09-19-2017, 01:59 AM
(10-12-2016, 08:54 PM)Hell Rell Wrote: The most successful spinoffs I can think of are Frasier, The Jeffersons, and NCIS. Those three came from Cheers, All in the Family, and Jag. The first two were two of the most popular shows of all time and Jag was highly successful as well. I didn't even mention CSI, Law & Order, and all the shows that spawned from those successful franchises.
Grimm just doesn't have the cache. I could see this working on the CW but not NBC. Once Upon a Time premiered the same year as Grimm and had a larger audience over its run although its numbers have declined as well and probably won't see another season. It had a spinoff that didn't last past 13 episodes and it only made it that far because of the relationship between OUAT's creators and ABC. Grimm would've had to maintain its earlier numbers to encourage the network to give it a spinoff but that didn't happen. It's not a sound decision to create a spinoff when interest in the parent show has dwindled.
Couldn't G and K sell the spinoff to a different network then? Like in CW or Netflix? Isn't Grimm supposed to be quite popular internationally? so it may have lost some of its viewers but still retained enough of its core audience? And with Grimm being shown on Netflix, the interest may still be there.