Why wasn't Theo spun-off into his own program

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In 1992-93, a year after The Cosby Show ended, Malcolm-Jamal Warner starred in another NBC sitcom produced by Bill Cosby called Here and Now. It only lasted for a season's worth of 15 episodes (the last two were never aired on NBC) and Bill Cosby himself, said that the cancellation was justified since he felt that it wasn't written well enough.

But my main question is that why wasn't Here and Now simply a Theo Huxtable spin-off and would it been more successful had it played up the Cosby Show connection more? I mean, it wasn't like Malcolm-Jamal Warner wasn't playing a character too far removed from Theo anyway.

Was it not turned into a full-blown spin-off because they already tried and failed with another one of the Huxtable kids with Lisa Bonet/Denise and A Different World?

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Since only those people know at the time what the real issues was, it's hard for us to speculate on something like this.

I personally didn't remember about this show. I'd like to see the episodes...maybe I can find it somewhere on Youtube.

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Originally Posted by Couch Potato 05

Since only those people know at the time what the real issues was, it's hard for us to speculate on something like this.

I personally didn't remember about this show. I'd like to see the episodes...maybe I can find it somewhere on Youtube.

Here's Malcolm-Jamal Warner discussing the show and how the network set it up to fail, by having it air on Saturdays instead of Thursdays, even though the show had the second highest ranking pilot that year.