One of the problems with US TV shows in the UK is when a franchise has multiple series... all too often, these will be sold off to different broadcasters outside of the US.
For example, Netflix has almost every Star Trek series; the new one, Picard, is on Amazon Prime.
Also; The Walking Dead is on one channel, Fear the Walking Dead on another, and the third series (oh, I can't remember what it's called...) is on a third.
Recently there was also a scenario where five of the DC TV shows had a crossover event; one of them isn't even shown in the UK so viewers here had no legal way to see one of the episodes. Which I imagine was quite confusing.
The thing is, though, there's no way to stop this as the US TV companies will rightly sell the rights to show their shows to the highest bidder; if a new series in a franchise is created it's the same situation. If Netflix doesn't want to spend as much money as Amazon on Picard... well, that's where it goes.
There's no way to get around that.
Hmm...
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