"The CEOs couldn't get along," says Christopher Schulz, analyst with The Spin-Off Report.
A spin-off, The Colbert Report, was announced in early May 2005.
In 2005, he left The Daily Show to host a spin-off series, The Colbert Report.
The Colbert Report, a spin-off of The Daily Show starring former correspondent Stephen Colbert premiered on October 17, 2005 and ended on December 18 , 2014
Colbert first appeared as a correspondent on Comedy Central's news parody series The Daily Show in 1997 and remained a regular contributor until 2005, when he left to host The Colbert Report, a spin-off show satirizing personality-driven political pundit programs.
In 2005, Colbert left The Daily Show to host a spin-off series entitled The Colbert Report, a parody of personality-driven political pundit programs such as Fox News's The O'Reilly Factor that center largely on the personal views of their hosts.
In 2008, Variety reported that a spin-off was in development, with Gary Ross (The Hunger Games) in talks to direct.
The band No Doubt has settled its lawsuit against the makers of the Guitar Hero video game over how the band members' likenesses were manipulated in a spin-off game's virtual world, The Associated Press reported.
Earlier this year it was reported that a spin-off bling ring could be in operation as the Hollywood homes of Kevin Hart, singer Chris Brown, socialite Scott Disick and model Blac Chyna were burgled.
In December last year, we reported that a spin-off startup at Keio University in Tokyo has teamed up with a total of 34 Japanese companies and municipalities to develop a new electric car.
The report cites one British-based company – a spin-off from University of Oxford research called Oxitec Ltd – as a world leader in that area of research.
