Televisioin Crime Shows

I've noticed that in all my favorite crime drama shows they make each show like the last. That way you know what you are tuning into. They change just enough of it, so you think you have a new show, but it's not really. It follows along with the same idea of past lives. For those of you who believe in past lives, supposedly we keep doing the same things over and over again trying to get it right. So, goes with tv. Take for example the show 24. Jack Bower's daughter gets herself into one jam after another, and she is very well experienced with being held hostage, having a gun to her head with only seconds left to live. And as soon as her father thinks that she is on her way to safety, she is actually headed in the oposite direction which enevitably is, right into the loving arms of danger. I just don't think I could handle it if she were to head to safety, my brain might implode.