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A spin-off in television is a new series which contains either characters, a different character or theme elements from a previous series. They are particularly common in situation comedy. A related phenomenon, not to be confused with the spin-off, is the crossover. A revival series, a later remake of a pre-existing show, is ''not'' a spin-off (e.g. The ''Battlestar Galactica'' series of 2003 is a revival, not a spin-off of the 1978 version). An exception can be made to series such as ''The Transformers'' where the lines of continuity are blurred. If a television pilot was written but never shot, it is not considered a spin-off. When a show undergoes a name change, it is not necessarily a spin-off. Neither is a reboot series, a term recently invented for motion pictures, which can also occur in television. This is distinct from a revival in that there is little or no attempt to retain continuity with the original. A recent example is the 1987 series ''Beauty and the Beast'', rebooted as the 2012 ''Beauty & the Beast'', which keeps only the main premise of a female law enforcement official aided by a man-beast, the New York City locale, and the names of the two main characters. Some spin-offs are "engineered" to introduce a character to one show, just so that that character can anchor a new show (that episode of the original show is often known as a "backdoor pilot"). For example, the character Horatio Caine appeared on one episode of the Las Vegas-based ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' before the premiere of ''CSI: Miami''. Shows such as ''Enterprise'', ''What I Like About You'', and ''Deadline'' which have no immediate connection to previous series but are still known to exist within the same fictional sphere are also spin-offs. ==Alphabetical list by parent series== __NOTOC__ 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「List of television spin-offs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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