Crossword clues for spin-off
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 offshoot. 2 An incidental benefit or unexpected pay-off. 3 by-product. 4 A fictional work where the protagonist was introduced in a preceding work or at least shares the same equivalent setting, often in a different aspect. 5 The formation of a subsidiary company that continues the operations of part of the parent company; the company so formed.
WordNet
n. a product made during the manufacture of something else [syn: by-product, byproduct]
Wikipedia
Spin-off, spin off, or spinoff may refer to:
Businesses and products:
- Corporate spin-off, a type of corporate transaction forming a new company or entity
- Government spin-off, civilian goods which are the result of military or governmental research
- NASA spin-off, a spin-off of technology that has been commercialized through NASA funding, research, licensing, facilities, or assistance
- Research spin-off or University spin-off, a company founded on the findings of a member or by members of a research group at a university
- Spin-off (media), a new media product derived from an existing product or franchise, such as by focusing on an established character or setting
- Spin-off product, a new product which uses the brand name of another product which already has a well-developed image
Other uses:
- Spin-Off (game show), a 1975 American game show
- Spin Off (Canadian game show), a 2013 Canadian game show
- Segue, a topic spun off from a previous topic
Spin-Off is an American game show created and produced by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir for CBS in 1975 that was based on the dice game Yahtzee. The series was hosted by Jim Lange and announced by Johnny Jacobs. The show replaced The Joker's Wild on CBS' daytime schedule and debuted on June 16, 1975, but was cancelled on September 5, 1975. Spin-Off originated in Stages 31, 33 and 41 at CBS Television City in Hollywood, California.
In media, a spin-off (or spinoff) is a radio program, television program, video game, film, or any narrative work, derived from one or more already existing works, that focuses, in particular, in more detail on one aspect of that original work (e.g. a particular topic, character, or an event)
A spin-off may be called a sidequel when it exists in the same chronological frame of time as its predecessor work. 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 old time radio comedy show Fibber McGee and Molly became the star of his own program The Great Gildersleeve (1941–1957).
In genre fiction, the term parallels the usage in television; it is usually meant to indicate a substantial change in narrative viewpoint and activity from that (previous) storyline based on the activities of the series' principal protagonist(s) and so is a shift to that action and overall narrative thread of some other protagonist(s), which now becomes the central or main thread (storyline) of the new sub-series. The new protagonist generally appears first as a minor or supporting character in the main story line 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 sub-series. Spin offs sometimes generate their own spin-offs, leaving the new show in its own series only vaguely connected to the original series.
Usage examples of "spin-off".
Spin-Offs: An Amalgamated Youth, a Trilobal Psychologist, a Mad Cartoonist.
Fandom itself, with its spin-off cults and marketing mini-empires, with its Trekkies and Pern freaks, with its Scientologists and fanzine fans, with its Dungeons and its Dragons and its Prune World Messiahs, have long since become expressions of the collective schlockgeist of SF rather than anything of our willing literary creation.
However, we desperately need donations to do copyright research, cataloging, to hire librarians and Library and Information Science professors, to support the Project Gutenberg spin-offs in other languages and countries, not to mention mundane things such as phone and utility bills, computers, drives, backups, etc.
In the beginning Archduchy scientists made excuses for their cooperation with the military, extolling the benefits of spin-offs to the civilian sector and emphasizing that the technologies they were developing were morally neutral and could be used for peaceful purposes as well as for war.
In Keith's version of it, in Keith's spin-off of it, the star-crossed lover looks like an old chancer whose steed has fallen ten yards from the post.
He sips his Berlinerweisse slowly as she launches into a long, stilted explanation of how Arianespace is a diversified dot-com with orbital aspirations, a full range of merchandising spin-offs, Bond movie sets, and a promising hotel chain in LEO.
This leads to all sorts of spin-off ideas: false testimony by suborned sewing machines who accuse innocent men unfairly.
At the height of the Star Wars phenomenon, spin-off merchandising had accounted for a quarter of the toy industry’.
We've had trading cards, resin statues, action figures, stuffed toys, jewelry, watches, an in-depth guide to the series (The Sandman Companion by Hy Bender), a prose sequel of sorts (The Dream Hunters, Gaiman's collaboration with Japanese artist Yoshitaka Amano), an ongoing spin-off comic (The Dreaming), an anthology of Sandman stories by other authors, co-edited by Gaiman (The Sandman: Book of Dreams), and even a collection of the covers of the complete run of the original series by Dave McKean (Dust Covers).
The X-ray telescope we just orbited was a direct spin-off of H-Bomb research.