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Peacock is turning The Office into a franchise with a new spinoff series (www.theverge.com)
submitted 6 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/television@lemmy.world
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[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

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.

[–] teft@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago (2 children)

The Boys had Gen V which was successful. But I agree with you that there are very few good spinoffs.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is the first I'm hearing about this, and I'm terminally online, and am a fan of The Boys.

I guess the downside of sailing the seven seas is missing out on all the ~~predatory targeted advertising~~ bespoke entertainment recommendations

[–] teft@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Or get access to a better site. I only sail the seas and I was watching it the day it came out.

[–] felbane@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

One of these days I'll sit down and figure out how to build a proper seedbox (with VPN and the appropriate *arr variants) so I can set up Trakt for these kinds of recommendations.

[–] acosmichippo@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] GlitterInfection@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 10 points 6 months ago

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.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Farm_(The_Office)

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] misk@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You don't consider it a show because you think it's aimed at teens but it's actually aimed at grown up women. Give it a shot, plot is tastefully over the top and production values are pretty good. I cried at the end of The Originals and I'm not ashamed of it!

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

I’ve watched the entire Jenny Nicholson video on The Vampire Diaries like 3 times so I’m definitely familiar. Not for me personally, but I can appreciate the appeal.

Didn’t mean to denigrate it or anything.

[–] Plastic_Ramses@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

The watchmen, kinda?

Also Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a spin off of Discovery

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Isn't all of Star Trek endless spinoffs?

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Yes. Yes, it is.

[–] Kayday@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I haven't seen it, but I hear Young Sheldon did okay.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 3 points 6 months ago

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.

[–] SrTobi@feddit.de 2 points 6 months ago

House of the dragon maybe?

[–] DODOKING38@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Was Fraser in the last 20 years?

[–] Slimthickens@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

The last episode of Frasier aired 20 years ago as of next Monday.

[–] jve@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

The last episode of Frasier was in December 2023

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frasier_(2023_TV_series)

[–] EvilLootbox@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was going to say Daria, but checked and that ended in 2002.

[–] shinratdr@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

King of the Hill would also almost count too, but yeah it’s still a stretch considering it started in the 90s.

[–] jqubed@lemmy.world 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

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.