The first season began airing on the network in September, with Season 2 premiering on Spectrum Originals earlier that month. Gabrielle Union is Sydney Burnett, the sister of Lawrence’s character, and Jessica Alba is her partner Nancy McKenna (Syd and Nancy - see what they did there?).L.A.'s Finest cancellation news comes just five months after Fox announced it had acquired the broadcast rights to both seasons of the show, as it had to rework its fall schedule due to a number of gaps caused by the COVID-19 pandemic production shutdown.
The budget might be considerably smaller, the violence a little less graphic, but the formula is exactly the same. LA’s Finest is basically Bad Boys with women.
#Bad boys spin off movie
Yup, someone thought what we needed was a television spin-off from Michael Bay’s big, brainless, violent, noisy and exhausting buddy movies starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence (the owner of the most richly undeserved movie career in Hollywood) as Miami cops.
LA’s Finest, on the other hand, is an offshoot of the Bad Boys film franchise. And yet, no matter how misjudged these were, at least they were backed up by some kind of logic, in that they all derived from successful, acclaimed, well-loved originals.
#Bad boys spin off tv
Repairing broken TVs is one thing repairing broken TV sitcom ideas is another. The pitch: Carla’s good-for-nothing ex-husband Nick and his blonde bimbo wife Loretta migrate to Las Vegas, where Nick opens a TV repair shop. I’ll see those two and raise you The Tortellis, AKA “The Cheers spin-off that wasn’t Frasier”.
#Bad boys spin off series
If AfterMASH proved one thing, it’s that being one of the stars of the most popular TV series in the world is no guarantee of an afterlife (see also Joey). How about AfterMASH? The pitch: Colonel Potter, Father Mulcahy and Klinger find themselves working together again in a Missouri hospital - thus completely reversing some poignant moments in the MASH finale (Potter saying he was going home to be a semi-retired country GP, Mulcahy losing his hearing and Klinger, who’d spent the entire Korean war acting crazy so he’d be sent home to America, ironically staying in Korea after he’d married a Korean woman). How about Beverly Hills Buntz? The pitch: seedy, sleazy comic relief cop Norman Buntz from Hill Street Blues sets up shop as a smalltime private investigator in La-La Land, where his loud shirts blend in perfectly with the scenery. Still, at least Joey registered something on viewers’ radar, even if it was only the briefest and tiniest of blips, and for all the wrong reasons.īut what about all the others that came and went without anyone except TV critics and the poor unfortunates who worked on the shows even being aware of their existence? Remember Friends off-cut Joey? How could anyone possibly forget the sitcom that packed the most loveable but least developed member of the Central Perk crowd off to LA in search of his breakthrough role and saddled him with a stereotypically mouthy Italian-American sister, a nephew and a horny agent?Įasily, as it turned out, and that’s probably the way Matt LeBlanc prefers it.
Some spin-offs would have been best left unspun.
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