New this year is Springwatch In The Afternoon, hosted by Nick Baker, a daytime spin-off running three days a week.
The franchise era – Paranormal Activity, Insidious, The Purge, Annabelle (a Conjuring spin-off running ahead of a proper sequel) in the case of horror – seems to encourage this sort of repetition.
Then there are spin-offs run by print publications, such as "The Upshot", a new, graph-laden website from the New York Times.
Possible bidders include PepsiCo, although the company's strategy of spinning off bottling assets runs counter to a purchase of Britvic.
When the music was lively, he had the dancers running and spinning off kilter and leaping into lifts and pinwheeling their arms, and they pretty much did that to the slow music, too, but less insistently.
The Hewlett-Packard Company announced yesterday that it was spinning off DeepCanyon, a company that runs a Web site providing information to marketers.
"Either Chase learns the business, or they spin off the papers and Mockridge runs the new company".
AMP said last week that it would sell 1.5 billion Australian dollars ($951 million) worth of shares and spin off the British unit, which runs the Henderson Global Investors fund.
Armstrong had planned to spin off AT&T's cable business and run it himself.
Goldman Sachs, the giant organization that practically runs Planet Earth, wants Microsoft to spin off its Xbox division.
That could mean spinning off business.
