On November five, far more than two a long time following The CW purchased a prequel spinoff for The 100, information broke the task was formally useless. The proposed spinoff, glimpsed in the 100 backdoor-pilot episode 𠇊naconda,” would have rewound the motion to the time of the nuclear apocalypse that began it all.
Of study course, this isn’t the very first time a very-expected spinoff in no way bought a prospect to forge its have route. Below are 11 far more nixed offshoots, together with various that began (and finished) with backdoor pilots.
The Farm
Towards the stop of The Business office, NBC produced a spinoff all around Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) operating a mattress-and-breakfast out of his spouse and children beet farm, with Majandra Delfino and Thomas Middleditch taking part in the character’s siblings. NBC handed on the task in Oct 2013, but viewers observed what could have been in the Year nine Business office episode of the identical title.
Inexperienced Arrow and the Canaries
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This January, the CW pulled the plug on this Arrow offshoot revolving all around Mia Smoak (Katherine McNamara), Dinah Drake (Juliana Harkavy), and Laurel Lance (Katie Cassidy) in Star Town circa 2040. A backdoor pilot for the notion aired as a Year nine episode of Arrow.
Jane the Novela
Talking of axed CW spinoffs, this anthologized successor to Jane the Virgin would have experienced Jane (Gina Rodriguez) choose about as narrator, as a new solid of people delivers one particular of her tales to existence every single time. Soon after taking pictures the task down in Could 2019, The CW President Mark Pedowitz explained Jane the Novela lacked its predecessor’s quotient of “quirkiness and exciting.”
How I Achieved Your Father
7 a long time prior to Hulu gave the environmentally friendly mild to How I Achieved Your Father, CBS was prepping this in the same way-titled spinoff of How I Achieved Your Mom, with Greta Gerwig on board as author and star. Even superior, Meg Ryan would have voiced an more mature variation of Gerwig’s character as the narrator of the exhibit. But CBS halted the task in Could 2014, so this is one particular origin tale we gained’t get to see.
Legislation & Get: For the Protection
A lot like it did with the Legislation & Get: Loathe Crimes notion a couple of a long time back, NBC rescinded its straight-to-collection buy to this Legislation & Get spinoff this July. For the Protection would have shifted the notice from the D.A.’s office environment to a legal protection organization. What we didn’t know at the time, even so, was that NBC would shortly convey again the mothership again for a 21st time.
Marvel’s Most Required
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Marvel began floating the notion of a collection revolving all around S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Bobbi Morse all around June 2011, when the potential collection was referred to as Mockingbird and billed as 𠇊lias satisfies Felicity.” As soon as Adrianne Palicki began taking part in the position on Marvel’s Brokers of S.H.I.E.L.D. together with Nick Blood as fellow agent Lance Hunter, ABC expressed fascination in supplying the two people a S.H.I.E.L.D.spinoff referred to as Marvel’s Most Required. But in much less-than-tremendous information for comedian-e book supporters, ABC offed the task in Could 2016, with then-president Channing Dungey detailing that the community desired a Marvel exhibit that was 𠇊s creatively robust as it can be.”
Aged-ish
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Strike comedy Black-ish would have gotten a 3rd spinoff�oming a member of Developed-ish and Blended-ish𠅎xperienced this notion long gone ahead. Aged-ish, declared in September 2020, would have concentrated on off-and-on grandparents Ruby (Jenifer Lewis) and Earl Johnson (Laurence Fishburne), who experienced been thieving scenes considering that Black-ish’s very first time. This Could, even so, ABC president Craig Erwich explained there ended up “no existing strategies to make [Old-ish] as a pilot.”
Untitled Match of Thrones spinoff
As manufacturing arrived to a (controversial) near on the mega-strike Match of Thrones, HBO purchased a prequel spinoff chronicling “the environment’s descent from the golden Age of Heroes into its darkest hour.” Codenamed Bloodmoon, the task experienced sufficient star energy, with Naomi Watts primary the solid and George R. R. Martin himself serving as co-creator. In Oct 2019, even so, the high quality cabler slayed that prequel, with rumors of manufacturing challenges and an unsatisfactory pilot episode. But it instantly gave the environmentally friendly mild to a different prequel, Dwelling of the Dragon.
Untitled Gossip Female spinoff
If you observed the Gossip Female Year two episode “Valley Women,” you’ve observed the backdoor pilot for a spinoff that in no way transpired: one particular that starred Brittany Snow as a youthful Lily Rhodes (prior to she grew to become Lily van der Woodsen) as she will get kicked out of her personal university and moves in with sister Carol, performed by Krysten Ritter, in 1980s San Fernando Valley. The CW handed on the task all around Could 2009.
Wayward Sisters
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In Could 2018, The CW place the kibosh on Wayward Sisters𠅊 Supernatural spinoff about Sheriff Jody Mills (Kim Rhodes) overseeing a team of orphaned youthful girls who band with each other to come to be a monster-combating foster spouse and children—with Pedowitz expressing the community felt it “had a superior shot with [The Originals spinoff] Legacies.” But Supernatural supporters at the very least bought a backdoor pilot with the Year 13 episode “Wayward Sisters.”
Windward Circle
Gilmore Women just about bought a spinoff, with The WB buying a pilot centering on Jess Mariano (Milo Ventimiglia), really like fascination of Rory Gilmore (Alexis Bledel), as he moves throughout the place to Venice Seaside to reconnect with his father Jimmy (Rob Estes). The spinoff, Windward Circle, in no way produced it to tv—reportedly due to the fact of budgetary restrictions𠅋ut viewers observed scenes from the California-established tale in the Gilmore Women Year three episode “Here Arrives the Son.”