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{{quote|'''Meatwad:''' Won't you ask that TV if he minds showing me some ''[[Futurama]]''? I like me some ''[[Futurama]]''.
'''Master Shake:''' Well now we're too damn cheap to receive it, so go the hell over to [[Comedy Central|Carl Central]] and watch it to your heart's content!
'''Meatwad:''' Carl gets ''[[Futurama]]''?
'''Master Shake:''' He didn't even want it until we started watching it!
|''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'', "[http://www.adultswim.com/video/?episodeID{{=}}8a25c39218e52ef60118e79454b3000d Bible Fruit]"}}
{{quote|''[[I Am Not Shazam|The Animaniacs]] are now at their new [[Kids WB]] home and everyone's happy about it! Well, almost everyone. Every weekday, make the change to [[Kids WB]]''|'''[[Jeff Bennett]]''' in an early [[Kids WB]] promo for ''[[Animaniacs]]''}}
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** And just like the trope, it may be poorly performing on one channel while on another channel it skyrockets in popularity. Of course, a 3.5 rating on ABC is cancel-worthy; a 3.5 rating on USA is cause for celebration.
* Behind-the-Scenes Politics: One network made a great offer and the current network isn't dedicated enough to hold on to the show.
* New Umbrella Channel: A major production company gets the needed things in order so they can have a network station that only airs their programming. Or that production company buys out the network channel. [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] was bought by [[Disney]] in 1996, [[UPN]] was owned by [[Paramount]], [[The WB]] was owned by [[Warner Brothers]], and there are even more when it comes to cable channels.
Note that this only counts ''new'' episodes; else, the sheer number of places they've shown ''[[Looney Tunes]]'' reruns would make the page overflow. Channels calling episodes "premieres" when they know full well that they originally aired somewhere else are telling you [[Blatant Lies]].
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* ''The Danny Thomas Show'' (aka ''Make Room for Daddy'') jumped from ABC to CBS in 1957.
* ''[[T. J. Hooker]]'' was cancelled after four seasons by ABC, CBS picked up season five and aired the new episodes in its 11:30PM Crimetime After Primetime slot.
* ''[[Sister, Sister]]'' from [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] to [[The WB]].
* ''[[Family Matters]]'' from ABC to CBS.
* ''[[Step by Step]]'' made the ABC to CBS move at the exact same time as [[Family Matters]]. Neither lasted more than one season on the new channel.
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* ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' started on ABC in 1959 as ''Rocky and His Friends'', then moved to NBC in 1961 where it was retitled ''The Bullwinkle Show.'' It ran in prime time for two years and Saturday morning for one more. It then moved ''back'' to ABC in 1964 for eight years in reruns until it was syndicated and given the title it is now best known by. It was also syndicated in 30-minute components as ''Rocky and His Friends'' and in 15-minute components as ''The Rocky Show.''
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' (American) from ABC to ABC Family. Although all of its content was taped before the move, there were unaired episodes still in the can, as well as enough raw footage that the producers could create "new" shows several years after taping ended.
* ''[[
* ''The Hughleys'' moved from [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] to [[UPN]] in 2000.
* When ''[[Taxi]]'' was cancelled by ABC, NBC picked it up; it ran for one more season. They kept it at Thursday Nights at 9:00, and ran ads with Danny Devito saying "[[Take That|Same time, better station!]]"
* ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' moved from [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] to [[The WB]]
* [[Aaron Sorkin]] briefly mulled moving ''[[Sports Night]]'' to HBO.
* ''[[Teamo Supremo]]'' started on ABC and moved to [[Toon Disney]] after [[One Saturday Morning]] went defunct.
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== From NBC to... ==
* ''[[Guiding Light]]'' from [[NBC]] radio (where it started in 1937) to [[CBS]] radio; from there it moved to CBS television in [[The Fifties]] – where it spent the rest of its record 72-year run (ending in 2009). Daytime serials are in an otherwise-unusual position as copyrights and trademarks to the [[Soap Opera]]'s characters are often owned by the primary sponsor (in this case, Proctor & Gamble) and not the network or a syndicated production company.
* ''[[JAG]]'' from
* ''[[Baywatch]]'' from NBC to syndication.
* ''[[Concentration]]'' from NBC to syndication.
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* ''[[Scrubs]]'' moved from NBC to ABC in 2008. Apparently some people were confused because ABC owned the show anyway, so it was a strange instance of being owned by one network and aired by another.
* ''[[Medium]]'' from NBC to CBS in September 2009, cozied between ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'' and ''[[Numb3rs]]''; before it moved, it was the last CBS-produced show that wasn't on CBS or [[The CW]] (which CBS owns half of).
* ''[[Passions]]'' and ''[[Friday Night Lights (TV series)|Friday Night Lights]]'' both went from NBC to The 101 on
* ''[[Get Smart]]'' moved from NBC to CBS for its fifth and final season. Don't tell me, Max, that this moved to CBS just to [[Jumped the Shark|jump the shark]].
** [[Running Gag|I asked you not to tell me that]].
** [[Catch Phrase|Sorry about that, Chief]].
* ''[[Southland]]'' from NBC to TNT.
* ''[[Late Night]]
* ''I'll Fly Away'' was briefly revived on [[PBS]] after cancellation by NBC.
* ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'''s seventh season was its first after moving to USA.
* ''[[Silver Spoons]]'' and ''[[Punky Brewster]]'' both jumped from NBC to syndication (both shows, along with [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] to [[CBS]] jumper ''[[Family Matters]]'', were produced by David Duclon).
* ''[[Conan O'Brien]]'' from NBC to TBS after some serious [[Executive Meddling]].
* ''The Father Dowling Mysteries'' from NBC to ABC.
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* ''Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventures'' to Fox. The new DIC-produced episodes were received so poorly that Fox replayed the far better Hanna-Barbera episodes aired the season before on CBS.
* ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' to ABC, then to the WB, and later [[Cartoon Network]]. Reruns have also been shown on TNT, TBS, [[USA Network]], Boomerang, and in syndication.
* ''[[Supergirl (TV series)|Supergirl]]'' jumped to [[The CW]] after a year (2015-2016), and it has run there for three seasons as of this writing (with a fourth confirmed).
== From The WB to... ==
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' moved from [[The WB]] to [[UPN]] after its fifth season.
* ''[[Smallville]]'' aired its first five seasons on [[The WB]] before moving to [[The CW]] for its last five seasons after [[The WB]] and its rival [[UPN]] merged to make [[The CW]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Cubix Robots for Everyone|Cubix]]'' went from WB to [[FOX]]. This was lampshaded by a [[Take That]] in ''[[The Fight for the Fox Box]]''.
== From FOX to... ==
* ''[[Futurama]]'' is an interesting example. From [[
* ''[[Sliders]]'' from [[
* ''[[Animaniacs]]'' from [[Fox Kids]] to [[The WB]] when the latter first formed. Lampshaded in several of the earliest promotional spots for the block.
* ''[[Power Rangers]]'' from [[Fox Kids]] to both ABC & Jetix (on both ABC Family & [[Toon Disney]]). Then another move, as of 2011, to both [[Nickelodeon]] & Nicktoons.
* When [[4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]] acquired the CW's Saturday morning airtime, ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003) and ''[[Dinosaur King]]'' moved their premieres over there.
* ''[[Grounded for Life]]'' from Fox to [[The WB]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Arrested Development]]'' aired in reruns on G4, then was picked up for new episodes on [[Netflix]].
== From PBS to... ==
* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' from [[PBS]] to [[
* ''[[Ghostwriter (TV series)|Ghostwriter]]'' from [[PBS]] to [[UPN]] to [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] to [[Nick Jr.|Noggin]] to [[The N]].
* ''[[Shining Time Station]]'' from [[PBS]] to Fox Family (now [[ABC Family]]) to [[Nick Jr.]] on [[Nickelodeon]].
* ''[[Adventures from the Book of Virtues]]'' from [[PBS]] to both Qubo & BYUtv.
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== From a Cable Channel to... ==
* ''[[Doug]]'' from [[Nickelodeon]] to Disney's [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]].
* This happens with a lot of sister/parent networks, as they often show the same shows at the same time. ''[[Kappa Mikey]]'' was produced solely for Nicktoons Network, but because it was controlled by their larger parent network [[Nickelodeon]], new episodes sometimes premiered there first. When episodes stopped airing on Nick but continued on Nicktoons, some took this to mean it was canceled. It never had a consistent airing schedule either, and time will tell if it gets syndicated somewhere else.
* ''[[WWE Raw]]'' from USA to TNN which [[Network Decay|renamed itself Spike TV]], and then back to USA.
** ''[[WWE Smackdown]]'' itself network hopped, from [[UPN]] to [[The CW]], then to [[My Network TV]], and will hop again to [[
** ''Sunday Night HEAT'' went from USA to MTV, then it joined Raw on Spike tv for a few years befor becoming an international and internet show only for the last years of its life.
* The 90's version of ''[[The Outer Limits]]'' also moved from Showtime to the Sci-Fi channel for it's seventh and final season. (The producers of ''SG-1'' were already known for the 90s Outer Limits when the show started)
* ''[[Project Runway]]'' moved from Bravo to Lifetime after the fifth season.
* ''[[
* ''[[Naruto]]'', from Naruto on [[Cartoon Network]] to ''Naruto Shippuden'' on [[Disney XD]]
* The ''[[Gundam]]'' franchise moved from [[Cartoon Network]] to [[
** This also happened in its native country of Japan. In 2002, the franchise moved their series from [[TV Asahi]] to Tokyo Broadcasting System starting with ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED]].''
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' is a rather odd example. From the second season onward, new episodes moved from [[Disney Channel]] to [[Disney XD]], however it still airs regularly on the former which still treats it as its own series and airs [[Blatant Lies|brand new]] episodes anywhere from a week to a month after its sister network.
* ''Damages'' from FX to The 101 on [[Direc TV]].
* ''[[Madeline]]'' from HBO to The Family Channel (now [[ABC Family]]) to [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] to [[Disney Channel]].
* American broadcasts of ''[[Doctor Who]]'' moved from [[
* American broadcasts of ''[[Torchwood]]'' moved from [[
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' moved from Showtime to the Sci-Fi Channel after its fifth season.
== From ITV to... ==
* ''[[Auf Wiedersehen, Pet]]'' went from ITV (in the 1980s) to the BBC (the 2000s revival).
* Not a true Channel Hop, but ''[[Randall and Hopkirk Deceased]]''. an 1960s ITV show, was remade in 2000 as ''Randall & Hopkirk (Deceased)'' by the BBC.
* The Broadcast Rights of ''Batfink'', ''Dangermouse'', ,''Looney Tunes'', ''Pinky and the Brain'', ''Scooby-Doo''', ''Taz Mania'', ''Tom and Jerry Kids'', ''Tots TV'', ''Uncle Max'' and ''Yoko! Tokamoto! Toto'' since 1998, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010 have moved from ITV ot the BBC
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* Up until its seventh and final season ''[[Robot Wars (TV series)|Robot Wars]]'' had aired on [[The BBC|BBC2]], for its 7th season it moved to Channel 5.
* BBC Two's ''[[Red Dwarf]]'' was put on hold during [[Development Hell]] of [[The Movie]] but eventually after a surprise ratings success of reruns on the channel Dave - in 2009 the channel aired a three-part Easter Special ''Back to Earth'' with further episodes commissioned.
* ''[[The Goodies]]'' was dropped by the BBC in 1981 and was picked up by LWT (now ITV London).
* In Britain ''[[Monk]]'' moved terrestrially from [[BBC 2]] to [[ITV 1]].
* Unlike ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''[[Angel]]'' did not get shown on [[BBC 2]] but rather on [[Channel 4]]. But only the first season. [[Idiot Ball|At 6 in the evening]]. (David Fury's response to this scheduling - "Shock and disbelief are mine!" - was echoed by many fans.) The second season got bought by [[Channel Five]] and shown post-midnight; the remaining three seasons have never been shown terrestrially.
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* [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWF]] Superstars was on in syndication for about a decade before it hoped over to Sunday morning on the [[USA Network]] to replace Action Zone. It would hope one again five years later when WWF moved all their programs to Viacom channels and it landed on TNN for about a year before it was canceled. The show later had a [[Revival]] on yet another network [[WGN America]] where it stayed for 2 years but its contract was not renewed, it is currently being aired only in overseas markets and is streamed online.
* [[Babylon 5]] did four seasons in syndication before TNT ponied up the ''caysh'' for a fifth season ''plus ALL those TV movies (including the [[
* Oddly, ''[[Beakman's World]]'' from [[Syndication]] to CBS.
* ''[[Trollz]]'' and the animated ''Sabrina'' both went from syndication to CBS (though this had to do with CBS'S block renter DiC needing [[An Aesop|educational]] programming for said block).
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' moved from syndication to [[Fox Kids]] in Fall 1992, after which they added [[Biting the Hand Humor|"The Fox network executives" as a new pair of villains.]]
* The ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime franchise spent its first half-season in Fall 1998 in syndication, then was picked up by [[Kids WB]] in early 1999, where it remained until 4Kids' rights to the show ended in 2006. Then, the new episodes of the show were handed over to Cartoon Network by Pokemon USA, who had been previously running reruns of the show for years. The original series is now in reruns on Boomerang, while Cartoon Network continues to play new episodes of the current series.
** In the UK and Ireland, Pokemon was initially aired on SKYONE iup to around the Johto era, before their version of Cartoon Network picked up new episodes of the show. Since then, reruns, new episodes and the movies can be found on the CITV channel as well as [[Disney XD]]
* ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' started out in syndication in 1995, but only the first 65 episodes were shown before the show went into re-runs and was ultimately pulled. It was then picked up for cable by ''Turner Broadcasting'' and spent a few months being re-shown on ''[[USA Network]]'' before it was moved to ''[[Cartoon Network]]'''s ''[[Toonami]]'' action block where it found new life, and premiered 94 new episodes, and 3 movies!
* The original ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' series was in syndication for only 13 episodes in 1995 before it was canceled. It was eventually picked up by ''[[Toonami]]'' in 2001 (with an all new English dub), due to the success of Dragon Ball Z, where it ended up finishing it's 153 episode run.
* ''[[Gargoyles]]'' from syndication to ABC; [[Retool|ReTooled]] as ''Gargoyles: The Goliath Chronicles''. But [[Fanon Discontinuity|the fans like to think ''The Goliath Chronicles'' never happened]].
** Neither does the creator, who declared it non-canon.
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* Possibly the first instance of this trope, ''[[Mr. Ed]]'' was originally a first run syndicated show before being picked up by CBS.
* [[Inspector Gadget]] had a brief run on CBS in 1992 after runs in syndication and Nickelodeon.
* ''The [[Howard Stern]] Show'' ran in syndication from WXRK in New York City from 1986-2005; it then channel-hopped to [[SiriusXM]] satellite radio after a long list of run-ins with the [[Media Watchdog|Federal Communications Commission]].
* ''[[101 Dalmatians|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' had an interesting example: it was syndicated ''and'' shown on ABC's [[One Saturday Morning]] at the same time!
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* ''[[Home and Away]]'' was initially picked up by ITV in Britain. Around the turn of the century it hopped over to Five, but not before ITV enacted a clause that made us wait a year and a half to see new episodes.
** The same channel picked up "rival" Australian soap ''Neighbours'' from [[The BBC]] after the contract was too costly for the BBC to renew.
* In Britain, the first two seasons of ''[[Totally Spies!]]'' were shown on Channel 4, often in the early hours of the morning with little publicity. It moved to ITV from season 3 who aired at more respectable times of the morning with more publicity.
* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' was originally aired on NTV7 in Malaysia with Malay subtitles. By the time of ''Master Quest'' (season 5) the show moved to tv9 and was now dubbed.
* In Malaysia, ''[[Winx Club]]'' moved from TV3 to NTV7.
** And while we're dealing with the Winx, they've had several homes in the UK: GMTV (ITV), Nickelodeon UK, and most recently Pop Girl. (Also, see below.)
** In Australia, they didn't just hop between channels (from [[Network Ten]] and Cartoon Network to Boomerang), they also hopped dubs for season 4 (necessitated by 4Kids not having the rights to dub that season).
** [[Nickelodeon]]'s acquirement of the ''Winx'' property will necessitate a
* All of the shows on [[The CW]]'s first season hopped over from [[The WB]] and [[UPN]], except for ''Runaway'' and ''The Game''. Depending on the market, some shows may not have really hopped at all (if the former WB or UPN station landed a CW affiliation).
** ''The Game'' has since hopped to BET.
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* ''[[Home Movies]]'' from UPN to [[Adult Swim]].
* ''Jail'' from My Network TV to Spike TV.
* ''[[
* ''[[The Hitchhiker]]'' from HBO to USA.
* Like ''[[Angel]]'', ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' suffered from fragmented and censored airings (season 1 on Channel 4, season 2 on Channel 5) and moreso, with Sky One dropping the series after the first two seasons and Bravo screening the other three.
* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' made its British debut on [[Nickelodeon]], but only the first three seasons were shown (and were prone to being censored); it later moved to the Hallmark Channel (where seasons four and five premiered) and ultimately to E4 (which has shown all seven seasons).
* Unlike many imported series dropped by Channel 5 - and there are ''many'': ''[[That '70s Show]]'', ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]'', ''[[JAG]]'', ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' and so on (basically any American series that doesn't have ''[[CSI]]'' in the title) - ''[[Charmed]]'' found another terrestrial home for its final season, moving to Channel 4.
* Both ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' and ''[[Wizards of Waverly Place]]'' moved from Channel 5 to ITV.
* ''[[The Practice]]'' was on ITV, the BBC and [[Sky 1]].
* The first two seasons of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' were on Living, but the third and final season was on Trouble.
* Although [[David Letterman]] has a cult following in Britain, ''[[Late Show
* The first season of ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'' was on E4, but from season two it was shown on Living (a better fit, given that Living is known for running ghost-themed shows like ''Most Haunted'').
* ''You Don't Say!'' (NBC), ''Seven Keys'' (ABC), and ''Beat The Odds'' (syndication) all began as local shows in Los Angeles before going national.
* ''[[The Golden Girls]]'' didn't change channels, but it nearly changed ''producers'' - in 1991 Touchstone Television decided against making any more episodes for financial reasons. Warner Bros. Television said they'd step into the breach, but that plan fell apart when Beatrice Arthur announced she was quitting.
* On the other hand, when Cannon Television ran into financial problems of their own after the first few episodes of ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]'', [[CBS]] (with some help from Columbia Pictures Television) agreed to foot the bill thereafter.
* Similarly, the NBC episodes of ''[[Baywatch]]'' were produced by GTG Entertainment - making for a strange-but-true link between this series and ''[[Mary Tyler Moore]]'', as MTM's ex Grant Tinker was the "GT"<ref>Gannett Newspapers supplied the "G"</ref> - while the syndicated ones hailed from Tower 12 Productions/The Baywatch Production Company (and due to financial involvement from Britain's London Weekend Television thanks to [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|Brits ''and'' Germans loving David Hasselhoff]], the end credits carried the card "A Baywatch Production Company Production for LWT").
* The pilot for ''The Highwayman'' was made by Glen A. Larson's company at [[Twentieth Century Fox]], but the series was produced on a lower budget by Larson's New West Entertainment.
* ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' and ''The Bold And The Beautiful'' both jumped from Channel 5 to cable channels - ''[[Sunset Beach]]'' notwithstanding, American daytime soaps (unlike [[Dallas|their]] [[Dynasty|nighttime]] [[Desperate Housewives|counterparts]]) have never had much success in Britain.
* In Britain ''[[Pretty Little Liars]]'' moved from Viva to the sister channel [[MTV]] thanks to Viva beginning the series a few months after it launched on ABC Family (the series premiered in June 2010 in the US, and in October of the same year in Britain) and falling afoul of its long mid-season gap; by the time the series began again from the beginning on MTV in 2011, the first season was complete. British fans of ''[[Community]]'', which began on Viva at the same time and was also dropped, weren't so fortunate - the ''second'' season began running in April 2012 on Sony Entertainment Television.<ref>(given that the series is a co-production of Sony and Universal it was that or the Universal Channel, and as they don't show comedies...)</ref>
* The short-lived ''[[The Onion|Onion]] Sports Network'' started out as a feature on ESPN's [[Sports Center]] before jumping to [[Comedy Central]].
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' was evidently ''trying'' to hop to a cable network after [[Screwed by the Network|abuse by the execs at Fox]], as evidenced (and [[Jossed]]) by this veiled joke in Season Three:
{{quote|
'''Michael Bluth''': No, the [[Fun with Acronyms|HBO]]'s not gonna want us. What do we do now?
'''George Sr.''': Well, I think it's [[Showtime]]- ...we have to have a show during dinner. }}
* This is adverted ''hard'' with Mexican public TV: All the programs created and broadcasted (including foreign-made series and movies) in the two only Mexican networks (Televisa and TV Azteca) belongs to ''those'' networks and ''those'' networks only. Those programs cannot be switch over to the rival network (especially network-created shows like soap operas, TV shows, etc), but there's a few exceptions to the rule:
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* ''[[Digimon Xros Wars]]'' ended the ''[[Digimon]]'' franchise's longtime home at [[Fuji Television]], moving over to [[TV Asahi]]. This may have been justified in how ''[[Dragon Ball Kai]]'' was occupying its traditional timeslot on Fuji.
* ''[[Kath and Kim]]'' (the Australian one) from [[The ABC]] (the Australian one) to the [[Seven Network]].
* The
* British fans of ''[[Breaking Bad]]'' have seen the show dropped by two broadcasters (FX and [[Channel Five|FiveUSA]]).
== Rare Film Examples ==
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** Universal did it again, taking ''[[Kick-Ass (film)|Kick Ass]]'' from [[Lionsgate]].
* [[Development Hell|Chronic]] with ''[[The Terminator]]'' films. Every. single. movie. Actual distribution is even worse (first one: Orion theatrically, currently MGM; second: [[Tri-Star Pictures]] theatrically and some video releases - others involved with home distribution include Lionsgate, Artisan and Universal; third/fourth: Warner domestically, Sony overseas).
** To elaborate why: The first was made by Hemdale Film Corporation, who were bought by [[Orion Pictures]],<ref>whose library is owned by MGM, thus the DVD is theirs</ref>
** And now there is a legal dispute over the animated movie rights between Pacificor (the current rights holders) and Hannover House (a company formed by a former Hemdale employee).
*** And apparently the rights were [http://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/terminator-5-rights-fall-megan-ellison/ purchased again by Annapurna Pictures] (lead by Megan Ellison, daughter of the Oracle founder).
**** Lionsgate will distribute the fifth one if it is made.
* ''[[Rambo]]'' from Carolco Pictures to [[Lionsgate]]/TheWeinsteinCompany.
* ''[[Friday the 13th (film)|Friday the 13 th]]'' from [[Paramount]] to New Line after the first 8 films. (allowing them to [[Crossover]] [[Freddy vs. Jason|with]] [[A Nightmare on Elm Street|their franchise
* The ''[[Halloween (film)|Halloween]]'' franchise went from Compass International for the first film to Universal Pictures for the second and third films, to Galaxy International for the fourth and fifth films, and finally to Dimension for the sixth, seventh, and eighth films (working with Mirimax for the eighth). The current DVD distributors are Anchor Bay for films 1, 4-5, Universal Home Video for films 2 and 3, and Dimension/Lionsgate for films 6-8.
* Walter Lantz, who made ''[[Woody Woodpecker]]'' jumped ship from [[Universal]] Pictures to [[United Artists]] in 1947. Lantz then briefly shut down his studio in 1949. The studio reopened in 1951 and went back to Universal as his distributor.
* ''[[Hellraiser]]'' from New World to Dimension.
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* As [[Marvel Comics]] opened a studio, they are starting to get back the rights to their characters (leading Fox and Columbia to try to keep the ones they own - X-Men/Fantastic Four/Daredevil for the former, Spider-Man/Ghost Rider for the latter). So far they got Punisher (got a new movie in 2008), Hulk (included in ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'') and Blade.
** As Marvel Studios' deal with Paramount ended and Disney bought Marvel Comics, the [[Marvel Cinematic Universe]] (of which only ''[[The Incredible Hulk (film)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' was shipped by another studio, Universal) is now distributed by Walt Disney Pictures (though [[Executive Meddling]] pasted Paramount's logo into the first Disney-handled pic, ''[[The Avengers (film)|The Avengers]]'').
* The first ''[[
** Amazingly enough, [[United Artists]] picked up the third ''[[
* This can happen to singular movies as well. When Miramax was sold by Disney, their unreleased movies ended up going to different distributors. ''[[Gnomeo and Juliet]]'' and ''[[The Tempest]]'' stayed with Disney and were released by Touchstone, ''[[Don't Be Afraid of the Dark]]'' went to Film District (releasing through [[Tri-Star Pictures]] domestically), ''[[Last Night]]'' went to Tribeca (and returned to Miramax through Echo Bridge for DVD) and ''[[The Debt]]'' went to [[Universal Studios]]'s Focus division.
* ''[[Fright Night]]'' was backed by Columbia Pictures and a production of Vista Films; for the sequel was done by Vista and distributed by Columbia's sister studio Tristar internationally - and the remake came from DreamWorks.
* ''[[Arlington Road]]'' was to have been originally released by [[Polygram Filmed Entertainment]] but after a delay (due to Columbine) and Polygram merging with October Films (to become USA Films and later Focus Features), the film was sold to Screen Gems.
* ''[[Mulholland Drive]]'' was originally shot for the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] network and financed by [[Disney|Touchstone Pictures]]. After ABC passed on it, director [[David Lynch]] decided to rework it and got production company Studio Canal to buy the film and finance the shooting of new footage. [[Universal]] ended up releasing the film as part of their relationship with Studio Canal.
* The ''[[Emmanuelle (video game)]]'' films released theatrically went from Columbia to Paramount to Miramax to Cannon. Four films, four distributors.
== Rare TV-To-Film Examples ==
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* The film of ''[[Lost in Space]]'' was made by New Line, though the series itself was from Fox.
* Although ''[[The Fugitive (TV series)|The Fugitive]]'' was a Quinn Martin Production in association with [[United Artists]] Television, and the series is owned today (like almost the entire QM back catalogue) by CBS/Paramount, [[The Fugitive (film)|the film]] came from [[Warner Bros]]
* ''[[Star Trek: The
== Radio Examples ==
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