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* ''[[The Listener]]'' used to air on CTV and NBC, like ''[[Flashpoint]]'' and CBS. It's still going on, but only in Canada. NBC killed it to put on ''[[Law and Order]]'' reruns. Further, ''[[Flashpoint]]'' has been banished to ION, whatever that is.

** ION effectively is the [[Infomercial]]s Own Network... a rebrand of Lowell “Bud” Paxson's PAX network. There are four major US terrestrial commercial networks. ION ranks, at best, seventh. It tends to own outlying UHF stations near major markets and stuff half a dozen digital subchannels onto each station. At least half of these subchannels will be QVC, Home Shopping Network or similar filler - or they'll be infomercials, religious propaganda or brokered programming. ION claims to present shows “free of explicit sex, senseless violence and foul language.” It's also "free" as in [[No Budget]]. Or maybe ION is one electron short of an atom? In any case, Flashpoint [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/flashpoint-cancelled-ion_n_1468488 only lasted two seasons] in ION oblivion before going off the air completely in the US.

* The original, Argentine version of ''[[Los Simuladores]]'' had very little distribution in Latin America (let alone the rest of the world). Instead, remakes were made.

* ''[[Spaced]]'' (the first teaming of [[Simon Pegg]] and [[Edgar Wright]]) was like this for many years in the US until 2009, when the series went straight-to-DVD.