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Frances Neagley’s eight-episode spinoff from Reacher can’t stand on its own: despite a capable performance from Maria Sten and occasional cult-flavored moments, it lumbers with thin supporting characters, a banal setting, and familiar tropes, failing to match the momentum and tonal sharpness of the flagship series. It doesn’t justify existing as a Reacher continuation; all eight episodes premiere on Amazon Prime Video on Sept. 16.
Deadline reports Noah Reid will guest star as Dr. Hudson Henshaw in the second season of CBS’s Sheriff Country and is being lined up to headline a potential Sheriff Country medical spinoff (informally dubbed Edge Med) should CBS greenlight the project; the untitled spinoff would follow a medical team in Edgewater, California with executive producers Matt Lopez, Thieriot, Rater, Phelan and Jerry Bruckheimer.
Charlie Hunnam says the upcoming Sons of Anarchy spinoff is a meta-thriller in which the original cast play themselves, reuniting at a fan convention to face a real-world threat; it’s not Season 8, Kurt Sutter isn’t involved but Katey Sagal is on board, and FX/20th Television are producing for FX and Hulu.
Netflix has ordered Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery, a Manifest universe spinoff following a new group of characters; created by Manifest creator Jeff Rake with writers Laura Putney and Margaret Easley, and executive produced with Robert Zemeckis and Jack Rapke for Compari/Valhalla, with Warner Bros. Television as the studio. Set in the same world as Manifest, Arrivals centers on a Denver plane crash where the arrivals, aided by a social worker and a Homeland Security agent, work to uncover a larger mystery and avert a humanity-ending catastrophe while discovering their connections to the original story.
Netflix has greenlit Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery, a Manifest spinoff led by original creator Jeff Rake with co-creators Margaret Easley and Laura Putney, produced by Warner Bros. TV. The series will expand the Manifest universe with a new mystery and the same creative team, aiming to satisfy fans while attracting new viewers; Netflix notes the original series has accumulated over 130 million views across its four seasons.
Netflix has ordered Arrivals: A New Manifest Mystery, a Manifest-universe spinoff from creator Jeff Rake and co-showrunners Margaret Easley and Laura Putney, with Warner Bros. TV as the studio. The series introduces a new cast and follows a mysterious Denver plane crash whose survivors recall nothing of who they are, as a young social worker and a novice Homeland Security agent partner to stop a humanity-ending catastrophe while remaining accessible to new viewers and expanding the Manifest universe.
Taylor Sheridan says the long-rumored '6666' spinoff will not happen and he would never fictionalize the real Four Sixes ranch, despite past reports; he even assembled what would have been a montage of Jimmy at the 6666 but argues a series would require inventing drama around real people, which he refuses to do, while continuing other projects in his Sheridan TV universe.
Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan says there will never be a 6666 spinoff, explaining he would not fictionalize the real Texas ranch and that the project never moved forward; he emphasizes protecting the 6666 Ranch and its workers, while Yellowstone’s universe continues with other installments like 1883 and 1923.
HBO Max has renewed the The Big Bang Theory spin-off Stuart Fails To Save The Universe for a second season four episodes into its first run. The single-camera sci‑fi comedy follows Stuart Bloom and friends as they navigate multiverse chaos after a device mishap, with Kevin Sussman, Lauren Lapkus, Brian Posehn and John Ross Bowie leading the cast. The renewal reinforces HBO Max’s strong comedy launch, and new episodes continue to drop weekly on Thursdays as the series expands its universe in season two.
A Lincoln Lawyer spinoff starring Cobie Smulders as Emi Finch is in early development at Netflix. The project would have Smulders reprise her role as Mickey Haller’s half-sister Emi; the character debuted in Season 4 and is set to return in Season 5. The series is being written by Ted Humphrey, Dailyn Rodriguez and Matthew J. Lieberman and produced by A+E Studios; Netflix declined to comment.
Paramount+ has unveiled The Varnell Hill Show, an eight-episode Martin spinoff starring Tommy Davidson as Varnell Hill. Set behind the scenes of a fictional late-night talk show, the series debuts Sept. 1 with two episodes and runs one new episode every Tuesday through Oct. 13. The ensemble includes Kym Whitley, Wendy Raquel Robinson, Nick Cafero, Emmanuel Hudson and Chris Williams, with guests such as Ms. Pat, Deon Cole, Damon Wayans, Mike Epps and Omarion; Bentley Kyle Evans serves as director and showrunner among the executive producers.
Double Fine, the Psychonauts 2 developer, is becoming an independent studio after being spun off from Xbox, with 23 employees laid off during the transition; Xbox confirms Double Fine will retain its IP and catalog as it enters its next chapter.
Stuart Bloom leads HBO Max’s 10-episode offbeat spinoff, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe, a sci‑fi adventure from The Big Bang Theory crafted by Chuck Lorre with Bill Prady and Zak Penn after initial resistance; the show sends Stuart and his friends across a multiverse filled with alternate versions of their Pasadena world, featuring cameos from familiar Big Bang alums and new twists that diverge radically from the original, all shot in Los Angeles with heavy visual effects to stay under budget. It premieres July 23 on HBO Max.
The M3GAN spinoff Soulm8te moves forward as a straight‑to‑digital release after being pulled from Universal’s theatrical calendar. The erotic thriller, directed by Kate Dolan from a story by James Wan, Ingrid Bisu and Jordan Wan, will hit digital rental platforms on August 1 via Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. It follows a grieving engineer testing a tech giant’s new AI android whose attempt to program a true soulmate leads to a brutal spree. The cast includes Lily Sullivan, David Rysdahl, Claudia Doumit and Arty Froushan, with Wan and Blumhouse producing.
Comcast announced spin-offs of NBCUniversal and Sky while retaining the cable business, a move analysts say could unlock a wave of mergers and acquisitions as the separated companies become easier to buy, sell, or combine; bankers preview potential moves like Comcast expanding via Charter and possibly selling NBCU to Netflix to bolster a stronger distribution/content platform in a shifting media landscape.