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When a show strive certain levels of popularity , it makes sense tocreate whirl - offs separate parallel stories , but some tailspin - offs flow flat when examine to copy the original . Not every tailspin - off can be a success . While they do what they can to bestow beloved characters into a new setting or reprize the expression that made the original special , they do n’t always manage to live up to the ballyhoo and popularity of their predecessors .
While somespin - offs wangle to outshine the original shows , likeThe FlashorStar Trek : The Next Generation , others struggle to receive their own distinct format . The thing is , even when the twisting - offs do n’t manage to perform as well as the original , it does n’t always entail they are inherently bad show , but because they will undoubtedly be compared against the original , it can contribute to a lack of winner . For shows likeHow I Met Your FatherandThat 80 ’s Show , itwasn’t enough to just take the data format and interchange the cast , the shows needed to become unparalleled .
10The Winchesters (2022 - 2023)
Supernatural (2005 - 2020)
Supernaturalwas one of the most wide hump show on The CW , and it deal to keep going for 15 yr . But when the show cease and the new spin - off serial , The Winchesters , launch , it failed to reach the same stature as its forerunner . Jenson Ackles return as the storyteller , and later in the first season , but even this could n’t lay aside the prequel show . Unfortunately , thenetworks agreed and decided to invalidate the showafter just one season .
9Joey (2004 - 2006)
Friends (1994 - 2004)
Friendsis iconic and became the go - to sitcom for a generation , but when the serial wrap in 2004 , a abruptly - be spin - offstarring Matt LeBlanc’sJoeywas brought in to fill the gap . Joey provide his friends and his living in New York behind to follow more acting opportunities in Los Angeles . He move in with one of his sisters and his nephew , and the show fork out some funny and heartwarming moment . unluckily , following the mega - hit that wasFriends , doomed the show , and it only ran for two seasons before being axed .
twirl - offs are very usual , especially when there is an existent fanbase , and many popular sitcom carry on the tarradiddle via one or more whirl - offs .
8Katy Keene (2020)
Riverdale (2017 - 2023)
A whirl - off from the incredibly pop mystery teen drama serial publication , Riverdale , Katy Keeneis a musical dramedy . The change in tone and genre is just one of the things that potentiallymade this spin - off too different to succeedinstead of too similar . The lead character , Katy Keene , played by Lucy Hale , appears briefly in the main series in a cameo crossover , but the spin - off is adjust five years after the main show , despite being released concurrently with the original . The series is unite , but more plainly through the Archie comic , which already have a very loose relationship to the series .
7The Golden Palace (1992 - 1993)
The Golden Girls (1985 - 1992)
The Golden Girlswas a classic sitcom starring Bea Arthur , Betty White , Rue McClanahan , and Estelle Getty from the 80s and 90s . Four older women last together and navigating their golden age . When the series wind up , CBS wanted to come up a path to continue the history and popularity of the original , soThe Golden Palacewas launch , starring three of the womanhood as theyembark on a raw concern venture run a hotel . It fail to becharm the magic of the original and was strike down after its first time of year .
6Joanie Loves Chachi (1982 - 1983)
Happy Days (1974 - 1984)
Joanie Loves Chachiis a notoriously spoilt spin - off of the seriesHappy Days . Theoriginal series launched several spin - offswith shows likeMork and Mindy , andLaverne and Shirleytaking off , butJoanie Loves Chachididn’t link up with audiences and was cancel shortly after it was released . The show followed two of the teenagers from the original series as they make a motion to Chicago to pursue ambition of becoming musicians and ofttimes featured musical numbers , but the serial publication failed to hold the interest of the hearing and was before long canceled .
5Baywatch Nights (1995 - 1997)
Baywatch (1989 - 2001)
Baywatchwas a highly pop serial that lean throughout all of the 90s , but there was an ill - conceived spin - off that was launched halfway through . Baywatch Nightssaw the fundamental type of the main serial , Mitch Buchannon ( David Hasselhoff)moonlight as a crime - busting detective . When the first season struggled to gain traction , the series was retooled to include science fabrication element and mysterysimilar toThe X - Files , but the series flopped and was canceled .
Some shows are so piquant with brilliant graphic symbol that they involve a whirl - off to inflate the narrative , other spin - offs are n’t quite as necessary .
4That ’80s Show (2002)
That ’70s Show (1998 - 2006)
Technically , That ' 80s Showdoesn’t call itself a whirl - off and the show has no solid link or crossovers with characters from the pilot . However , the format , style , concept , and assumption are all straightaway inspired byThat ' seventy Show . The series even carry over some of the behind - the - scenes talent fromThat ' 70 Showwith the show ’s Divine and stave . That ' seventy Showfollows a group of teenagers growing up in rural Wisconsin . That ' 80s Showis set in the following decade , with a completely new cast in San Diego , California . Theshow receive overwhelmingly negative reviewsand was canceled before airing the season 1 finale .
3The Brady Brides (1981)
The Brady Bunch (1969 - 1974)
The Brady Bunchis a heartwarming and hold out situation comedy that assure the write up of two families becoming one . The Brady Brideswas release , perhaps too long after the original series ended , and focused on two of the Brady girlsdeciding to corrupt a dwelling together with their husband . The husbands clash and the balance in the home is tenuous as neither match has specially good chemistry and the show revolves around the two girls . in the end , it was canceled after a single time of year .
2Mrs. Columbo (1979 - 1980)
Columbo (1971 - 1978)
Columbowas a long - runningcrime drama TV seriesfollowing the brilliant , but frequently disheveled police detective , Columbo . The original show oft reference Columbo ’s wife , but it was an on-going joke that she was never on - screen and small was revealed about the character reference . In 1979 , a spin - off was created that rivet on his wife , play by Kate Mulgrew , as she solved criminal offense , but the show was n’t endorsed by the sensation of the pilot . The serial received negative feedback and tried to alter its course by take the character divorcement and regress to her maiden name , but it did n’t save the show , and it ran for just 13 episodes before being canceled .
1How I Met Your Father (2022 - 2023)
How I Met Your Mother (2005 - 2014)
How I Met Your Motherwas an groundbreaking approach to the boy meets girl narrative , with Ted Mosby tell his kids a story about meeting their mother and the tale wreak out over nine seasons before Ted finally see his wife . Despite the show ’s factious ending , it was exceedingly popular throughout its intact run . How I Met Your Fatherwas evolve tobuild on the same concept and modernize it , while flipping the narrative to focus on a mother telling the taradiddle of how she found her hubby . The show failed to attract a nice audience and was canceled after just two seasons .
