ABC developing drama based on Derrick Storm novels from Castle
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Holy cow... That's got to be one of the strangest spinoff origins ever. Who's going to get the creator credit, Marlowe or Castle? 
I'm trying to think of another instance where a concept that was fictional in one series got spun off into an actual series of its own. There was that spinoff of Community's Whovian spoof Inspector Spacetime into a web series, but they weren't legally able to use the name so they had to genericize it. And there's Mork and Mindy, which spun off from a Happy Days episode that was originally just a dream, but got retconned into a real event when M&M was spun off; a rerun of the episode just before the M&M premiere had a new ending added that revealed the "dream" was real after all.
And then there's the case of Fearless Fosdick. It started out as a strip-within-a-strip in A Capp's Li'l Abner, a satirical parody of Dick Tracy that was Abner's favorite comic strip, but it took on a life and a fan following of its own. It never actually spun off as an independent comic strip, but became a semi-regular feature within Abner, got a TV spinoff of its own (while Abner itself only got a movie, although its "Shmoo" character was used in Hanna-Barbera cartoons in '79-'80), and was licensed for use in advertisements for a popular hair oil.
Oh, and of course there's Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, a cartoon that I guess was supposed to be the show that the toy of Buzz Lightyear was based on.
And I know that my fellow Trek novelist Dayton Ward has been trying to convince Pocket to let him do a Captain Proton series...
Come to think of it, this isn't so rare as I thought.
I'm trying to think of another instance where a concept that was fictional in one series got spun off into an actual series of its own. There was that spinoff of Community's Whovian spoof Inspector Spacetime into a web series, but they weren't legally able to use the name so they had to genericize it. And there's Mork and Mindy, which spun off from a Happy Days episode that was originally just a dream, but got retconned into a real event when M&M was spun off; a rerun of the episode just before the M&M premiere had a new ending added that revealed the "dream" was real after all.
And then there's the case of Fearless Fosdick. It started out as a strip-within-a-strip in A Capp's Li'l Abner, a satirical parody of Dick Tracy that was Abner's favorite comic strip, but it took on a life and a fan following of its own. It never actually spun off as an independent comic strip, but became a semi-regular feature within Abner, got a TV spinoff of its own (while Abner itself only got a movie, although its "Shmoo" character was used in Hanna-Barbera cartoons in '79-'80), and was licensed for use in advertisements for a popular hair oil.
Oh, and of course there's Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, a cartoon that I guess was supposed to be the show that the toy of Buzz Lightyear was based on.
And I know that my fellow Trek novelist Dayton Ward has been trying to convince Pocket to let him do a Captain Proton series...
Come to think of it, this isn't so rare as I thought.
Well, while there wouldn't be a direct crossover, Castle, Beckett & Co. should be able to visit the set of the series in-universe, no? And interact with comically overdone versions of the real actors. They already did it for the Nikki Heat movies...
Mark
Mark
In-universe movies, not real life.
I think they missed an opportunity by not doing an actual Nikki Heat movie as a show tie-in. Although I wish they would've cast a more appealing lead actress than Laura Prepon.
Of course, what's weird about the Nikki Heat novels is that they're more grounded and realistic than the "real" world of the show in which they're supposedly works of fiction.
Of course, what's weird about the Nikki Heat novels is that they're more grounded and realistic than the "real" world of the show in which they're supposedly works of fiction.