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{{quote|'''Meatwad:''' Won't you ask that TV if he minds showing me some ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''? I like me some ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''.<br />
'''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!<br />
'''Meatwad:''' Carl gets ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]''?<br />
'''Master Shake:''' He didn't even want it until we started watching it!|''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force (Animation)|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 (Animation)|Animaniacs]]''}}
 
Television shows are usually not directly owned by a particular channel, although once they have a contract to air the show they often have some creative control of it. The only exception is first-run syndicated shows that are owned entirely by the production company and distributed to individual stations, regardless of their network affiliation. At other times a show might be owned and produced by a specific network but the rights to air it were bought out by another network. It's a complicated business where all that matters sometimes is the bottom line.
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Just like sports teams, there are many reasons for a show to switch from one place to another.
* Contract Buy-Outs: The show is exceptionally popular and when a contract expires two or more channels bid for new seasons.
* [[Vindicated Byby History]]: The [[Ratings]] weren't high enough on one station so they [[Cancellation|didn't renew]] it for a new season, so another station [[Un CanceledUncanceled|grabbed the show up]] and it moved over.
** 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.
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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]].
{{examples|Examples:}}
 
== From ABC to... ==
 
* ''The Danny Thomas Show'' (aka ''Make Room for Daddy'') jumped from ABC to CBS in 1957.
* ''[[TJT. 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 [[ABC]] to [[The WB]].
* ''[[Family Matters]]'' from ABC to CBS.
* ''[[Step Byby 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.
* ''[[The Critic]]'' from ABC to FOX ([[Lampshaded]]: "I used to have a big show on ABC - for about a week!") to Comedy Central to "webisodes" on the Internet (also made fun of on the first "webisode").
* ''[[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 (TV)?|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.
* ''[[Re Boot]]'' from [[ABC]] to [[Cartoon Network]], with 6 years or so between them. Apparently ''[[Re Boot]]'' was canceled solely because ABC was bought out by Disney, who wanted purely Disney owned programming, which Reboot did not fit. The third season was produced in syndication through Canadian channels and the US didn't get that season until [[Cartoon Network]] picked it up two years later. Being [[Vindicated Byby Reruns]], that paved the way for a fourth season.
* ''The Hughleys'' moved from [[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 [[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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* ''[[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 [[Direc TV]] (a US satellite provider, for those non-US tropers here).
* ''[[Get Smart (TV)|Get Smart]]'' moved from NBC to CBS for its fifth and final season.
* ''[[Southland]]'' from NBC to TNT.
* ''Late Night With [[David Letterman]]'' went from NBC to CBS in 1994, but because NBC owned the rights to the "Late Night" name, the show was renamed ''Late Show With David Letterman''. ''Late Show'' is virtually identical to ''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 [[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.
* ''[[The Ghost and Mrs. Muir]]'' from NBC to ABC.
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* ''The Match Game'' landed on CBS four years after NBC canceled it, had a syndicated daily edition in 1979 (a nighttime edition ran concurrently and started in 1975), then it reappeared on NBC in 1983 as ''The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour,'' then on ABC in 1990 as simply ''Match Game'', and then another syndicated edition appeared in 1998.
* ''You Don't Say!'' was rebooted for ABC six years after NBC dropped it.
* ''[[MamasMama's Family (TV)|Mamas Family]]'' went to first-run syndication after one year on NBC.
 
== From CBS to... ==
 
* ''[[Charles in Charge]]'' from CBS to syndication.
* ''[[The Jokers Wild]]'' and ''[[Tic -Tac -Dough]]'' from CBS to syndication.
* ''Search For Tomorrow'' from CBS to NBC.
* ''Edge of Night'' from CBS to ABC.
* ''[[Password]]'' started on CBS, then was canceled and revived on ABC. It was canceled and revived again on NBC as ''Password Plus'', then later ''Super Password''. It came full circle back to CBS, revived as ''Million Dollar Password'' nearly 20 years after ''Super Password'' was canceled and over 40 years since ''Password'' first debuted on CBS.
* ''[[Ghost Whisperer]]'' was supposed to jump to ABC for the 2010-11 season but Jennifer Love Hewitt turned down an offer to return for another season so the show was canceled instead.
* ''[[Flashpoint (TV series)|Flashpoint]]'' will move from CBS to [[ION]] effective October 18, 2011.
* ''[[Airwolf]]'' from CBS to USA for its final season.
* ''The $10,000 Pyramid'' to ABC. It was later retitled ''The $20,000 Pyramid'' and returned to CBS as ''The $25,000 Pyramid.''
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== From The WB to... ==
 
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' moved from [[The WB]] to [[UPN]] after its fifth season.
* [[Johnny Test]] left WB at the end of the first season and went to Canada's Teletoon and [[Cartoon Network]] at the same time.
* ''[[Cubix Robots for Everyone|Cubix]]'' went from WB to [[FOXFox]]. This was lampshaded by a [[Take That]] in ''[[The Fight for Thethe Fox Box]]''.
 
== From FOX to... ==
 
* ''[[Futurama (Animation)|Futurama]]'' is an interesting example. From [[FOXFox]] to [[Adult Swim]] was only reruns, but it was then picked up by [[Comedy Central]], which now airs new episodes.
* ''[[Sliders]]'' from [[FOXFox]] to the [[Sci Fi Channel]].
* ''[[Animaniacs (Animation)|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 [[Four Kids4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]] acquired the CW's Saturday morning airtime, ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003) and ''[[Dinosaur King]]'' moved their premieres over there.
* ''[[Grounded for Life]]'' from Fox to [[The WB]].
* ''[[Americas Most Wanted|America's Most Wanted]]'' went to Lifetime beginning Dec. 2, 2011, after Fox canceled the show for a second time. Fox continues to air quarterly specials.
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== From PBS to... ==
 
* ''[[The Magic School Bus]]'' from [[PBS]] to [[FOXFox]] to [[Discovery Channel|Discovery Kids]], TLC & later Qubo.
* ''[[Ghostwriter]]'' from [[PBS]] to [[UPN]] to [[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 Fromfrom the Book of Virtues]]'' from [[PBS]] to both Qubo & BYUtv.
 
== From a Cable Channel to... ==
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* ''[[Project Runway]]'' moved from Bravo to Lifetime after the fifth season.
* ''[[Sixteen]]'', in America, had a brief stint on Nickelodeon, before being booted over to [[Cartoon Network]].
* ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'', from Naruto on [[Cartoon Network]] to ''Naruto Shippuden'' on [[Disney XD]]
* The ''[[Gundam]]'' franchise moved from [[Cartoon Network]] to [[Sy Fy]] starting with ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]].''
** 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 SeedSEED]].''
* ''[[Phineas and Ferb (Animation)|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 [[ABC]] to [[Disney Channel]].
* American broadcasts of ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' moved from [[Sy Fy]] to [[The BBC|BBC America]] (who had repeat rights previously) after New Series 4.
* American broadcasts of ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' moved from [[Sy Fy]] to Starz with the Starz co-produced ''[[Torchwood: Miracle Day (TV)|Miracle Day]]''. Starz saw a big subscriber jump as a result of the move.
* ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' moved from Showtime to the Sci-Fi Channel after its fifth season.
 
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* ''[[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 (TV)|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
** Similarly ''University Challenge'' is an ITV show that was revived on the BBC (both versions produced by the ITV company Granada).
* [[Men Behaving Badly]] first appeared on ITV, but was dropped by them after two series due to disappointing ratings and Harry Enfield having left after the first series. It wasn't until the BBC got it and transmitted it in a later slot that it became a massive hit.
* [[Ronnie Barker]]'s ''Hark at Barker'' on ITV had a more-or-less direct sequel, ''His Lordship Entertains'', on the BBC, featuring the same cast. Unfortunately ''[[Missing Episode|His Lordship Entertains]]'' [[Missing Episode|was wiped]] (though the scripts have appeared in a book by Barker).
* ''[[Hill Street Blues]]'' and ''[[Scarecrow and Mrs. King (TV)|Scarecrow and Mrs. King]]'' were let go by ITV, but picked up by Channel 4 (the former can still be seen on Channel 4 today).
* [[Upstairs, Downstairs]] was originally an ITV show that is now receiving a modern BBC remake.
* ''Blockbusters'' moved from ITV to Sky, to BBC 2, back to Sky, and is now on Challenge.
 
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* In the UK, ''[[Neighbours]]'' moved from the [[The BBC|BBC1]] (who broke the series and where it had been a fixed staple of the daytime schedules for over 20 years), to Five in 2008.
* 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 (TV)|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 (TV)|The Goodies]]'' was dropped by the BBC in 1981 and was picked up by LWT (now ITV London).
* In Britain ''[[Monk (TV)|Monk]]'' moved terrestrially from [[BBC 2]] to [[ITV 1]].
* Unlike ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', ''[[Angel (TV)|Angel]]'' did not get shown on [[BBC 2]] but rather on [[Channel Four4]]. 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.
* Even ''[[The Simpsons]]'' fell victim; when it arrived on British (terrestrial) television in 1997 it was first shown on [[The BBC|BBC1]] - and was beaten in the ratings by ''[[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'' on ITV (one of the few long-running American shows that ITV has screened every episode of). The show was eventually moved to [[The BBC|BBC2]], and ultimately [[Channel Four4]] took it.
* ''[[The Office]]'' (US version) went from BBC2 to ITV3, and is now on [[Comedy Central]].
* ''[[How I Met Your Mother]]'' was originally shown in the UK on [[The BBC|BBC2]], but they dropped it after one season; [[Channel Four4|E4]], perhaps its natural home in Britain, took it up thereafter.
* ''[[Law and& Order (TV)|Law and Order]]'' didn't last long on [[The BBC|BBC1]], but eventually found a happy home on [[Channel Five]].
* [[Formula One]] had always been on the BBC until it was sold to ITV, until it went back onto the BBC and was in turn sold to Sky Sports.
 
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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 Five5]] did four seasons in syndication before TNT ponied up the ''caysh'' for a fifth season ''plus ALL those TV movies (including the [[Re Cut]] [[Pilot Movie]]''. It later made it to Sci Fi, which is the channel responsible for the first ''widescreen'' presentation (which eventually made it the format used on the DVD's.
* Oddly, ''[[BeakmansBeakman'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 (Animeanime)|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 ''[[DragonballDragon 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 (Animation)|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.
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987 (Animation)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (1987 version): went from syndication to CBS in 1990.
* 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.
* ''[[One Hundred and One101 Dalmatians (Disney)|101 Dalmatians: The Series]]'' had an interesting example: it was syndicated ''and'' shown on ABC's [[One Saturday Morning]] at the same time!
 
== Other... ==
 
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' from KTMA in Minneapolis (now WUCW) to [[Comedy Central]] to [[Sci Fi]] channel.
* ''[[Neighbours]]'' from the [[Seven Network]] (for one season) to [[Network Ten]]. In January 2011 it then switched from Ten to its secondary channel Eleven.
* Venezuelan [[Talent Show]] ''Cuanto Vale El Show'' began in Venezolana de Television as a segment of ''Fantastico'' a variety show, then it hopped to RCTV, a full program, and then it landed in Venevision. All the versions of the show were produced and host by its creator, Guillermo González; he eventually got tired and left showbusiness to fund his own network, just before Musical Realities like the ''X Got Talent'' series and the ''Idol'' series emerged in English-speaking countries.
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** 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 (Animeanime)|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.)
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* 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.
* ''[[Three Sheets]]'' started on HD channel MOJO HD before it closed. Fine Living Network picked it up for its fourth season, where it obtained [[Adored Byby the Network]] status until ''that'' channel was rebranded into Cooking Channel. The show then hopped to co-owned Travel Channel briefly, then to [[Spike TV]] before its run ended in 2011.
* [[Thank God You're Here]] in Australia moved from Channels Ten to Seven
* [[Rove]] (also Australian) moved after its first year from the [[Nine Network]] to [[Network Ten]].
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* ''[[Home Movies]]'' from UPN to [[Adult Swim]].
* ''Jail'' from My Network TV to Spike TV.
* ''[[Ka Blam!]]!'' moved from syndication in the Netherlands to their Nicktoons (the channel) branch, however subtitled now instead of dubbed.
* ''[[The Hitchhiker]]'' from HBO to USA.
* Like ''[[Angel (TV)|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]]'', ''[[Thirty30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'', ''[[JAG]]'', ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' and so on (basically any American series that doesn't have ''[[CSI (TV)|CSI]]'' in the title) - ''[[Charmed (TV)|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 One1]].
* 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 With David Letterman]]'' has run on four different channels - Sky One, [[Comedy Central|Paramount Comedy Channel]], [[ITV|ITV4]] and Diva TV - and never lasted longer than a year on any of them. (If you count [[The BBC|BBC2]] running the episodes for the week the show was in London - his only appearance on British terrestrial television to date - he's been on five.)
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* ''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 (TV)|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 Byby the Network|abuse by the execs at Fox]], as evidenced (and [[Jossed]]) by this veiled joke in Season Three:
{{quote| '''George Bluth, Sr.''': Well, I don't think the Home Builders Organization is going to be supporting us.<br />
'''Michael Bluth''': No, the [[Fun Withwith Acronyms|HBO]]'s not gonna want us. What do we do now?<br />
'''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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** All the [[Walt Disney]] catalog (movies, series, etc) went from Televisa (who was Disney's client for decades) to TV Azteca for unexplained reasons.
* [[TNA]] Wrestling moved from Bravo to Challenge because Bravo got shut down by their new owners.
* ''[[Digimon Xros Wars (Anime)|Digimon Xros Wars]]'' ended the ''[[Digimon (Franchise)|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 upcoming fifth series of ''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]'' was set to be the last after the show was cancelled by Citytv, but rival broadcaster CBC has since picked up the rights and has confirmed that a sixth series will be going into production to air later in 2012.
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* [[George Romero]]'s zombie films, due to his unwillingness to trim gore and violence from them. Latent Image, Laurel, Universal, etc.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'' started out being released by Walt Disney Pictures; Walden (the actual film company responsible for the films) has since jumped ship and the next installments will be under 20th Century Fox. (though since Walden lost the rights, it could even change the production company)
* ''[[Hellboy (Filmfilm)|Hellboy]]'' from [[Revolution Studios]] to [[Universal|Universal Pictures]]/RelativityMedia.
** Universal did it again, taking ''[[Kick -Ass (Filmfilm)|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 the rights were eventually bought by Mario Kassar, who ran Carolco Pictures, which later went bankrupt (destroying chances of [[James Cameron]]'s ''Terminator 3'' and ''[[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]]'') and had their film library bought by [[Studio Canal]]<ref>Universal owns 50%, and release T2 on video overseas</ref>, who [[Running Gag|sold the rights]] to C2 Pictures (also ran by Kassar and his partner Andrew G. Vajna) and Intermedia, and the possibility of any more Terminator sequels became the subject of a legal deadlock (thanks to a feud between Kassar and Vajna), eventually culminating in the rights going to The Halcyon Company. [[Overused Running Gag|Who sold the rights]] [[Creator Killer|after going bankrupt]].
** 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 13 th13th (Filmfilm)|Friday the 13 th]]'' from [[Paramount]] to New Line after the first 8 films. (allowing them to [[Crossover]] [[Freddy VSvs. Jason|with]] [[A Nightmare Onon Elm Street|their franchise]]])
* The ''[[Halloween (Filmfilm)|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 (Film)|Hellraiser]]'' from New World to Dimension.
* ''[[Death Wish (Film)|Death Wish]]'' from Paramount to Filmways to Cannon to Trimark. To go even further, MGM holds the remake rights and Columbia held foreign rights to the first two films.
* 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 (Filmfilm)|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 (Filmfilm)|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 (Filmfilm)|The Avengers]]'').
* The first ''[[Childs Play]]'' movie was made by [[United Artists]], who supposedly dropped it on "moral grounds." The other four movies have been produced by Universal or by Universal-owned companies (and indeed Universal is planning to remake the ''original'').
** Amazingly enough, [[United Artists]] picked up the third ''[[Film/House|House]]'' film, ''[[The Horror Show]]'', from New World and released it not long after ''Child's Play''. New Line ended up releasing the fourth one.
* 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 (Film)|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.
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== Rare TV-To-Film Examples ==
 
* ''[[Firefly (TV)|Firefly]]'' was produced by Twentieth Century Fox Television (oh, all right, ''and'' [[Joss Whedon|Mutant Enemy]]) but the big-screen film version, ''[[Serenity (Film)|Serenity]]'', was made by Universal.
* Orion - owners of Filmways, which made ''[[The Addams Family (TV)|The Addams Family]]'' - was having financial issues and elected to sell domestic rights to Paramount while [[Film/The Addams Family|the first film]] in order to cover some debt (they had a deal with Columbia for overseas distribution). After they filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Paramount picked up the sequel rights from Orion. And things don't stop there: Fox got the rights in the late nineties and did a sitcom out of them (with Warner distributing on video the pilot, ''Addams Family Reunion''), and now Universal is [http://www.deadline.com/2010/03/tim-burton-next-3d-animated-film-da-da-da-snap-snap-the-addams-family/ planning an animated flick with] [[Tim Burton]].
* 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 (Filmfilm)|the film]] came from [[Warner Bros]]
* ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series (TV)|Star Trek the Original Series]]'' was originally produced by [[Desilu Studios]] and aired on NBC. Desilu Studios was bought out by Paramount during the show's run, and with the CBS-Viacom split, Paramount's television division stayed on CBS's side. None of the spin-offs (other than ''[[Star Trek: theThe Animated Series (Animation)|Star Trek the Animated Series]]'') aired on NBC or an NBC-affiliated network. So after NBC canceled the series, it became a [[Cash Cow Franchise]] and not only has NBC not seen a dime of it, the money all goes to the people who own their rival. Call it [[Laser -Guided Karma]] if you want. (Ironically, CBS originally passed on ''Star Trek'' in favor of ''Lost in Space''.)
 
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== Online Examples ==
* Many of the contributors of ''[[That Guy With the Glasses (Website)|That Guy With theThe Glasses]]'', including [[Doug Walker|That Guy himself]], started out on [[YouTube]]. In That Guy's case, he was driven to create the site because [[YouTube]] started removing his videos due to copyright issues.
* ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' started out (very briefly) as a series of [[YouTube]] reviews before getting picked up as a proper series by the online "magazine" ''The Escapist''.
* Likewise ''[[Extra Credits (Web Video)|Extra Credits]]'', which then hopped ''again'' when ''The Escapist'' cut out the funding for the series, moving back to [[YouTube]] briefly before ending up on ''[[Penny Arcade]]'s'' PATV.
 
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