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The reason is that, once they've paid for them, licensees/networks in those countries have complete control over when they want to air the episodes, and they just happen to air them earlier than the original country's station does.
With the advent of file sharing networks and sites like Youtube, this often results in anxious viewers in the original country seeing episodes weeks or even months before they're ever aired. With the advent of global services like [[Netflix]], worldwide rollout of an entire season can happen in less than a week. Increasingly (and hopefully) this trope is becoming a thing of the past.
Compare [[No Export for You]], where foreign countries never see the work ''at all''.
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== General ==
* Happens a lot with US shows who are cancelled before airing all the
* Also ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' which like ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' and ''[[Wonderfalls]]'' was created by Bryan Fuller.
== [[Anime]] ==
* ''Teknoman'', the English-language adaptation of ''[[Tekkaman Blade]]'', had its entire run air in Australia before it premiered in the US (which only ended up screening about half the series).
** It was also a different dub that had the main character keep his original name, and is generaly seen to be closer to the original, and did not tell the entire backstory in the opening credits either. This is the version used for the DVD release.
* The anime ''[[Afro Samurai]]'', was, due to its themes, animated in English with American voice actors (by a Japanese studio); as such, it was picked up by Spike TV before its ''subtitled'' Japanese broadcast.
* The ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]] Capsule Monsters'' miniseries first aired on RTÉ Two in Ireland. US fans didn't even know about it until after the second episode had aired. Their run of ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' also overtook other countries (including the US) for a while back in 2000.
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* The movie to the second ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!]]!'' series was not aired in Japan until after it had already been released in the rest of the world for over a year.
* The dub of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' had this happen when the final 17 episodes of R were finally dubbed. Because of the show's success in Canada, there was no trouble getting YTV to air them, but for whatever reason, getting them into syndication in the United States took years. Meanwhile, they were still constantly rerunning the first 65 dubbed episodes that ended on a cliffhanger during the Black Moon Arc because of the missing end of that plotline.
* ''[[Samurai Pizza Cats]]'' is an interesting case. While a grand total of 52 episodes of the series were dubbed, Canada (which got the show first) had four dubbed episodes pulled from the package. When the show resurfaced many years later in America, these four episodes were included but twelve different episodes were missing instead. Nobody knows why any of these episodes were
* ''[[One Piece]]'' seems to be heading in this direction with the [[FUNimation]] Dub in Australia; the dub first premiered on American [[Cartoon Network]] taking off from where the 4Kids! dub ended, but was canceled after about six months, so we'll have to wait until the DVD releases get back there ''from the very beginning'' to get any further. However the entire ''season'', which had 28 more episodes, was already dubbed, so when Australia didn't cancel it at the same point they were airing a bunch of dubbed episodes there first.
* ''[[IGPX]]'' was aired in English in the United States on Toonami one day before before being aired in Japan due to it being co-produced by Toonami. Japan had the entire 2nd season air before the US saw its release though.
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* The 2011 film of ''[[Jane Eyre]]'' was a UK production, but its UK cinema release was 6 months after most countries, and it was already on DVD and Blu-ray by the time the UK saw it.
* ''[[Tintin (film)|The Adventures of Tintin]]'' was released in European countries in Fall 2011, and was one of the most popular movies of the year over there, but it didn't hit American theaters until December, and it bombed there. Probably due to the fact that while [[Tintin]] is one of the most successful and well-known franchises in Europe, [[Americans Hate Tingle|it's not widely read in America.]]
* A few of [[Jean
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* Something similar happened with season 3 of ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'' and Season 10 of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]''. The first half and the second half were separated in the US by a few months. The UK had them in one go. This resulted in the latter's show finale, "Unending" being shown in the UK about two months before the US.
* Episodes of the US soap ''[[The Young and The Restless]]'' air one day before in Canada before they do in the US.
* The 20th Anniversary TV Special of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', "The Five Doctors", aired on a collection of [[PBS]] affiliates in the US before it aired in the UK. This is because the BBC decided to delay the special to ''[[Children in Need]]'' night 1983 - November
* Seems to be a trend in recent seasons of ''[[Power Rangers]]'', with the UK airing the season finale before the US.
** A noted example is the ''[[Power Rangers SPD]]'' episode "Wormhole", the second part of the [[Crossover]] with ''[[Power Rangers Dino Thunder]]'' , which accidentally aired in Canada before the first part even aired in the US.
** Episodes 12 and 13 of ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' aired in France first before airing in the US.
* ''[[Farscape]]'' was co-produced by Australia's Channel Nine, but took a while to get here. At least they didn't all have accents.
* A number of second season episodes of ''[[LazyTown]]'' have never aired in the US, most of them airing first in the UK or Canada, though two aired first in Australia. This is presumably due to an attempted [[Screwed by the Network]] in the US, but the network forgetting that the show is neither under their control nor dependant on the American market (the next season was commissioned by [[The BBC]], and is currently in post-production), and it continues to be a success in the rest of the world. In a better example of this trope, it is consistently released in a number of English-speaking markets before it is dubbed for showing in Iceland, its ''actual'' country of production.
* It's crossed the pond the other way too. ''[[Red Dwarf]]'''s eighth season took eight weeks to air all eight episodes in the UK, but when it was shipped to the US for broadcast, most of the PBS affiliates who picked it up aired the whole thing in two nights.
* In the US, ''[[South of Nowhere]]'' had its Season 3B premiere pushed back from May to October 2008. However, it appears that France did not have the mid-season break that the US uses, meaning that the series (which was filmed between seasons) aired in its entirety there.
* ''[[Babylon 5]]'' aired in the US amid the then-usual reruns. In a variation, the UK did ''not'' show the reruns, and thus were always ahead. They finished every season several episodes before the US did, making this a partial example of
* The final three episodes of ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' aired in the UK before they did in the US, although apparently they aired (with English audio available) in Italy before either.
* In an odd inversion, recent seasons of ''[[Degrassi the Next Generation|Degrassi: The Next Generation]]'' have seen some episodes airing in the US before they air in Canada. So far, episodes 6-1 through 6-8, 7-1 through 7-12, and 8-2 through 8-7 have aired in the US first, as have three of the four specials (one of which has no set air date in Canada, oddly enough).
* ''[[Beyond The Break]]'' suffered this ''hard'' with season 3, which didn't even start in the US until June 2009 (at which point the entire season was aired in the span of three weeks, with new episodes premiering Mondays through Thursdays), over a year after they'd aired in Canada.
* Brazil aired ''[[Kamen Rider Dragon Knight]]'' beyond episode 15 where it was held in the US on a hiatus.
* Either some of the UK fans are messing with the US fans, or recent episodes of [[
* For some reason, ''[[Kingdom]]'' season 3 aired in Belgium ''six months'' before airing in the UK. Why? Why ''Belgium'' of all places? ''Nobody knows.''
* Season 6 of ''[[The Shield]]'' started airing in France (with no changes other than the opening credits being in French) right before it starting airing in the US, and the French run saw two new episodes shown each week, so France quickly jumped way ahead of the US. As you might expect, the French broadcasts proved to be very popular on torrent sites.
* The initial broadcasts of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' air in America ahead of the UK, but when the North American showing has a mid-season hiatus the UK showings catch up, as they air continue airing the episodes in one go.
* By 1985, both the [[CTV]] network and the Ottawa local affiliate that ''made the show'' had cancelled ''[[You Can't Do That on Television]]''; [[Nickelodeon]] paid the station to keep making new episodes as it was their breakout hit at the time. The middle seasons remained unseen in Canada until [[YTV]] was created in the late '80s.
* Series 2 of ''[[Law and Order UK]]'' aired in Canada almost a half year before the UK. The same has also happened in regards to Series 4.
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* The final eight episodes of ''[[Bear in the Big Blue House]]'' aired in a number of non-U.S. markets for around three years before finally being seen in the U.S. on Playhouse Disney in 2006.
* New episodes of ''[[Murdoch Mysteries]]'' air about a month earlier in the UK than in Canada.
* This has happened to three different Gerry Anderson series. Several episodes of ''[[Space: 1999]]'' made their debut in either the US or Australia before airing in the UK (though not in Italy, even though the series was partly financed by RAI) and a number of episodes of ''[[Terrahawks]]'' were shown in the US and/or Japan before their British screenings, but the champ in the Anderson canon is ''[[Space Precinct]]''
* Happened to ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]''. The third season was aired in the U.K. before being aired in its native Australia, and wasn't aired at all in the U.S.
** Eventually [[Teen Nick]] aired third-season episodes of ''[[H₂O: Just Add Water]]'' in 2012. But now, the entire series is available on [[Netflix]].
* The third season of ''[[Primeval]]'' aired one and sometimes even two episodes in advance in Spain compared to the UK.
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* Nicktoons ''in general'' have had this problem since around 2000:
** A ''[[Rugrats]]'' ep that was supposed to premiere in 2002 didn't air until 2004 (even stories that had been dependent on said episode [[Out of Order|aired before it]]).
** ''[[
** ''[[The Wild Thornberrys]]'' 's finale was delayed several months, allowing the UK to show it first.
** ''[[All Grown Up!]]'' began its regular runs in Canada and the UK before the US.
** Several ''[[Hey Arnold!]]'' stories aired in the UK long before their US airings.
** Several of ''[[The Fairly
** The second ([[Too Good to Last|and last]]) season of ''[[Invader Zim]]'' was aired in Latin America thanks to the efforts of Mundo Nick, Nick's South American subsidiary. The season was eventually aired in North America by Nicktoons TV, several years after the cancelation of the show.
** Like above, the 3rd season of ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]]'' premiered in Latin America (and Germany) a couple years before coming on Nicktoons Network. Thankfully, a fan had put up the episodes up in both Spanish and English after their premieres.
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* ''[[Transformers Animated]]'' suffered from various iterations of this during its second season. The U.S. and Canada broadcast used to be on the same day, but when the U.S. airing of the second episode of the second season was delayed a week (for the ''Ben 10: Alien Force'' premiere), Canada consistently remained one episode ahead for the remainder of the season.
** Although the second season did not reach UK screens until some months after its North American debut, when it did, a new episode was aired ''every weekday'', instead of just once a week. Consequently, the ninth, tenth and eleventh episodes of the season premiered on UK television, nearly one, two and three weeks before their Canadian airing respectively. However, the two-part season finale, "A Bridge Too Close", did ''not'' air in the UK until a month or two later, allowing Canada and America to air it first.
** Much more infuriatingly, the entire second half of the season, from episode seven onwards, premiered in ''Dubai''
* The second season of ''[[The Boondocks]]'' had two episodes criticizing [[BET]] pulled by [[Cartoon Network]] in the US, but aired by Canada's TeleToon without incident. Those two episodes ended up on the DVD.
* The first 7 episodes of ''[[Winx Club]]'' 's 3rd season premiered in the US before they aired in Italy. And that same season, the 4Kids dub of the last 7 eps aired on YTV in Canada a few months before America (thus alerting viewers, for example, to [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sVxBKXk9PI this filler scene] being cut).
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** Most English-speaking countries have yet to see the post-S3 movie (though [[Nickelodeon]]'s acquisition of the property may change this), even though one of its soundtrack songs was performed by Australian Natalie Imbruglia.
** And for the most bizarre example, the first country to get the 2nd movie in a regular run (after a premiere at the Rome film festival) is Russia... a country where the 1st film was apparently released direct to DVD.
* The second season of ''[[The Spectacular Spider-Man]]'' has been aired in Australia on March
** Canada and Bulgaria (of all places) also got it before the US.
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'' did this in a very tortoise-and-hare way. In France, the entirety of season 2 was played at a rate of one episode per week. In the US, it started playing shortly after it did in France, but then power-housed through half the season in three weeks, then stopped and let France catch up, and then started just showing random episodes whenever the hell it felt like it until finishing off with a mini-marathon and a season finale. It did manage to beat France to the punch, though. Later seasons weren't shown nearly as randomly though.
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* ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'''s episode "Wizard of Odd", aired it Australia first, despite that it was an American cartoon.
** It aired in Russia too.
** Also, the episode "The Secret to Success" was first aired in Latin America, The UK, and Russia.
** "We Call It Maze", "Ladies and Gentlemen, He is Max Modem", "Split Personality", and "Brain Drain" all aired in Latin America. The former also aired in Taiwan and Brazil.
* ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' had an up and down time with the last half of its second season, sometimes having a month long gap between episodes. It was hinted that this came about from Lucas changing some aspects of some episodes at the last second. The UK and Canada began airing some episodes several weeks before the US. During the end-run it became only a week's difference between UK and US. The US only managed to get the season finale aired a day before the UK by airing it as the second half of a two-part evening event.
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** USA gets even further ahead of Canada (although not as bad as Australia) by having the Aftermath episodes online exclusive.
* The ''[[Family Guy]]'' episode "Partial Terms of Endearment" was dropped from the US run (apparently because of its abortion-related storyline) and first aired in the UK. It eventually became a DVD exclusive episode in the US.
* The final 5 episodes of ''[[Sagwa the Chinese Siamese Cat]]'' aired in Asia on Disney Channel Asia a whopping 6 months before it aired in the US. The cause of this is unknown, PBS was for some reason holding the episode backs to premiere in the fall, and CBC was doing the same.
* Season 4 of the 2003 ''[[Strawberry Shortcake]]'' series aired in Europe a whole two months before it was aired in Asia. [[Screwed by the Network|It has never aired in the US and while it received direct-to-video releases in the region, four more episodes have yet to be released]].
* At least one season of ''[[X-Men: Evolution|X-Men Evolution]]'' managed to air in New Zealand on WNTV long before it was screened in the States, resulting in many fanvids with 'wntv' watermarks in the corner.
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