In the US: Fridays, 10pm ET/PT, CBS
In the UK: Five, Five US, ITV1 and ITV3 in some sort of rota system, some time next year
Think CBS and if you know your US networks, you’ll probably think ‘procedural’ immediately afterwards. If it’s not existing stalwarts like the entire CSI stable, NCIS and The Unit filling the airwaves, we’ve The Eleventh Hour and The Mentalist this season as well.
Then there’s Numb3rs, which seems to exist simply to add yet another procedural to the CBS body count – and to win family programming prizes. A sub-exciting series in which the FBI seem incapable of solving even the basic crimes without recourse to a genius mathematician and his nerdy friends, it’s been lurking on Friday nights for years and has now reached season five.
And I’m still watching it. I have no idea why.