Comedy Central has announced that Season 27 of South Park has been delayed for two weeks and will now be announced on July 23, 2025. It's not that long than delay, since viewers didn't get any new episode of South Park in 2023 (it didn't count the only "special" episode that fell in 2024). However, the delay is bad news, if not as bad as Kenny dies absurd number times. Now, however, the situation was won by Disi, with the official South Park Account for social media Having the shared statement A, very "South Park" by creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
"This merger is like a *** show and is South Park. We are in the studio we are working on new episodes and we hope that the fans will see them somehow, "the statement said.
Specifically, Parker and Stone's statement refers to the proposed merger between the parent company Comedy Central Paramount Global and Skydance Media, which was inserted last year, but has yet to be closed. Now, Parker and Stone's response is absolutely ruled. This is a very reaction to South Park, a bridge, no nonsense, a filter-comment that we rarely see from the creators. (For a very tonal different shot in directors, watch The answer from "The Tiny Chef Show" creators on their series give up.)
But there is much more here than just Parker and Stone to be crazy at Comedy Central, because this statement is just the last chapter in a long struggle between the duo and Paramount. Let's go back to the start. It started in 2007 with the establishment of the digital study "South Park", a partnership between Paramount (owned by Comedy Central) and Parker and Stone. The plan was for the studio to deal with the show's streaming rights (a new concept at the time), with none of the stakeholders controlling it.
Why Parker and Stone are angry at Paramount
However, by 2019, things have changed drastically in the industry. Streaming was not just something, dominated by Hollywood, and every studio wanted a piece of that big pie with money. Since there was no streaming platform at the time, she saw the opportunity to make a lot of money and sell HBO MAX streaming rights, making each episode of the show available to appear on that platform (including new episodes). Except, by 2021
Yes, Parker and Stone were technically double dipped in the production of "exclusive" new South Park projects and for HBO Max and Paramount+. This is essentially what All of their special "streaming wars" behavedAnd it is specifically spectacular. However, HBO Max was not satisfied with what he considered a breach of the deal and sued Paramont of streaming on what the company considered new episodes on its own platform.
But that HBO Max streaming agreement was set to expire now, in 2025, which means "South Park" would only run on Paramount+ After that. Just if it were so easy. Instead, that streaming agreement was not renewed or replaced by an alternative, and the study "Parker and Stone" South Park bought the rights of other companies. Except, according to the documents revealed by Hollywood reporterParker and Stone are also threatening to sue Paramount for allegedly interfering with the new streaming deal on the show.
Specifically, Parker and Stone blame the Effef Shell, who is due to become president of the Paramount Global after expecting the studio's merger with Skydance, trying to prioritize Paramount+ and cut terms with other study in the new streaming agreement.
In short, Parker and Stone express their anger because of what they consider to be corporate shenanigans drastically changing the way they do "South Park" (recent seasons were shorter because they also make "special"), when the episodes of the show are published and which can even be released.
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