Posts with tag spinoff
Posted Jul 3rd 2008 8:19AM by Kona Gallagher
Filed under: Industry, Programming, Criminal Minds, Reality-Free
After the success of the
CSI franchise, it's only natural that CBS would look at other shows on its lineup for spinoff possibilities. Oddly enough, the lucky show isn't
World's Greatest Dog, but
Criminal Minds. According to Executive Producer Ed Bernero, talks between CBS and ABC studios, who produces
Minds, are currently underway, saying, "It's safe to say there will be something soon."
Because the
Criminal Minds spinoff is still in the discussion phase, there's no news on exactly what the new show will entail. But, since there are obviously many more specialties within the FBI besides criminal profiling, chances are the new series will focus on one of those. As is the case with most spinoffs nowadays, the new series will probably be introduced via a "backdoor pilot" in an upcoming
Criminal Minds episode.
Continue reading Could Criminal Minds be the next CSI?
Posted Jun 18th 2008 6:43PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Weeds, Reality-Free
Weeds began it's fourth season Monday night on Showtime and showrunner
Jenji Kohan told E! Online that she's thinking about doing a Weeds spin-off. The possible spin-off would focus on Conrad's story and take place in a pot club. Kohan explains that it was time to split up Nancy and Conrad but she still felt like Conrad's story was compelling: "I love those characters; I just think those relationships wore themselves out, and I wanted to be true to where the characters were. Truthfully, Heylia and Nancy had nothing more to say to each other. Conrad and Nancy weren't going to be the loves of each other's lives, so it was time to move on."
As for the style of the spin-off, Jenji Kohan has a good idea of what she wants the show to look like. "I'd shoot it sort of fake reality-show style. It could be pretty like
The Hills!," she says. While
The Hills is indeed a "pretty" show, I think comparing the
Weeds spin-off to
The Hills is a downgrade for me. I'm just going to pretend it didn't happen.
Posted Jun 11th 2008 8:05PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Reality-Free, Gossip Girl
Every year, networks talk spinoffs. They look at their most popular shows and wonder if they could find a way to bank on the success of some of them. This is why we ended up with countless versions of
CSI and
Law & Order.
The 2008-2009 TV season will see its crop of new spinoffs. The most talked about are
90210 and the
unnamed The Office spinoff.
House will also introduce a new character in the hope to
give him his own show if the audience responds well.
According to The Hollywood Reporter,
Gossip Girl wants to join in on the fun. The show creators would like to have a series around Jenny Humphrey or a new character they would introduce in the second season of the hit The CW show.
Continue reading Spinoff madness - Is Gossip Girl next?
Posted Jun 8th 2008 8:56PM by Kristin Sample
Filed under: OpEd, Celebrities, News and Gossip
Here's what's going on with MTV's resident morons this week...
Whitney Port is getting
her own show. I bet you
the nipple slip awhile ago sealed the deal. According to Us Weekly,
The Hills star will be working bicoastally for a fashion PR firm called People's Revolution. Now, she'll be involved in hijinx on both coasts. Apparently, in New York, Whitney will befriend socialite
Olivia Palermo.
Heidi and Spencer have made three million in two years of off "their work as douchebags" according to
VH1. And no, the three million is not their combined salaries from
The Hills. The couple just shamelessly sells out: club appearances, clothing lines, photo ops. I love that VH1 used the phrase "their work as douchebags." It's so true.
And here's the
sneak peek of season 4 of
The Hills coming this August. Lauren will find a new guy. Audrina and Lo will fight over LC's affections. And Stephanie will make the awful decision to invite LC and Heidi and Spencer to her birthday party.
Posted May 16th 2008 5:22PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Word on the street yesterday was that the
90210 spin-off
executive producers were thinking of actor Rob Estes to portray Harry Mills, a father who relocates his family in Beverly Hills to take care of his alcoholic mother. The show had yet to find an actor to play the pivotal role and they were now getting ready to just hand it on a silver platter to a "name" actor.
The stars quickly aligned (read here that Rob Estes became available since ABC canceled
Women's Murder Club) and
the actor will join the already beautiful 90210 cast.
Continue reading Rob Estes joins 90210 as predicted
Posted May 15th 2008 11:45AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Casting, Reality-Free
Earlier this week, The CW released
this promotional picture of the
90210 regular cast. From left to right: Dustin Milligan, AnnaLynne McCord,
Jessica Walter, Shenae Grimes,
Tristan Wilds,
Lori Loughlin, Ryan Eggold, Jessica Stroup and Michael Steger.
If you've been keeping up with
information about the spin-off, you know that there is someone missing from that picture. No, it's not
Jennie Garth or
Tori Spelling since they will be recurring/guest stars. But it's the actor who'll play the pivotal character of Harry Mills, a father who relocates his family in Beverly Hills to take care of his mother.
Continue reading The first look at the official 90210 cast and other news about the spin-off
Posted May 12th 2008 3:38PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
Not even a week after it was announced that
Jennie Garth would be part of the Beverly Hills, 90210 spin-off in a recurring capacity, comes the news that
Tori Spelling will also join the "new" 90210 series.
Nikki Finke, over at
Deadline Hollywood Daily, which was a prime spot for news about the writers strike, reports that reliable sources claim Tori Spelling will reprise her role of Donna Martin on the spin-off.
Continue reading Tori Spelling going back to Beverly Hills, 90210?
Posted May 10th 2008 5:05PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Dancing With The Stars, Casting, Reality-Free
Actress Jennie Garth, who portrayed Kelly Taylor in almost 300 episodes of the hit series
Beverly Hills, 90210, will appear on the series' spin-off set to premiere this coming fall season on The CW. The actress, who will appear in a recurring capacity on the spin-off, will reprise the same role that helped put her on the map in the 1990s.
It's not unusual to see original cast members make their way in spin-offs. And when said spin-offs have teens attending school, it's a regular occurrence to see the original cast member be part of the school's staff. Kelly Taylor is no exception here. The Hollywood Reporter confirms that Kelly Taylor will become
a guidance counselor at West Beverly Hills High. Nothing more is known at this point about the character and if other
90210 original cast members will join her on the show.
Jennie Garth was also part of the cast of
What I Like About You and of Season 5 of
Dancing with the Stars.
Continue reading Jennie Garth will be part of the 90210 spin-off
Posted May 7th 2008 2:41PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Industry, House, Reality-Free
When a series is successful, it's not surprising that there are talks of spin-offs. In the last few years, we had spin-offs for
Grey's Anatomy,
Girlfriends,
CSI, Law & Order, etc., while others are in the works for
Battlestar Galactica and
Beverly Hills, 90210.
Therefore, I don't think you'll fall off your chair if I tell you that FOX is toying with the idea of a
House spin off. But you may want to make sure you are properly seated before reading this: the spin-off would not focus on doctors but private investigators!
Continue reading A House spin-off about private investigators?
Posted Apr 29th 2008 3:27PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
The
Beverly Hills 90210 spin off was looking for an actress in her 60's who could play an actress and alcoholic. Who better for the role than
Arrested Development's Jessica Walter? After all, she is an actress and her
AD role of Lucille Bluth required that she pretends to be drinking/drunk in a lot of episodes!
TV Guide and
Entertainment Weekly confirmed earlier today that the actress was cast in the lead role of
Tabitha Mills, an actress who had her career prime in the 70s and who is now best friends with a liquor bottle. Worried about his mother's well-being, her son Harry moves his family to Beverly Hills. Continue reading Jessica Walter joins the 90210 cast
Posted Apr 28th 2008 4:41PM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
The
Berverly Hills, 90210 spin off found its mother!
TV Guide's Michael Ausiello reports that
Full House's
Lori Loughlin was cast as Celia Mills, "an ex-Olympic athlete who relocates to Beverly Hills with her husband and two children."
As we revealed about a month ago,
90210 version 2.0
will revolve around the Mills family, which relocates to Beverly Hills so the patriarch can take care of his movie star mother who just fell off the wagon. Supposedly, he'll get a job as Beverly Hills High new principal.
Continue reading Lori Loughlin joins 90210 spin off
Posted Apr 9th 2008 11:20AM by Allison Waldman
Filed under: Watercooler Talk, The Office, Casting, Reality-Free
So, while we've been speculating here on our own about
The Office spinoff, others are doing the same.
TV Guide's Michael Ausiello, one of my favorite TV chatters, was asked in
his column about said
Office spinoff and whether it may be the perfect spot for Lauren Graham. Hmm...very interesting.
Ausiello agreed with the writer, that especially in light of the
big deal Lauren inked with NBC, it makes sense. He wrote, "It would be insane not to at least consider Graham for the gig. Are you with me?"
Continue reading Lauren Graham for Office spin-off?
Posted Apr 2nd 2008 8:22PM by Jay Black
Filed under: Programming, Watercooler Talk, The Office, Reality-Free
Earlier today,
we reported on NBC's fall lineup. The most intriguing nugget: the long rumored
Office spinoff is, indeed, happening this year.
Kristin over at E! clarified things a bit (kinda) by reporting that though
The Office spinoff exists semi-officially, it still
does not exist
creatively. Apparently, they're still trying to find the right premise for such a spinoff (and if you're not scared about the show existing before the premise does, then you haven't been watching TV for very long).
That said, it was around this time four years ago that fans of the UK
Office were worrying whether or not the NBC version would go the way of
Coupling, so I think it's worth giving NBC the benefit of the doubt on this one. I'd like to open the floor to our enlightened commenters on just what the premise of an
Office spinoff might be...
Continue reading The Office spinoff (Official Speculation Discussion)
Posted Jan 4th 2008 11:23AM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, OpEd
According to the UK entertainment site Digital Spy, Ricky Gervais is talking about doing a spin-off of
Extras, which he recently concluded with a holiday special. The spin-off would focus on Shaun Williamson's character Barry (referred to most of the time as "Barry from
EastEnders") and co-creator Stephen Merchant's clueless agent Darren Lamb.
Williamson confirmed to a British radio station that he is in talks with Gervais about the spin-off. "We talked half-jokingly about a show with the pair in a camper van, solving crimes," he told the station.
Continue reading Gervais working on an Extras spinoff?
Posted May 7th 2007 10:22AM by Isabelle Carreau
Filed under: OpEd, Grey's Anatomy, Watercooler Talk
The
Grey's Anatomy boards and blogs, and even some of our articles here at TV Squad, have been experiencing a surge in negative comments and posts. Those comments are directed at solely one thing: the
potential spin-off featuring the character of Addison.
Why are fans so unhappy with the end result? Will fan comments have ABC not pick up
Private Practice?
Let's analyze a few of the negative comments left by the TV Squad visitors in our "
Grey's Anatomy vs. the spin-off -- Part 2" post.
Continue reading Why Grey's Anatomy's fans hate the spin-off
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