The show has spawned three short-lived spin-off series, the ABC's Good News Weekend ( 1998 ), Ten's GNW Night Lite ( 1999 ) and Ten's skit-based Good News World ( 2011 ).

In 2011, Network Ten announced they would be resting the Good News Week panel format and introducing a skit-based spin-off titled Good News World.

* Cosplay and a skit-based Masquerade show, which in recent years has taken place inside the 1st Mariner Arena.

The format consists of talk segments intermixed with music, contests and skit-based humor.

A Sontaran named Commander Kaagh the Slayer, of the 10th Sontaran Fleet, made his appearance in the second series of the spin-off show in episodes 1 and 2, The Last Sontaran.

James also played characters named Sid in appearances outside of the Carry On films, Sid Abbot in Bless This House on television and its spin-off film, as well as Sid Jones, Sid Turner, Sid Marks, Sid Stone, and Sid Gibson in addition to four characters called just ' Sid '.

As of 2011, a new spin-off cider product has been produced, named " Stella Artois Cidre ".

A great deal of Star Trek spin-off fiction, in particular the novel The Romulan Way by Diane Duane and Peter Morwood, has stated that the leader of the Vulcan-Romulan migration was a close follower of Surak's named S ' Task.

In the animated Nickelodeon movie, TV show and TV spin-off of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, there was a character named Sheen Estevez, which is Sheen's original last name – Estévez – and working last name, Sheen.

The Ringo Starr character was originally named Barry, although in the series spin-off book " The Rutland Weekend Songbook ", this character is mistakenly identified as " Kevin "— the only appearance of this name in the entire Rutles canon.

While the sitcom managed to increase its audience every new season and spawned a spin-off named The Parkers, the network decided to cancel the show after six seasons on the air, leaving it ending with a cliffhanger for a scrapped seventh season.

Fonzie, Richie Cunningham and Ralph Malph starred in a Saturday morning cartoon spin-off, The Fonz and the Happy Days Gang, where the characters, with a female character named Cupcake and a " Fonz dog " ( an anthropomorphic dog named Mr. Cool that imitated the Fonz's thumbs-up " Aaay " catchphrase ), traveled through time.

Though still a top-10 show, Dynasty dropped from # 1 to # 7 in the ratings for its sixth season, which featured a lookalike woman named Rita who poses as Krystle ( with both roles played by Evans ), introduced Alexis ' sister Caress ( Kate O ' Mara ), and launched the spin-off The Colbys.

First introduced in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, the species became a major part of the spin-off series, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, which featured a Trill named Dax as one of its main characters.

The Eighth Doctor encountered the Zygons in the spin-off novel The Bodysnatchers by Mark Morris, which also named the now-destroyed Zygon homeworld as Zygor.

Spike's baby was named Emma, to commemorate the award, and Emma would end up being the inspiration for the spin-off series, Degrassi: The Next Generation.

The spin-off show was named " You'll have had your tea " in reference to the formulaic manner in which every Hamish and Dougal sketch began on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

After a strip named Feds ' n ' Heads ( published by Print Mint ), Gilbert created his most famous strip, The Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers in 1968, and a spin-off strip, Fat Freddy's Cat in 1969, when he also co-founded Rip Off Press.

* Life With Rippy-Not a spin-off per se, " Life With Rippy " consists of certain strips, not part of normal continuity, which supposedly depict the real life of R. K. Milholland and his muse, an anthropomorphic razor blade named " Rippy.

In the summer of 2009, Cat Fancy launched a spin-off magazine named Natural Cat, about alternative nutrition and medicine, such as organic cat foods and herbal therapy.

# 46 ( a comic book spin-off from the TV series ), it is revealed that Starfire has a younger brother named Wildfire.

Holby City began on 12 January 1999 as a spin-off from Casualty and is named after the fictional Holby City Hospital in which both series are set.

In April 2006, the BBC announced that a spin-off drama from the show, to be named HolbyBlue, was in early stages of production.

During 2001, Nintendo Power released a spin-off semi-magazine named Nintendo Power Advance, featuring the Game Boy Advance and its games.

The second spin-off was written for Richard O ' Sullivan who played Robin Tripp ( which would serve as the basis for Jack Tripper on Three's Company ) and was named Robin's Nest, also the name of his restaurant on the series.

Donkey Kong spawned the sequels Donkey Kong Jr. and Donkey Kong 3, as well as the spin-off Mario Bros. A complete re-make of the original arcade game on the Game Boy, named Donkey Kong or Donkey Kong ' 94 contained levels from both the original Donkey Kong and Donkey Kong Jr arcades.

Space Ghost Coast to Coast spawned a spin-off named Cartoon Planet, where Zorak appeared as a sidekick and foil for Space Ghost.

Good Times is a spin-off of Maude, which was itself a spin-off of All in the Family along with The Jeffersons.

She was perhaps best known for her portrayal of Florida Evans on the CBS television sitcom Maude and its spin-off series Good Times.

* Janet Carr, Australian television producer best known for creating the video game talk show Good Game and its spin-off Good Game: Spawn Point

John Amos, a veteran of the earlier Lear sitcom Good Times ( itself a spin-off of the All in the Family spin-off Maude ), starred as Ernie Cumberbatch, while Lynnie Godfrey played his wife, Rose.

* List of Good News Week spin-off series episodes

In early 1974, Silverman ordered a Maude spin-off titled Good Times ; that show's success led Silverman to schedule it against ABC's new hit, Happy Days, the following fall.

At ABC, Silverman also greenlit other popular shows such as The Bionic Woman ( a Six Million Dollar Man spin-off ), Family, Charlie's Angels, Donny & Marie, Three's Company, Eight Is Enough, The Love Boat, Soap, Fantasy Island, Good Morning America, and the award-winning mini-series, Roots.

Beaver & Krause continued releasing electronic albums, first for Mercury Records ' spin-off label, Limelight, with their album Ragnarok ( 1968 ), then three albums for Warner Bros. Records, In a Wild Sanctuary ( 1970 ), Gandharva ( 1971 ), and All Good Men ( 1972 ).

A spin-off called Good Times was made, where Rolle's character was the center of the show and the show focused on her family, which lived in a low-income housing project but yet had good times.

In the spin-off short story " Good Companions " by Peter Anghelides Tegan has suffered a nervous breakdown and convinced herself that her time with the Doctor was a delusion.

Other notable roles include the voice of Invisible Girl in the 1967 animated version of Fantastic Four, Lt. Katherine O ' Hara in the television series spin-off of Operation Petticoat and Cynthia Vaughn in 1997's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil ( her last role to date ).

* Too Good to Be True ( TV series ), a proposed but finally scrapped spin-off of Small Wonder

* Quick ( newspaper ), a defunct weekly tabloid spin-off of The Dallas Morning News in Texas

Some of the definitions originally appeared in the Not the Nine O ' Clock News spin-off book Not 1982 ( ISBN 0-571-11853-4 ), where they were headed " Today's new word from the Oxtail English Dictionary ".

The Belfast News is a weekly free-sheet spin-off from the Belfast News Letter.

Other networks joining the fray are Cable News Network ( 1990 ); Asia Television Network ( 1991 ); Hong Kong-based Star TV ( 1991 ); Jain TV, near Bombay ( 1994 ); EL TV, a spin-off of Zee TV in Bombay ( 1994 ); HTV, an affiliate of the Hindustan Times in New Delhi ( 1994 ); and Sun TV, a Tamil language service in Chennai ( 1994 ).

Bakhtiar joined CNN in 1996 and held multiple positions in her 9 years at the cable news network, including anchoring " CNN Headline News Tonight " on the spin-off network, CNN Headline News.

A spin-off series entitled The Adventures of Parsley was transmitted from 6 April 1970 in the 5-minute period between the end of children's TV and the BBC Evening News.

News first broke of a new series in late 2000, when it was reported that NBC, broadcaster of Law & Order and Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, approached Wolf Films and Studios USA about a second spin-off.