Question of the week: what two shows would you cross over?

23 February 2011 Rob Buckley UK TV, US TV 6 Comments

After a few relatively earnest questions of the week of late, let’s go fun. A crossover, as I’m sure Toby will elucidate on if you ask him nicely, is when characters from one TV show appear on another TV show. The simplest crossovers usually occur in spin-offs (eg CSI and CSI:Miami, Doctor Who and Torchwood), or between shows from the same producers or on the same networks (eg The X-Files and Millennium, CSI and Without A Trace, Scrubs and Cougar Town) but other crossovers do take place (eg Homicide and Law & Order: SVU). 

We don’t have to be so limited though. This week’s simple question is

Which two TV shows would you cross over and why?

And if that’s too hard, just tell us what your favourite TV crossover is?

As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog

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    I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.

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