All in the Family --> Maude --> Good Times
Love, American Style --> Happy Days --> Laverne & Shirley / Mork & Mindy
Jag --> NCIS --> 50 more NCIS spinoffs
Star Trek --> Star Trek: Voyager --> Star Trek: Prodigy (mostly a Voyager spinoff, but Trek is incestuous)
Star Trek --> Star Trek: Discovery --> Star Trek: Strange New Worlds

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 2 points 1 week ago

Big Bang Theory -> Young Sheldon -> Georgie & Mandy's First Marriage (upcoming)
Arrow -> The Flash -> Legends of Tomorrow (sort of…could be argued instead that it's a spinoff of Arrow)
Vampire Diaries -> The Originals -> Legacies

Also, while we're on Trek

TOS -> TNG -> DS9. Arguably (because of the series finale) also Enterprise. Also arguably (because of the first episode) DS9 -> Voyager, which makes Prodigy into a fourth.

[–] Cort@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Idk if I'd call it a spin off, since there isn't another movie or tv show it was spun off from. More like a remake or reimagining

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The way streaming services work are too keep popular series for two or three seasons and get rid of them.

They don't want long running popular series because it builds a strong fan base that shrinks over time and new viewers are less likely to follow the series from the beginning.

They know that the highest popularity any show will have is in the first or second season and maybe the third. So it's best to get rid of it early and start building something new to restart the next big hit show money train.

The whole thing is built, like everything else in the world today .... to make money, lots and lots of money.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You know what, though? Fine. A good story can be made that fits a format, and many great novels, especially in the 19th century, were written explicitly for serialization in magazines because that’s where a lot of the money was. Similarly, streamers need to decide in advance whether a given show will drop weekly or all at once. Either can work, but it depends on the show.

No matter what, though, don’t pull the rug out from under us by cancelling on unsatisfying cliffhangers. I’m blaming well intentioned creatives here as well who want to encourage an order for another season. Open-ended is not the same as unresolved.

I’d also like to humbly request that unless they come up with feature film level production values, the seasons should not have feature film level delays. With a few exceptions, I just stop caring after about a year.

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago

And that's the other end of the spectrum to modern streaming services.

Taking a concept, idea or story and stretching it across as many episodes as possible for greatest value.

I'm getting sick and tired of watching a murder mystery documentary style show that could easily be summed up in one one-hour long program .... but streaming companies are getting into the habit of turning these one hour long shows and turning them into three or four hour long episodes.

I just watched Netflix's 'Amy Bradley Is Missing' - a three part docu-series that was interesting but at the end of it I felt like I wasted too much time watching it. All of it could have easily been summed up in a one hour long show.

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

New slogan from Netflix. “It’s spinoffs all the way down.”

[–] the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Is the spin off going to be something that doesn't suck?

Oh who am I kidding? if it's on netflix it is either trash or cancelled.