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Article: `Criminal Minds' slips into Super slot.
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- Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA)
- Article date:
- January 31, 2007
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Byline: Chuck Barney
CBS executives apparently don't like it when we use the "p-word" to describe "Criminal Minds," the fast-rising show that airs in the cozy post-Super Bowl time slot Sunday.
They point out that, unlike all the other procedurals that have spread across prime time like a virus, the sophomore series about FBI profilers contains some elements of suspense and even tiny traces of personality.
But let's not fool ourselves. "Criminal Minds" mimics its predecessors in more ways than it deviates from them. At the top of the hour, a bunch of grim-faced investigators, led by Mandy Patinkin and Thomas Gibson, are presented with a ghastly ...