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If you checkout https://flixsearch.io/ you can see the number of shows by country. Germany has 1808 and USA has 5750 shows available. I'm in Australia and there's the extremely ridiculous situation where a Netflix created show "Better Call Saul" isn't available to Australian Netflix users because Netflix sold the show's rights to a local competitor before they had a presence in Australia.

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Acoording to Wikipedia, Better Call Saul is produced by Sony for AMC, not Netflix:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Call_Saul#Development_h...

> Netflix was one of many interested distributors, but ultimately a deal was made between AMC and Breaking Bad production company Sony Pictures Television.

A better example would be maybe House of Cards. In many countries new episodes are only available with a delay. For example, in Germany they are put online six months after the US start, because they sold the rights to Sky.

Interesting, I'm pretty sure it has the little "Netflix" logo for being a Netflix Original series on Netflix Germany.

Follow up: Yes it has.

Probably because they are the original publisher in germany. I've seen that for a few series.

> where a Netflix created show "Better Call Saul" isn't available to Australian Netflix users because Netflix sold the show's rights to a local competitor before they had a presence in Australia.

Netflix had nothing to do with creating Better Call Saul, and Netflix definitely was aware of it's plans to expand to Australia during the same timeframe as Better Call Saul being developed and sold to Stan.

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