Peacock is turning The Office into a franchise with a new spinoff series
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152046/peacock-office-spinoff-greg-daniels-michael-koman
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/8/24152046/peacock-office-spinoff-greg-daniels-michael-koman
29 Comments
shinratdr@lemmy.ca · 17 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
The Boys had Gen V which was successful. But I agree with you that there are very few good spinoffs.
felbane@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
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 advertisingbespoke entertainment recommendationsteft@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 · 12 pts · 2y
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.
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 11 pts · 2y
Copying the formula and a spin-off are not the same thing, parks and rec isn't a spin-off
jqubed@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
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.
shinratdr@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 2y
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.
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
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)
zipzoopaboop@lemmynsfw.com · 9 pts · 2y
House of the dragon
misk@sopuli.xyz · 6 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
The watchmen, kinda?
Also Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a spin off of Discovery
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Isn't all of Star Trek endless spinoffs?
elbarto777@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Mastengwe@lemm.ee · 5 pts · 2y
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.
Kayday@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I haven't seen it, but I hear Young Sheldon did okay.
shinratdr@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
House of the dragon maybe?
DODOKING38@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Was Fraser in the last 20 years?
Slimthickens@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
The last episode of Frasier aired 20 years ago as of next Monday.
jve@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
The last episode of Frasier was in December 2023
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frasier_(2023_TV_series)
EvilLootbox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
I was going to say Daria, but checked and that ended in 2002.
shinratdr@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 2y
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 pts · 2y
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.
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
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