Not going to do #13 since I started this one, but I wanted to say I’m amused by how different people interpreted my topic. I realize now that I didn’t word it clearly to get the result I was looking for, but that’s nobody’s fault but mine!
What I was looking for was not spinoffs, but shows where another network (or even the same network in some cases!) looked at a popular show and said, “Let’s do our take on that!” For example, network looks at “Diff’rent Strokes,” says, “Hey! They’re getting big ratings with short wiseacre black kid–let’s get our own short wiseacre black kid and we’ll get big ratings too!”
that was my initial interpretation - but spinoffs would not be produced if their parent shows were flops; so a spinoff, successful or not is a direct result of the parent show’s popularity.
That was my interpretation. That’s why I posted Seinfeld/Curb Your Enthusiasm. I figured the latter was just due to somebody deciding to give Larry David a sitcom of his own after the success of the former.
Things overheard on Newt Gingrich’s campaign plane
“Who could I marry that would clinch the nomination for me?”
“Okay, I know the Vice Presidency and State Department are out. How about Treasury or Defense?..No, huh. Commerce? Veteran’s Affair?..Well, maybe an ambassadorship…Yes, I’ll take something below the equator…”
