When I was in New York recently, I saw some street adds for new episodes of (US) tv shows that had been shown in australia but canceled after only one season. This, obviously, will not be a big surprise. A show might be popular in one country but not in others.
It did get me wondering though about the reverse, shows that would be cancel after one full season or less in the US being continued in another country. Now there has been a number of remakes made over the years but the closest thing I can think to what I'm talking about is the canadian show Forever Knight which was based on a failed pilot called Nick Knight (failed as in not picked up, it was actually shown on tv). The first season had the same actor playing the main character's sidekick and the location was not overtly mentioned leaving the door open to the show taking place in the US. Only in the second season did it become clear that the show took place in Toronto and so was not a continuation of the pilot (which took place in LA).
Often the absence of just a situation is more then likely a question of money: too expensive to produce for the return expected from local market. But assuming there is just enough tax insentive for a purely local production and distribution with perhaps a small but lucrative foreign market demands,
Paying cast and crew to relocate would be expensive so co-production might have a better chances since, one assume, the technical staff and some of the actors would be more easily retained. For example, Stargate Atlantis was filmed in Canada and out of the 10 actors that were series regulars, only 3 were americans, the rest being canadians. So basicaly you could have killed off sheppard and ronon, find some other pretty boys, send Woolsey on a permanent diplomatic mission and make it a purely "canadian production" to be sold localy and oversea while receiving government subsidies for local productions (from a legal standpoint, it's the worker's citizenship that count, not where the idea came from).
So can anyone think of shows, whether from the US or some other countries that were litteraly continued in such a way that season 2 of a series is a foreign affair ? Otherwise, what shows would have had a good chance of having being picked up oversea ?