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Spinoff (media)

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in which a character from one show makes an appearance on another. Sometimes crossovers are created in an attempt to provide closure to fans of another failed series. Sometimes show producers will re-introduce a character from an older series into a later one as a way of providing a connectivity of
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based on the activities of the series' principal protagonist, and so is a shift to that action and overall narrative thread of some other protagonist, which now becomes the central or main thread (storyline) of the new subseries. The new
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Gildersleeve has taken leave of his long-time fencing partner Fibber McGee, and will be starred in his own show, "The Great Gildersleeve," beginning Aug. 31 at 6:30, P. M. on WEAF's hook-up. Harold Peary created the
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A spin-off (also spelt spinoff) is derived from already existing works that focus on more details and different aspects from the original work (e.g. particular topics, characters or events), and includes books,
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in the main storyline within a given milieu and it is very common for the previous protagonist to have a supporting or cameo role, at the least as a historical mention, in the new subseries.
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One of the earliest spin-offs of the modern media era, if not the first, happened in 1941 when the supporting character Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve from the
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Spin-offs sometimes generate their own spin-offs, leaving the new show in its own series only vaguely connected to the original series - for example, the
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have both spun multiple shows, including multiple spin-offs from series and spin-offs from spin-offs.
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work derived from an already existing work that focuses on different aspects from the original work.
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also refers to such contemporaneous spin-offs and is frequently translated as "side story".
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Sometimes even when a show is not a spin-off of another, there will nevertheless be
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Stewart, R.W. (August 3, 1941). "One Thing and Another".
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Manga: A 'Side Story' Based on the Popular Anime Series"
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Index

Media spin-off
Reboot (fiction)
Remake
Sequel

narrative
old time radio
Fibber McGee and Molly
The Great Gildersleeve
radio programs
television programs
video games
genre fiction
storyline
protagonist
supporting character
police procedural
NCIS
JAG
CSI
portmanteau
sequel
Japanese
[ɡaideɴ]
Crossover (fiction)

King Kong vs. Godzilla
crossovers
Canon (fiction)
Digression

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