Or, the Angie Harmon effect

DallasNews.com: "Last season, a third of the Top 40 shows on television were procedurals, loosely defined as programs that depict a crime each week and solve it. Most of the other top-rated programs were reality shows or comedies, with only six dramas having nothing to do with crime making the list."

I blame it on the BGoPCD effect (beautiful girls of procedural crime dramas), which include every ADA ever and ever on Law and Order. God knows, we don't watch that show for that wank Watterson or Orbach's Borscht Belt schtick.