Spin-Off: Difference between revisions

# Where a character leaves a show and the two run concurrently. Characters [[Crossover]] from time to time.

# Where a show comes to an end and a character from it is given his or her own new show. Provides an opportunity to [[Retool]] the character as well.

# The main character is [[Time Skip|revisited elsewhere in his narrative]].

# Reimaginings - the concept is carried into a new show with the same basic premise but other factors and characters are completely new.

Spinoffs are [[Older Than You Think]]. Plantagenet Palliser was a minor character in ''The Small House at Allington'', one of the novels in the Barchester series by [[Anthony Trollope (Creator)|Anthony Trollope]]. Plantagenet Palliser became one of the main characters of Trollope's Palliser series, written in the 1860's and 1870's; further, the character of Falstaff, from Henry IV parts 1 and 2, was given his own play, at Royal request, by [[Shakespeare]].

 

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* ''[[Family Ties]]''--> ''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Being_Nick The Art of Being Nick]''

* ''[[Perfect Strangers]]''--> ''[[Family Matters]]''

* ''[[Star Trek the Next Generation]]'' --> ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]''

* ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'' --> ''Enos''

 

== [[Live Action TV]] ==

* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' --> ''The Golden Palace''

* ''[[Threes Company]]'' --> ''Three's a Crowd''

* ''[[Ugly Betty]]'' --> ''Mode After Dark''

* ''[[Offspring]]'' --> ''The Nurses''