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8 Intriguing TV Spinoffs That Never Happened

When television spinoffs go right, they can succeed with flying colours. Just ask Frasier or The Flash, both of which were spawned from perfectly popular series but then managed to outshine their parent shows in most viewers’ hearts (Cheers and Arrow, respectively).

6) Twin Peaks’ Audrey Horne Goes To Hollywood

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After 26 years, David Lynch’s classic surreal crime series Twin Peaks will return in 2017 with nearly all of the original cast returning to their roles. However, we could have got more Twin Peaks a lot sooner if this idea for a spinoff came to fruition.

Lynch was so fond of Sherilyn Fenn’s character Audrey Horne that he planned to build a series – or, according to other sources, a one-off movie – around her. The writer/director’s plans were summed up with the phrase ‘Audrey Goes To Hollywood’ and would have seen her, in Fenn’s words, “driving around Mulholland [Drive] in this convertible car.”

What’s interesting about this one is that, even though discussions for the spinoff fell through, Lynch fans still got to see this idea make it to the screen. He subsequently developed it into a film instead and made Mulholland Drive, released in 2001 and starring Naomi Watts in what was originally the Audrey role.