QUOTE OF THE DAY

How to Write TV Crime Dramas

A writer’s satirical tips on writing police procedurals

Thomas Gibson as an FBI agent on the crime drama “Criminal Minds” / Credit: CBS

Paul Rudnick may be best known for writing the screenplays for movies like Sister Act and Addams Family Values. But subscribers to The New Yorker also know him as a contributor to its humorous “Shouts & Murmurs” column.