The TV series was probably an Argentine series called Lalola. It's been remade by 12 other countries: 3 different Spanish versions (from Chile, Peru and Spain), Portuguese (that was Ele é Ela as already referred to in this thread), Russian, Belgian (Flemish), Greek, Turkish, Indian, Filipino (Tagalog), Vietnamese and Indonesian.
Some of these have run over 200 episodes and most of the rest over 100. Even though they all have the same starting premise, a lot of them go in very different directions by the end. As of yet, even though it's been made 13 times so far, believe it or not, there's still yet to be an English language version (possibly the closest is a Fox pilot called Eva Adams that never got picked up).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lalola
There's also a Thai series called Pimmala which seems like they sat down with an IP lawyer and changed just enough of the concept to avoid having to licence the original from Argentina.
Finally, there's the Indian movie "Mr Ya Miss" which is blatantly copied from Switch even if they didn't credit it except they changed the ending to arguably better one that made more sense in a real world setting (and taught the protagonist a lesson without such drastic consequences) so credit for that I guess.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od5fW_fWMw8
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