History Main / ShortRuninPeru

** The Japanese release of ''Days of Ruin'' was delayed several times before being cancelled: so this Japanese-developed game never got released in its own country.

* The second season of ''ComicStrip/TheBoondocks'' had two episodes criticizing {{BET}} pulled by Creator/CartoonNetwork in the US, but aired by Canada's [=TeleToon=] without incident. Those two episodes ended up on the DVD.

* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is a minor case of this trope for the english dub. Granted, while the series is readily available to watch on DVD, and has been since the beginning, the dub has not aired at all on television in it's country of origin, while Madman Entertainment has taken up to airing it in Australia, on ABC3 [[hottip:!:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids A children's station, nonetheless]].

* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfTintin'' 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 theatres until December, and it bombed there[[hottip:*: Granted December is a very tough time in America for any film that isn't either Christmasy, a planned late-year blockbuster, or OscarBait]]. Probably due to the fact that while {{Tintin}} is one of the most successful and well-known franchises in Europe, it's hardly known in America aside from hardcore fans (and children who watched the animated version on Nickelodeon).

* Series 2 of ''LawAndOrderUK'' aired in Canada almost a half year before the UK. The same has also happened in regards to Series 4.

* The initial broadcasts of ''Series/{{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.

* Brazil aired ''KamenRiderDragonKnight'' beyond episode 15 where it was held in the US on a hiatus.

*** It happened again with the first three episodes of Season 3 being leaked early, and now Internet Streaming sites are leaking Predacons Rising a full three weeks before it's supposed to air on TV. How the latter was accomplished is unknown at time of writing.

* The American indie horror film ''Film/AllTheBoysLoveMandyLane'' was released in Britain in 2008... and has not been released ''at all'' in America. Worse, due to the rights to the film's American distribution existing in [[ScrewedByTheLawyers a legal limbo]], it remains doubtful if the film will ''ever'' [[DevelopmentHell see the light of day in its home country]].

* In an odd inversion, recent seasons of ''Series/DegrassiTheNextGeneration'' 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).

** This is partly to do with its production being headed by [[FourKidsEntertainmant 4Kids]], rather than TV Tokyo. It originally wasn't going to even ''get'' a Japanese release.

* ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'' is the TropeNamer for this, in story. Marenghi, the fictitious "creator" of the ShowWithinAShow mentions that, although the show was never broadcast in its native land of Britain when first produced in TheEighties, it did have "a short run in Peru".

* Seemingly by serendipity, ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'' is the TropeNamer for this, in story. Marenghi, the fictitious "creator" of the show, mentions that, although the show was never broadcast in its native land of Britain when first produced in TheEighties, it did have "a short run in Peru".

* ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is a minor case of this trope for the english dub. Granted, while the series is readily available to watch on DVD, and has been since the beginning, the dub has not aired at all on television in it's country of origin, while Madman Entertainment has taken up to airing it in Australia, on ABC3 [[hottip:!:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids A children's station, nonetheless]].

* ''PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' is a minor case of this trope for the english dub. Granted, while the series is readily available to watch on DVD, and has been since the beginning, the dub has not aired at all on television in it's country of origin, while Madman Entertainment has taken up to airing it in Australia, on ABC3 [[hottip:!:[[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids A children's station, nonetheless]].]].

** The second ([[TooGoodToLast and last]]) season of ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' 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 cancellation of the show (and several years after the show proved to be a hit on DVD).

** Several of the later episodes of ''{{Monsuno}}'' season 1 were shown in Canada first, and Japan was a few episodes ahead when season 2 debuted in America.

* ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' was co-produced by Australia's Channel Nine, but took a while to get here. At least they didn't all have accents.

Compare NoExportForYou, where foreign countries never see the work ''at all''.

* The first ''VideoGame/RockBand'' game was released in America in late 2007, but didn't see a European release until ''nearly a year later''.

** This has since changed though as TeenNick added episodes of ''H2O'' from the third season to its broadcast rotation of the show in January 2012, when the network brought back the series from a short sabbatical from the network (additional episodes of the second season that were also unseen in the U.S., due to Nickelodeon pulling the program halfway through airing the second season in 2008, were also added to TeenNick airings of the show).