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OT: CBS crossovers

posted 8 years ago by machintosh2-1
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FIRST
- Is there any TV law that sitcom/ comedy can or cannot do a crossover with action/ drama?
- Is there any TV law that active show can or can't do a crossover with ended show

SECOND
- What CBS shows could do a crossovers with each others? I exclude the shows that already did a crossover with each other (like NCIS universe which contains JAG, NCIS, NCIS Los Angeles, NCIS New Orleans, Hawaii Five-0, Scorpion)

- 2 Broke Girls with Mom
- Blue Bloods with Elementary
- Blue Bloods and/ or Elementary with Bull
- Code Black with NCIS Los Angeles
- Criminal Minds with NCIS
- Bull with NCIS and/ or Blue Bloods
- Scorpion with CSI: Cyber (CSI Cyber characters could appear in Scorpion)

I am a fan of TV crossovers. It connects different shows and puts them into same universe

[–] kch-18534 8 years ago

I disagree with your concept of "same universe"...the only thing, in my opinion, that puts shows in the same universe is being born under one production team umbrella...thus, H-50 and Scorpion are not in the NCIS universe. What was done in those cross-overs with actors was nothing more than CBS cross promotion stunts. Nothing more.

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[–] purple_dave 8 years ago

Flash from the CW show appeared in a single episode of Supergirl while the latter was still being aired on CBS. But CBS co-owns the CW with Warner Bros. (who owns DC Comics), so that was easier to set up.

The Practice (ABC) did full crossovers with both Ally McBeal and Boston Public (both FOX), but all three were produced by the same company, same as the Arrowverse trio/Supergirl. Typically you'll find that in any crossover scenario, the shows involved are either produced by the same company and/or aired on the same network. Otherwise the best you'll usually get is an unspoken cameo (same actor plays what may be the same character, but no names are mentioned to make it official).

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[–] blakgard 8 years ago

Characters have crossed over in cameos several times:
- the characters from St. Elsewhere appeared on Cheers
- characters from the Jeffersons and Diff'rent Strokes were on the final episode of Fresh Prince
- the Richard Belzer character, Munch, has appeared on a few series of different networks and genres, including Sesame Street in Muppet form
- the ladies from AbFab (Britcom) were on an episode of Roseanne
I'm sure there are many other examples.

There was an Ally McBeal crossover with The Practice, which had a storyline that jumped from the Fox comedy to the ABC drama and was completed in another Ally McBeal episode weeks later.

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[–] ritawood 8 years ago

Is there any TV law that active show can or can't do a crossover with ended show

Mike Scarlatti (Sergio Di Zio) of Flashpoint had a cameo on The Listener as Scarlatti from Flashpoint after Flashpoint ended.

Former JAG characters show up with surprising regularity on NCIS as well.
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[–] k_m_simpson 8 years ago

Former JAG characters show up with surprising regularity on NCIS as well.

NCIS is a spin-off of JAG.

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[–] cbhall-1 8 years ago

Crossovers may be fine if you've been following both shows; otherwise, not so much.

[–] purple_dave 8 years ago

The only comedy/drama crossover I know of off-hand is the Ally McBeal/The Practice crossover.

Once a show has ended, future appearances of those characters are just cameos. Crossover implies that one show runs Part A, while another runs Part B. Kinda hard to do that when one of the two shows isn't running any new eps.

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[–] garn 8 years ago

Crossovers are rare, as a rule, because of the extra work, money and internal politics involved, which is why they generally only happen with current shows on the same network. No network wants to help their competition.

That being said, some strange crossovers do occasionally happen. Arrow on the CW had a crossover last year with cancelled show Constantine on NBC. Bones, a show heavily based in the real world, had a crossover last year with Sleepy Hollow which most definitely is not. Going further back, fantasy based show Early Edition had crossovers with Chicago Hope and Marshall Law, both grounded in reality. I guess you could call them genre crossovers. Like the Scorpion / Price is Right crossover from last season.

Bottom line, crossovers happen to raise awareness of and help promote the shows involved.

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[–] purple_dave 8 years ago

Constantine had a cameo on Arrow, but it was not a legit crossover. That usually requires reciprocal appearances between two series (not possible when one has already been cancelled), and I don't think we even have confirmation that Arrowverse Constantine is the same exact character from the NBC series. Watching Flash should be enough to demonstrate that Constantine would likely look the same regardless of which Earth he hails from, and the abundance of completely unrelated projects where Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill voice Batman and the Joker suggest that the NBC series doesn't even have to be part of the Arrowverse multiverse (the fact that DC's multiverses typically end up being collapsed into a single universe at some point, but don't affect _every_ DC story in the process, suggests that not every story is included in any given multiverse).

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[–] naughtynursemomo-144-107213 8 years ago

I'm pretty sure it's the same Constantine and according to articles I've read, they want to bring him back on the show for another guest spot. They just haven't figured out how yet.