Doctor Who spin-off The Sarah Jane Adventures, written by Phil Ford, took the prize for best children's TV script for its episode The Curse of Clyde Langer.
In a move first reported by The New York Times, Viacom has decided to pull The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (among the top three most popular series on Hulu this week), spin-off The Colbert Report and other Comedy Central series from the video-sharing site next week.
Comverse CEO Charles Burdick said in a statement that the deal, along with the spin-off of the new company Comverse Inc.
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At the time it was announced, I argued that the spin-off of the PC business looked more like a rush to have a credible story for a quarterly investor call than a well thought out strategy.
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In his note, Bachman also considers the potential spin-off of the PC division, and finds such a move unlikely in the near- or medium-term.
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The film, starring Bafta nominee Peter Capaldi as the venomous political spin-doctor Malcolm Tucker, is a spin-off from the BBC TV series The Thick of It.
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Following her Kraft homecoming--Rosenfeld had worked for 20 years at Kraft and General Foods before joining PepsiCo--the new chief now has to grapple with high commodity prices, an upcoming spin-off of the company from its 87% owner, Altria (nyse: MO - news - people ), and of course, fierce global competition.
The firm is a spin-off of the old Polyconomics indie research firm run by gold bug and famous supply side economist Jude Wanniski.
So why the sudden interest in a spin-off of the seminal '90s soap?
Following her Kraft homecoming--Rosenfeld had worked for 20 years at Kraft and General Foods before joining PepsiCo--the new chief now has to grapple with high commodity prices, an upcoming spin-off of the company from its 87% owner, Altria, and of course, fierce global competition.
The kit and software are a spin-off of the Netherlands-based firm's motion capture technology, originally developed for movies including The Avengers and Ted.
The exploration and production company is an old spin-off of the mining firm.
Equally unsuccessful was The Golden Palace, an ill-considered spin-off from The Golden Girls, the popular sitcom about four women growing old gracelessly.
The company expects to create these companies through a tax-free spin-off of the North American grocery business to Kraft Foods shareholders.
The technology is commercialized by Transform Solar, a Boise, Idaho-based spin-off of the semiconductor giant Micron Technology.
But the spin-off came while the main show was still high in the ratings.
New HP CEO, Meg Whitman, faced with the harsh realities of executing on the spin-off, crunched the numbers and reversed the move.
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It is also proving a major spin-off for the hotel industry, especially in the Republic's border counties.
Elliott has said it wants Hess to boost shareholder value through various means, including a potential spin-off of the oil company's holdings in North Dakota's Bakken shale-oil field.
Among the flops under Zucker's watch: the critically scorned Friends spin-off Joey and the costly animated misfire Father of the Pride.
The spin-off should also ease the completion of the Bankers Trust deal and help Deutsche Bank to list its shares in New York.
The University of Zaragoza has set up a spin-off to commercialise the research and Dr Minguez expects a fully fledged device by 2014.
Openreach is the BT spin-off responsible for maintaining the telco's network.
From 20 days before the announcement of a spin-off to 60 days after, the combined value of the parent and spun-off children has on average outperformed the market by eight percentage points, says Mr Stendevad.
He bludgeoned the Scotland attack and took a particular liking to the off-spin of Majid Haq - whom he dispatched over the mid-off boundary for all five of his sixes.
The company expects the spin-off to be completed in the third quarter of 2011.
The show also spawned Celebrity Big Brother, with one more series of the spin-off to be screened at the beginning of 2010.
Tony Wible, an analyst with Janney Capital Markets, said the spin-off frees Time Warner from the uncertainty of the magazine industry's digital transition.
Morale in the Discover Card unit, which Purcell created in the 1980s--and which Morgan Stanley now plans to spin off--is the highest it's been in five or six years, he said.
But times have changed and it appears that in order to avert a mass exodus of shareholders from the medical products spin-off, Abbott, the board of directors came up with what can only be described as a Solomonic solution to the critical dividend issue.
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