You'd actually have had this one yesterday, but my wireless got wacky sometime after Star Jones' visit. (Just a coincidence, I'm sure.)

Anyway, the word is "faux-cedural," and it came from David Maples, creator of an upcoming USA series, "In Plain Sight," that stars Mary McCormack as a U.S. marshal who works with the federal witness-protection program.

And all it means, as far as I can tell, is that Maples plans to balance weekly stories about individual protected witnesses with ongoing stuff about the regular characters.

Which doesn't sound particularly faux to me. But clearly "procedural" -- most often used to describe the kind of non-serialized cop show that shares DNA with the original "Dragenet" -- has become a dirty word in some circles.