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** 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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* 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:
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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.
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