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   From: MARC@imarcREMOVE.co.uk   
      
   Alan McHurshman wrote:   
   > Shows   
   > inspired by the X-Files can indeed be called spinoffs.   
      
   Certainly over here in the UK, a spin off is something that has the same   
   characters or exists in the same world as the original show.   
      
   The Lone Gunman is an X-Files spinoff.   
      
   Torchwood is  Dr Who spinoff.   
      
   Angel is Buffy spinoff. (I think - never watched it)   
      
   Millennium is NOT an X-Files spinoff because they were two different   
   worlds (ok, until the crossover episode - but the show was not conceived   
   from the world of X-Files)   
      
   But maybe you Americans have invented a new meaning for our word :p   
      
   Marc   
      
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