guarantee you somebody has that sound effect.

No, don't do it.

Don't worry about it.

But the answer to your question, I think you've answered it in the phrasing of your question.

We like it because we know exactly what's going to happen. It's the same thing that we love about

an episode of reality television. If you watch enough reality television, you know how the whole

series is going to go. Forget how one episode is going to go. I can tell you who's going to win

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