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{{trope}}
Two
Typically, the older
Shows that spread to even more countries become [[Multi National Shows]].
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* ''Alien'' (US) / ''Marco Polo'' (Norway): A space ship crew comes across an alien planet, and pick up an alien stowaway who begins killing them. The main difference is that, in the Norwegian miniseries, the alien turned out to be sympathetic. The series was actually aired ''before'' Alien▼
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* ''[[Kenny vs. Spenny]]'' (Canada)/''Ed vs. Spencer'' (UK)/''Elton vs. Simon'' (Germany)/''Frank Vs. Girard'' (Quebec): Two friends compete in bizarre competitions; the loser suffers a humiliation.
* ''[[Man About the House]]'' (UK)/ ''[[Three's Company]]'' (US): Buffoon fakes homosexuality to room with two women.
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* ''[[Keep It In The Family]]'' (UK) / ''[[Too Close for Comfort]]'' (US)
* ''[[Mind Your Language]]'' (UK) / ''[[What A Country]]'' (US)
* ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]
** Later series of the UK version were filmed in the US- if anything, it was probably just a change of host rather than a remake
* ''[[Life On Mars]]'' (UK) / ''[[Life On Mars]]'' (US) / [[Present Day|Present-day]] police detective is transported to [[The Seventies|1973]].
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* ''[[Coupling]]'' (UK) / ''Coupling'' (US): Six friends are involved in ever-shifting (apart from the two leads) sexual relationships.
** There was also a Greek ''Coupling''. According to [[Steven Moffat]] "It lasted longer than the American version, so shut up."
▲* ''Alien'' (US) / ''Marco Polo'' (Norway): A space ship crew comes across an alien planet, and pick up an alien stowaway who begins killing them. The main difference is that, in the Norwegian miniseries, the alien turned out to be sympathetic. The series was actually aired ''before'' Alien
* ''[[Everybody Loves Raymond]]'' (US) / ''Everybody Loves Kostya'' (Russia) : Creator Phil Rosenthal mas a [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xhp6ei_exporting-raymond-official-trailer-in-theaters-april-29th_shortfilms comedic documentary], ''[[Exporting Raymond]]'' about the process.
* ''[[Law and Order]]'' (US) / ''[[Law and Order UK]]'' (UK): Cops and lawyers.
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* ''[[Episodes (TV series)|Episodes]]'' is a series centered around the very concept.
* ''WΔZ'' (UK)/''Scar 3D'' (US)
* Transcontinental variant: ''[[Mister Rogers'
* ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' (US) / ''[[Misfits]]'' (UK): [[Sci Fi]] series about ordinary people who discover they have superpowers
* ''[[Jersey Shore]]'' (US) / ''Geordie Shore'' (UK) / ''The GC'' (NZ/AU)
* [[The BBC]] (UK) / [[PBS]] (US)
== Radio ==
* [[The BBC]] (UK) / [[NPR]] (US)
== Music ==
=== Artists ===
* [[The Beatles]] (UK) / [[The Monkees]] or [[The Beach Boys]] (US)
* Lily Allen (UK) / [[Katy Perry]] (US)
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* [[Big Star (band)|Big Star]] (US) / [[Badfinger]] (UK)
=== Genres ===
* [[New Wave]] of British Heavy Metal (UK) / [[Hair Metal]] (US)
* [[Motown]] (US) / [[Northern Soul]] (UK)
* [[Grunge]] (US) / [[Britpop]] (UK)
▲== Other ==
== Politics ==
* [[Margaret Thatcher]] (UK) / [[Ronald Reagan]] (US): [[The Eighties|1980s]] New Right leaders
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== Technology ==
* [[Commodore 64]], [[Apple II]], or [[Atari 8 Bit Computers]] (US) / [[ZX Spectrum]] or [[BBC Micro]] (UK): 8-bit home computers. (The C64 was still pretty popular across [[The Pond]], though.)
* Commodore [[Amiga]] or [[Atari ST]] (US) / [[Acorn Archimedes]] (UK): 16-bit home computers. (The US computers were [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff|much more successful]] on the other side of [[The Pond]], however.)
== Education ==
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