Trey Parker and Carpet stone predicts a downward spiral for ”South Park“In the midst of the proposed merger between Comedy Central Parent Paramount Global and Skydance Media.” The South Park “members took to X to slap delays for their season 27 premiere and link the date change to the network negotiations.
“This merger is a shitshow and is fucking up” South Park “, wrote the duo.” We are in the studio and work with new episodes and we hope the fans will see them in some way. “
Season 27 would debut on July 9 at Comedy Central; It was announced today, July 2, that the season will premiere July 23.
Comedy Central Crown Jewel “South Park” has been at the center of a threatened trial between Parker and Stone’s Park County and Paramount. Parker and Stone collaborate Joint Venture South Park Digital studios with paramount; The company owns the current rights to the animated series. The exclusive streaming license for exclusive $ 500 million with HBO Max, which in 2019, recently expired at the end of June 2025. Paramount is pushing for the series to belong to Paramount+ streaming platform. Yet the “South Park” streaming rights are non-exclusive, and Parker and Stone claim that the expected Paramount Global President Jeff Shell (after Skydance merger) is Disturbing business.
There are two years left at Paramount’s total business of $ 900 million with Park County. Thr Previously, Park County has threatened legal action against Redbird Capital Executive Shell and claims that he “leads Netflix and Warner Bros. Discovery to change certain conditions for their offers in a” manner calculated to benefit Paramount at the company’s expense “,” which Thr quoted from a law letter.
Shell asked that HBO Max Max parent company WBD would give Paramount+ an exclusive 12 -month window for new “South Park” sections, including changes to a streaming offer.
“We hereby demand that you, Redbird and Skydance immediately cease your involvement,” says the Park County letter. “If these activities continue, we will have no choice but to act to both protect our rights and fulfill all the obligations we can have for the public.”
Parker told me earlier Vanity 2024 that “South Park” was waiting for Paramount to Figure all their shit out“In the middle of the election.
