I don't understand why we're making the procedural bucket so big.

I don't think it's big. ::shrug:: It's a subset of the larger television discussion. Seems to me that's filtering it down.

You mean that you don't want which comedies in this thread? There really are only a couple that get any sort of conversation at all: HIMYM and the Office. Possibly some of the Fox cartoons. And TDS and the Colbert Report. That's maybe 6 or 7 things.

I agree with sumi.

I don't think it's big. ::shrug:: It's a subset of the larger television discussion. Seems to me that's filtering it down.

SA, I think the concern is that current discussion is white-fonted in Natter (or other threads), so there's no risk of spoilage, no matter how many shows are being discussed. The problem with having a big bucket is that we would be moving discussion of each show into a venue that either isn't whitefonted or is only whitefonted for a short period of time, so it's "big" because you have to be caught up on all of the shows you want to watch before you can go into the thread to talk about one without fear.

I'm personally less concerned about being spoiled for procedurals than I am for many other shows, but I just wanted to clarify why some see the bucket is "bigger" even though it is filtered down from general TV-talk.

Well, how big is this bucket? I see Bones and House as being fairly strong draws. WAT and Cold Case probaby a step down from those. The CSI/L&Os I think seem to be more "hey, so-and-so's guest-starring" than actual discussion. What else? Oh, Numbers, I'd guess, might be up there with Bones and House, or close.

Other shows I'm missing? Because so far, that doesn't sound like it would be too much to keep up with or be spoiler-avoidy.

Are there interesting new shows that would fit?

List of procedural-ish shows on broadcast TV this season:

Bones
Cold Case
Criminal Minds
CSI
CSI: Miami
CSI: NY
House
K-ville (I'm not 100% sure if this one is a procedural)
Law & Order
Law & Order: SVU
Medium
NCIS
Numb3rs
Without a Trace
Women’s Murder Club

Medium?

Hmmm.

What about Canterbury's Law? New Fox show with Julianne Margulies and Aidan Quinn. (Could be procedural -- not sure.)

I'm not sure about that one. Or the show about the cop wrongfully convicted who gets cleared and tries to resume his old life, which I think is Life.

Canterbury's Law sounds like it could be. I don't think K-Ville will fit, but I could be wrong. Dunno about Women's Murder Club - it sounds a little more soapy, but who knows.

Criminal Minds I could see being a discussiony show. Is Medium procedural? I haven't seen it.

So, to me, it looks like maybe a core of 5-7 shows that might have sustained discussion, and a handful of one-off post type shows besides.

What's the general reaction to that? Is that too big a bucket?

I met on Women's Murder Club and it was pretty procedural.

I think part of my reason for thinking this isn't a particularly large bucket is because I was basing off the poll results, which identified House and Bones as the strongest draws, with Criminal Minds, WAT, and Numb3rs as less so. The results may have changed since then; I don't know. But having a a core few with a handful of "OMG James Marsters is a serial killer on CSI *again*" posts doesn't, to me, mean a big bucket. I'm sure people disagree with that, but hey, that's voting for you.

With regards to the spoiler/whitefont thing--that's up for voting too. If it's an issue for enough people, it will shake out in the vote. I'm not trying to disregard what people think, but I do believe that the process works with regards to these issues.