Talk:List of television spin-offs

message: Isn't the 2005 revival of Doctor Who basically just a continuation of the show (which, officially, was only ever on hiatus, never cancelled)? It has the same protagonist and many of the same villains, and is openly part of the same continuity as the TV series and TV movie. Wouldn't it make more sense to condense the two separate entries into a single row? 202.22.242.242 (talk) 15:50, 29 January 2020 (UTC)
thread_title: Is Doctor Who a spin-off of Doctor Who?

message: I think that whoever added the tables did a wonderful job, but unfortunately it makes the article harder to read, not easier, and the tables don't really work when there are spin-offs of spin-offs, which is frequently. Should we change it back? --Mister Six (talk) 04:58, 19 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Remove tables?

message: Hi - I've created a free quiz based on the content of this page at http://www.factacular.com/subjects/Television_Spin-offs
... would it be appropriate to add a link to this on the main page?  Thanks, Tom
No--TimothyJacobson (talk) 12:21, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Free quiz

message: This is more a list than a proper article - can someone flesh out the ideas behind a spin-off - a whole episode of a show (e.g. "Kellys Kids" in The Brady Bunch is devoted to introducing characters never before shown and going into detail about them in the hope of spawning a new series.
PMelvilleAustin 19:13 Mar 24, 2003 (UTC)
:There is more information on this in the article spin-off, which this list has a link to now. John Anderson 10:44, 14 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: List

message: Does anyone have a reference for this Ally show that supposedly spun off of Ally McBeal?  I think Ally was just shorthand...?  —User:Mulad (talk) 16:00, May 4, 2005 (UTC)
* It was a short-lived half-hour "remix" of the hour shows that contained some new footage. tregoweth 21:33, July 22, 2005 (UTC)
* See http://members.shaw.ca/almost99/allymcbealefiles208.html - it is also mentioned in one of the epuisode guide books--TimothyJacobson (talk) 12:21, 16 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ally? 

message: I find it a little confussing that the list merges series from different countries. Would it be an overkill to separate the list by country (in the same article, not to start a new article)? -- Andromeda 01:24, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  By country 

message: According to imdb.com, there is no show by the name of "Norm".  The closest thing I can think of is "The Norm MacDonald Show", which is sometimes known as "Norm", but which is definitely NOT a spin-off of "Cheers".  Is anybody else familiar with a spin-off from "Cheers" featuring the character of Norm Peterson?
*I removed it --Caldorwards4 04:26, 30 January 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Norm? 

message: How is Raw Toonage a spin off of The Little Mermaid? --Caldorwards4 23:33, 25 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: If it is a new show created around that character (Joey or Boston Legal) it's a spin-off.  If it's a character joining a pre-existing show, it's just a related show (Spike moving to Angel (Although Angel is a spin-off because of Angel.) Duggy 1138 (talk) 14:13, 1 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Raw Toonage 

message: It has nothing to do with All That, except for maybe the theme. 67.188.172.165 00:12, 9 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Kablam is not a spinoff of All That

message: Didn't Happy Days lead to Laverne and Shirly and Mork and Mendy?
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and jonnie loves chachieJCOLE131 (talk) 06:13, 13 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Happy Days 

message: How is Around the Horn a spin-off of PTI?  I was under the impression that the show was created to have a block of shows related to sports debating.  And, Tony Reali joined the show long after it had already started.  --myselfalso 06:41, 16 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: PTI

message: Why is Late Night with David Letterman listed as a spinoff of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson? --Metropolitan90 22:32, 4 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tonight Show / David Letterman 

message: The new series of Doctor Who has non-fiction spin-offs Totally Doctor Who (a chlidren's magazine format show) and Doctor Who Confidential (a making-of documentary series shown after each episode). Likewise, Torchwood has the Torchwood Declassified documentary series. Should they be included? --Mister Six 18:10, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Fiction to non-fiction spin-offs 

message: Like the introduction says, remakes aren't spinoffs, so I'd argue that there's no justification for listing the million national Pop Idol versions as spinoffs. Thoughts? --Arteitle 02:24, 6 August 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree. They are just different versions of the same show. Entertainment shows like that hardly ever have true spin-offs. John Andersson  16:44, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Pop Idol'' remakes aren't spinoffs 

message: This list is getting huge. What do you say about splitting it up under different headlines (still the same article). I was considering something like this:
*Fiction
**Comedy shows
**Drama shows
**Scinece fiction shows
**Children's shows
*Facts
**Entertainment
***Game shows
**News shows
What more genres should be listed as headlines? John Andersson  16:47, 9 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Won't work.  Doctor Who (SF) has making of (factual) spin-offs and has a Children's show spin-off.  MTM was a comedy and spun-off a drama.  How do you decide if a show is a children's show or a comedy/drama/SF show.  How about comedic SF?  SF or comedy?  Editors would be making choices, and thus breaching OR. Duggy 1138 (talk) 03:01, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Splitting up a long list 

message: Where have Jerry Bruckheimer, or any of the cast confirmed this?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.181.18.138 (talk) 04:41, 2 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Could find no reference to this.  I have removed it; please add again if a refernce can be found or it is actually showing somewhere.  See criteria in the beginning of the article Bigar (talk) 19:33, 8 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: CSI: Windy City

message: The criteria section has to go... or rather be reworked into something else.  It's talking to editors and not the readers of the encyclopedia. Duggy 1138 (talk) 03:59, 8 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Criteria section. 

message: I have a problem with the current format.  There are two main problems, as I see it.
* The tree from the original series idea is OK, but it means that if the reader/editor is looking for a spin-off series they'll need to know what it spun-off from.  This also means that doubles of some entries were made.
* Also I think a differentiation needs to be made between follow-on series (same series renamed, revamped, etc), character spin-offs (where elements are taken and moved to a new show -> usually a character).
Duggy 1138 (talk) 06:17, 15 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Format. 

message: Is this really a spin off of Family Guy?
None of the characters from American Dad! ever appeared on Family Guy before it's creation.
It's like saying Futurama is a spin off of Simpsons because it was made by Matt Groening.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.17.161.143 (talk) 16:13, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  American Dad!? 

message: Ka-Pow is a spin off of Happy Tree Friends, so should be added to this list.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.148.107.184 (talk) 16:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Happy Tree Friends 

message: One was a spin off of the other although I am not sure which one came first.  I would add it to the list but do not know how to.JCOLE131 (talk) 01:14, 19 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: When the Hillbillies eventually visited Petticoat Junction, I think it was briefly explained that Kate Bradley was a distant relative of Cousin Pearl's (which I think the audience is supposed to assume is the reason why they look so much alike), but after that the shows never spend any time reminding us that they're all related.  Nomwiki1 (talk) 00:43, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Green Acres/Petticoat junction 

message: Where is NCIS: Los Angeles; what about the yet-to-be-aired Law & Order: Los Angeles?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.156.158.104 (talk) 04:49, 8 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  NCIS 

message: Shows like "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" are not spin-offs of the "Archie Show."  They are shows based on characters from the same comic books.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.102.170.118 (talk) 18:51, 15 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Archie character shows 

message: I don't feel that the Rachael Ray show should be listed as a spin-off of the Oprah Winfrey show.  Dr. Phil, of course, received his own show as a result of appearances on the Oprah Winfrey show.  Rachael Ray had already established her notoriety on the Food Network and was then hired by Harpo productions for a new show.
Just because a real-life person appears on a show, surely that doesn't mean that if they get their own show, because of their particular real world job/expertise, it is a spin-off? It would have to have the same title and design as a segment of the original show to qualify as a spin-off, whereas fictional characters are clearly a tansplant to a new show and by definition have spun off.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.76.60.200 (talk) 11:26, 15 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oprah Winfrey spinoffs 

message: There was two episode of Tiny Toons which explored a family of Black and White characters that had been shelved as well as an episode that featured a family of 'over the top characters'. They are believed to be the inspiration/back door spin off tests for the Animaniacs.
Would this qualify moving them appropriately in the list? References include information on the TT Episode, "Elmyra's Family" as well as the TT Episode, "Two-Tone Town" Looking for comments because while the characters aren't delivered from one show to the next it is obviously a (some) developed character(s) being started on one show and then gaining its(their) own. Lordandrei (talk) 14:05, 29 November 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Animaniacs move under Tiny Toons 

message: Where do I start?
# This list is almost completely devoid of references. Is there anything in here that isn't original research?
# At best, this appears to be a list of very-loosely-related TV shows. Seriously, Futurama as a spin-off of The Simpsons? Why are there two revivals of The Twilight Zone listed? Are we seriously supposed to believe that all of the international X Factor shows are "spin-offs"?
# What's with the asterisks scattered all over the place? There's no explanation of what they're supposed to represent, and I can't see an obvious pattern.
At this point, it would probably be easiest to just wipe the slate clean and start a new list with the necessary references to support each entry. That would help prevent all the nonsense that has crept in over time. --Lest69 (talk) 06:28, 6 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  What a mess! 

message: Picking up from the topic above this one, this list is a mess (and definitely looks like a lot of WP:OR to me...).
Issue #1 is that the article's lede goes out of its way to note that a "revivals" and a "spinoff" are not the same thing, and then the list goes on to include revivals! (e.g. "92010", "Burke Law" (1994), etc.). Basically, any show that is listed at Revival (television) should not be listed here! 
At some point this summer, I'll likely be going through this list to try to narrow the scope of the listing, and will probably attempt to source at least some of the entries... --IJBall (contribs • talk) 17:26, 16 June 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  The [[WP:SCOPE|scope]] of this list needs to be narrowed 

message: Some of the spinoffs in the table are marked with a bullet, but I can't find anything in the article indicating what this is supposed to signify. Unless I get an explanation, I will remove them. Andylatto (talk) 18:58, 11 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  What are the bullets? 

message: Doctor Who 2009- is not a spinoff of Doctor Who 1964-1989, and not a reboot either, really, but a revival.
iCarly is in no way a spinoff of Drake And Josh. Yes, there's an actress in common, but no, she isn't playing the same character.
Nor is Zoey 101 a spinoff of All That!. Yes, again, there's an actress in common, and probably some others. But the character never appeared on All That!. That's like saying Ghostbusters is a spin off of Saturday Night Live, which it's not. (Blues Brothers is.)
Freakazoid is another case. It's not a spinoff of Animaniacs, because none of its characters appeared on that show. Yes, it has the same producer and same studio and maybe a few of the same actors, but it has no 'contextual' connection to Animaniacs. (Meanwhile, Pinky and the Brain is, because they did).
That's just a few that stand out from the sections A-C.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.187.160.52 (talk) 00:38, 21 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Quite a lot of entries are not spinoffs, but either reboots, or just shows with the same actors. 

message: Lassie" spun off from "Jeff's Collie" 1958 and "The Adventures of Champion" from "The Gene Autry Show" in 55 Cal Fallon (talk) 19:37, 4 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Other spinoffs. 

message: Is The Tycoon actually a spinoff of the show The Real McCoys? Nomwiki1 (talk) 00:32, 7 August 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Real McCoys / The Tycoon 

message: I just added the latest star trek show to the list, and it was removed. Can the editor who removed it please explain why? Thanks Deathlibrarian (talk) 10:57, 6 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  [Star Fleet Academy (TV Series)|''Star Fleet Academy'']]

message: Isn't Teen Titans Go! a reboot of Teen Titans, not a spin-off? It contains the same cast and setting as well as not following the continuity of the original. AniKitt (talk) 09:03, 21 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Teen Titans Go!