In the idealized America of CBS procedurals, cops can do no wrong

You may not have noticed but the fall television season has arrived, that time of the year the broadcast networks still make a production out of rolling out the new makes and models. CBS, which likes its new season to look a lot like its last, has added programs to its three ongoing lines of what I think of as Acronym Procedurals: “NCIS: Hawai’i,” which premiered Sept. 20; “FBI International” which bowed the following day; and “CSI: Vegas,” which is more or less a relaunch of “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” the first of that brood and debuts Wednesday. And “CSI: Vegas,” though erected on old ground, does provide a fresh cast for returning players Jorja Fox, William Petersen, Paul Guilfoyle and Wallace Langham to join — under the command of another woman of color, Paula Newsome — in its upgraded laboratory full of cutting-edge gizmos that end in “oscope” or “ograph.” Besides the basic business plan of taking something that has worked in the past and doing it again and again — the very definition of CBS, some would say, but certainly not unique to that network — franchising adds a sort of third dimension. Most of these series come into the world through “backdoor pilots,” where an episode of an established series introduces a coming spinoff; indeed, the opening episode of “FBI: International” concludes a sort of triple play that began on “FBI,” and ran through “FBI: Most Wanted.” Vanessa Lachey is an investigator of military-related crime in “NCIS: Hawai’i,” on CBS. Just add a new city to the title like they do on “Real Housewives,” and you’ve got your next show: “NCIS: Poughkeepsie,” “FBI: Sioux Falls,” “CSI: Seattle.” You can Mad Libs the rest.