South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are fairly busy proper now. The twenty seventh season of their present debuts on Comedy Central on Wednesday, they’re returning to Comedian-Con Worldwide: San Diego for the first in virtually a decade this weekend, and they’re additionally negotiating the place the dwelling of South Park on streaming might be after a 5-yr $500m US streaming take care of HBO Max simply ended, whereas additionally understanding their take care of Comedy Central for new episodes of South Park is ending in 2027.
They may have solved a type of issues, nevertheless. Or maybe discovered a brand new one.
Comedy Central father or mother company Paramount has agreed to a $1.5 billion contract that offers it international streaming rights to South Park from now till 2030. In accordance to the Los Angeles Times’ Meg James who broke this story, it really works out to $300m per yr.
This is able to deliver all of South Park episodes each new and outdated beneath the identical roof for the first time. Up till now, South Park hasn’t streamed on Comedy Central’s sister company Paramount+, as the final time streaming rights have been accessible – in 2019 – Paramount+ hadn’t been launched but. In accordance to LA Occasions nevertheless, this wasn’t a finished deal as Paramount+ did provide to cut up the South Park streaming rights with HBO Max, who had been its unique US streaming dwelling from 2019 to now, nevertheless talked reportedly “collapsed” on Monday.
This $1.5 billion deal does have its perks for Paramount, because it is a co-proprietor in South Park Studios. In accordance to the LA Occasions, Paramount will “ultimately recoup about half” of the streaming rights charge South Park would earn – with them, or with one other streamer. Earlier this yr, Deadline reported that these streaming rights have been being shopped round to not solely Paramount and HBO Max, but in addition Netflix – and that South Park creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone have been threatening to take authorized motion over what it believed have been unlawful negotiations that have been too self-serving to Paramount.
It is not clear what Stone and Parker’s opinions of this South Park streaming deal are… but.
This comes as Paramount is a part of a messy merger with Skydance that South Park creators Stone and Parker have called “a shit show” and something that was actively “fucking” up work on the new season.
Here is how to watch the South Park TV collection, motion pictures, and specials in order.