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The TV show spin-off, long a staple of padded-out network programing schedules, is rarely a successful enterprise–the Family Guy semi-spin-offs American Dad and The Cleveland Show can attest to this fact. However, something rather magical happens when some small part of an original entity detaches itself, like a muffin top from a muffin, and ends [...]

It’s true, we’re rather skeptical about knee-jerk revisions, sequels, prequels, reunion tours, side-projects, spin-offs, franchises and disastrous re-vamps, but the film world is where we’ve found the greatest number of exceptions to this informal rule. Arguing that newer and bigger can be better, Unreality’s David Madison offers proof with a listicle of equal or superior [...]