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.
Copying the formula and a spin-off are not the same thing, parks and rec isn't a spin-off
IIRC it was originally planned as a spinoff and Rashida Jones’s character had originally been considered to be Karen Filippelli, moved to Indiana. Of course I think it’s much better that they didn’t go with that idea and gave her a new character.
Parks and Rec had the same production team as The Office and the concept came from NBC asking them to produce an Office spinoff.
You’re right, it’s not a true spinoff. However it was the first shot at an Office spinoff.
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.
House of the dragon
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.
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.
