# Non-American TV shows online?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-tv-shows-online/426103>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [November 12, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-tv-shows-online/426103 "2007-11-12T06:35:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 6:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-tv-shows-online/426103/1 "2007-11-12T06:35:31Z")

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All of the American over-the-air broadcast television networks have their own websites. And they web-broadcast some of their current shows online. I was thinking this would make it possible for people in other countries to watch American TV shows before they were broadcast in their own country. And then I had the revelation - I could theoretically reverse the process.

So are there any television networks in the UK or Australia or Canada or elsewhere that do web broadcasts of current television series?

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**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2007, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-tv-shows-online/426103/2 "2007-11-12T06:37:06Z")

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Many of them, including the US ones, block IPs outside their own region.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2007, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/non-american-tv-shows-online/426103/3 "2007-11-13T05:48:57Z")

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I’m not very computer-savvy. I realized it was possible to identify individual online accounts by IP numbers but I didn’t know there were geographic identifiers in those numbers.

So, there are no “region-free” television sites?