Current example: Rick and Morty. With that, I noticed how that doesn´t make sense to me. I get why a show might have to be translated and dubbed first in the case of countries with other languages, but why does the UK have a later release date for US-produced shows and movies than the US? It doesn´t even build up hype or anything, if anything it just encourages piracy. Once Rick and Morty is available in my country, I will probably have seen it already. So why do producers not try to go for a global release?
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Rick and Morty is an American show, on an American TV channel, made by an American company. If they want to air the show in other countries, there are a number of arrangements that need to be made. They need to find a foreign distributor, a foreign channel to air it on, they need to deal with a foreign government and its set of rules, etc. Maybe the foreign channel Rick and Morty airs on has its own content it wants to prioritize, or maybe it turns out the foreign government has a slower content rating system than the US. There are a million different reasons it might come out at a different time, simply because there isn’t one monolithic system for releasing media worldwide simultaneously.
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