House M.D. Version 2.0
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doesn't look like a medical drama. looks like a private detective mystery series.
Another show from the same creators would probably be worth checking out, but I don't see why it would be done as a spinoff of House. Why not just go ahead and create it as a separate show? Maybe because networks are re-evaluating their approach to pilot season, and they felt a backdoor-pilot approach would be a good alternative?
I don't know... has there ever been a case where a character introduced specifically with the goal of setting up a spinoff actually had a successful spinoff? Usually the spinoffs that work are less contrived, built around characters who were with the show from the beginning or otherwise organically introduced (Rhoda, Lou Grant, Gomer Pyle, Frasier), or characters who were intended only as one-shots and had to be written back in when they proved unexpectedly popular (e.g. the Bionic Woman, who died in her initial guest appearance, or Mork, who was only a dream in the original Happy Days episode). Backdoor-pilot episodes intended to spawn spinoff characters rarely work out, in my experience (see Star Trek's "Assignment: Earth", the occasional Six Million Dollar Man episodes about other OSI agents with special abilities, MacGyver's "The Coltons," etc.).
I don't know... has there ever been a case where a character introduced specifically with the goal of setting up a spinoff actually had a successful spinoff? Usually the spinoffs that work are less contrived, built around characters who were with the show from the beginning or otherwise organically introduced (Rhoda, Lou Grant, Gomer Pyle, Frasier), or characters who were intended only as one-shots and had to be written back in when they proved unexpectedly popular (e.g. the Bionic Woman, who died in her initial guest appearance, or Mork, who was only a dream in the original Happy Days episode). Backdoor-pilot episodes intended to spawn spinoff characters rarely work out, in my experience (see Star Trek's "Assignment: Earth", the occasional Six Million Dollar Man episodes about other OSI agents with special abilities, MacGyver's "The Coltons," etc.).
I'll reserve judgment until we meet this character, but like others have already said, without House, this show is nothing.
I think it'd only be interesting if it *was* Twitter who, more or less, seemed like a PD version of House. Nicotene gum instead of vicodin, abbrasive and bordeline misanthropic, likely has a DA in his pocket that lets him get away with insane things (never shown in the Twitter Arc, but likely the case considering the things he got away with) like House has Cuddy, and many other similarities.
NCIS is a spinoff of JAG. Gibbs was introduced in I think the sixth or seventh season of JAG to investigate the murder of a Lieutenant and Harm was the prime suspect. The episode served as the backdoor pilot for NCIS.
The Practice >> Boston Legal
Torchwood
can we count CSI & NCIS since there shows both had a pilot on the parents shows, before there first season?
I hear the new guy's name is going to be Gary Seven.
I don't believe Jack was specifically created so he would have his own spin-off later down the road.
I don't know about the others (although I think you're right about Mork and Mindy), but Frasier was not created for the specific purpose of doing a spin-off. He was on Cheers for nearly ten years before it ended and he got his own show.
No, you're not reading what I wrote. I don't know about Just the Ten of Us, but in all the other cases, the characters in question were not introduced with the specific goal of creating a spinoff. They were characters who were introduced simply to be guest stars, who proved popular with audiences, and then, subsequently, were spun off as a result of their popularity. Indeed, Trekker, I specifically mentioned Mork and Frasier as examples of that. These are characters where the spinoff idea came after the introduction of the character. I'm asking specifically about cases where the spinoff idea came first, where the character was created specifically with a spinoff in mind, like Gary Seven was.
NCIS is not a spinoff of CSI, it is a spinoff of JAG.
