Peacock is turning The Office into a franchise with a new spinoff series
Peacock is turning The Office into a franchise with a new spinoff series
The Office is becoming a franchise with an interconnected universe.
Has there been a successful spinoff in the last 20 years? Excluding the mill show genres that lend themselves to spinoffs like reality, home & garden, police procedural, etc. Basically spinoffs that exist so they can just make more of the same mediocre thing.
I can only think of Better Call Saul. I feel like spinoffs of shows that are actually good as a concept are best left in the 70s & 80s.
It’s worth noting The Office already has two spinoffs, Parks & Rec which basically only became good when it shed 100% of its Office influence, and the horrible Rainn Wilson show that nobody remembers.
The Boys had Gen V which was successful. But I agree with you that there are very few good spinoffs.
and walking dead has about a million spinoffs. not sure if they're any good but they must be successful to some degree since they keep on going and going.
Do you count prequels as spin-off shows? Both Better Call Saul and House of the Dragon are considered to be excellent and successful if so.
Well. I had to look up what you were on about with the Dwight spinoff. It was just an episode that they were attempting to use as a pilot for a spinoff, and it failed.
I remember that episode had a different feel. I had no idea there was a scheme behind it.
Vampire Diaries had multiple spinoffs and out of those The Originals were quite successful, Legacies less so. Legacies was most procedural so there's that.
Yeah I realize what I am considering a “show” is a much more narrow definition that really only exists in my own head lol. YA shows are another genre that lend themselves to spinoffs that forgot about.
I guess what I’m thinking of is critically acclaimed shows that are considered to be good by the majority of the public at the time. But that’s a narrow enough definition that it’s essentially meaningless so I concede the point.
The watchmen, kinda?
Also Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a spin off of Discovery
Isn't all of Star Trek endless spinoffs?
Parks and rec is not a spinoff. It was supposed to be, but they trashed the idea. That Karen became Ann is proof of this.
I haven't seen it, but I hear Young Sheldon did okay.
I was more thinking of shows that are universally considered “good” or at least critically acclaimed. I know a lot of people like BBT (and many hate it deeply) but it doesn’t really come up in conversation when people are discussing good shows.
House of the dragon maybe?
I was going to say Daria, but checked and that ended in 2002.
King of the Hill would also almost count too, but yeah it’s still a stretch considering it started in the 90s.
The article keeps mentioning that The Office ended more than a decade ago but that can’t be right, it was 2-3 years ago tops.
