EXCLUSIVE: Comedy Central has chosen a curious meeting for the first of season 27 of the Faithful Animated Southern park After a two -year break on July 9. It is only a few days after the exclusive paramount streaming license agreement of $ 500 million with HBO Max for Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s mastodon should expire on June 30, granting the new season, as well as the rest of the others Southern park Library, to broadcast on Paramount Sibling Paramount + from Comedy Central.
When the date was announced last month, industry observers suspected a certain game since Paramount has long been looking to bring two of its crown jewels on third -party banners, Southern park And Yellowstoneto its paramount + platform and in the light of the controversial partnership of Paramount and HBO Max on South Park, Which led to a trial.
The CO-PDG of Paramount Global Chris McCarthy, which oversees Comedy Central and Streaming, praised the addition of branding brand during the company’s winning call last week.
“And from July, [South Park] Will come to Paramount + to the United States, “he said.
But, in a story that has already had a lot of twists and turns, there can be another. While Southern park will finally be streaming on Paramount +, the series will not necessarily leave HBO Max.
I hear there are conversations on the maintenance Southern park On the Streamer of Discovery Warner Bros. Sources point out that the talks are preliminary and were part of Paramount who put the series on the market.
It is a common practice for major programs created under the traditional television model in order to avoid the accusations of self -furele – and disputes – by participants for profit which, in this case, include Southern park Executive creators / producers Parker and Stone.
According to sources, it is certain that Southern park will be on Paramount + from July 1, but it is not certain that the streamer has it exclusively. Sharing the series on a non-exclusive basis with another platform, like HBO Max, is a real possibility, I hear.
The representatives of Paramount and WBD refused comments.
This is part of Mo Paramount de Mo for practically all of his series of libraries – and many of his originals, with the exception of Taylor Sherdan’s dramas – bringing a source of income to the company which has focused on improving its results.
Then Warnermedia, belonging to AT&T Southern park In an agreement of $ 300 million signed in 2019, before the launch of Paramount +. After the Streamer of Paramount has been operational, Southern park I started to make specialties apart from the HBO Max agreement exclusively for Paramount +, triggering the 2023 trial by the current HBO Max parent against Paramount. He is still waiting.
Southern park revolves around four boys, Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny. Season 26, which presented six episodes, was presented on Comedy Central in February 2023 and took place in March. There were three special offers, written and made by Parker, who made their debut between October 2023 and March 2024.
Parker and Trey signed an agreement with Comedy Central in 2021, apparently for around $ 900 million, to extend Southern park Throughout season 30, passing until 2027.
