Spinoffs becoming ever more common

May 23, 2008 From NBC's "The Office" to Fox's "Family Guy" and Sci Fi Channel's "Battlestar Galactica," ratings-hungry networks increasingly are urging their best performers to produce offspring. Next season there's the still-unnamed "The Office" spinoff and Fox's "Family Guy" extension, "The Cleveland Show," as well as the "Battlestar Galactica" prequel, "Caprica," which is filming a two-hour backdoor pilot. The annals of television count more than 100 attempts to successfully spin off a show's character or concept.

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