After in depth negotiations, South Park creators Trey Stone and Matt Parker have reached a brand new $1.5 billion deal over the the way forward for the beloved animated collection, together with the house of its streaming rights.
In line with The Los Angeles Occasions, Paramount+ has secured unique world streaming rights to South Park for the subsequent 5 years, bringing the present’s whole run to the platform for the primary time. Beforehand licensed to rival HBO Max, that deal expired this previous June. South Park will proceed to air on linear tv by way of Comedy Central.
As a part of the settlement, Stone and Parker additionally agreed to ship 10 new episodes of South Park per 12 months.
Earlier negotiations discovered Paramount providing HBO Max and dad or mum firm Warner Bros. Discovery the choice to co-license the present. That might have put South Park episodes on each Paramount+ and HBO Max. Nonetheless, after negotiations with Warner Bros. Discovery broke down over the weekend, Paramount determined to maneuver ahead alone. Paramount was significantly motivated to get the deal completed this week, because the twenty seventh season of South Park is about to debut tonight — Wednesday, July twenty third.
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The brand new season’s unique premiere date of July ninth had already been postponed as soon as because of behind-the-scenes turmoil tied to Paramount’s pending merger with Skydance. On the time, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone didn’t disguise their frustration with the scenario. “This merger is a shitshow and it’s fucking up South Park,” the creators shared on social media. “We’re on the studio engaged on new episodes and we hope the followers get to see them by some means.”
The Paramount-Skydance merger has additionally been cited as contributing an element within the current cancelation of the Late Present with Stephen Colbert, which is able to finish in Could 2026. Paramount additionally agreed to pay Donald Trump $16 million to settle a lawsuit over the modifying of an interview on 60 Minutes—a lawsuit that many authorized observers deemed baseless, however which the Trump Administration used as leverage to delay the transaction.