#Procedural

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TV 2000–2015

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

The Vegas crime lab that took over primetime. CSI premiered on CBS in 2000 and turned forensic science into television's dominant formula — William Petersen's Gil Grissom, The Who's "Who Are You" over the credits, and spinoffs from Miami to New York. It got so big that real juries started expecting what the show delivered every week.

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TV 2002–2012

CSI: Miami

Horatio Caine turns to the camera, delivers the pun, puts on the sunglasses — and The Who scream "YEAAAH." The first CSI spin-off gave David Caruso the comeback nobody expected, made the cold-open one-liner an internet meme, and in 2006 was named the most popular show in the world.