Banners outside the United States can no longer access Southern park On Paramount +.
The sources have confirmed The Hollywood Reporter This license from Paramount + to broadcast the series internationally expired, noting that the streaming platform is in continuous negotiations and hopes that the series will soon safeguard for all subscribers. International fans of the long -standing animated series can still broadcast Southern park Special on Paramount + and watch the program on Comedy Central, however.
The news of the expired international license occurs just a few days after announced that the first in season 27 of Southern park was postponed by two weeks until July 23 from its original date of July 9 in the middle of a battle for streaming rights between the creators of the program Trey Parker and Matt Stone and the parent company of Comedy Central, Paramount Global.
A tweet published on Southern parkThe official profile x of July 2 after the announcement of July 2 Southern park Trey Parker & Matt Stone said – “This fusion is shit and it’s fucking Southern park. We are at the studio working on new episodes and we hope that fans will be able to see them in one way or another. “”
As indicated for the first time by The Hollywood Reporter Last month, Parker and Stone threatened legal action against Paramount, accusing the new president Jeff Shell of interference with their contractual negotiations with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) and Netflix. Shell, currently president of Sports and Media at Redbird Capital Partners, should take the reins once the merger between Skydance and Paramount Global of David Ellison is over. The agreement, initially concluded on July 6, is currently awaiting the approval of the Federal Communications Commission to transfer the dissemination licenses from Paramount to Skydance. On Monday, representatives of the international fraternity of teamsters and its local Hollywood 399 section and the Center for American Rights met the FCC to discuss concessions and highlight their “commitment to explain and applaud a final license that protects the interests of workers, consumers and investors”.
Paramount has currently two years on its $ 900 million agreement for digital rights for Southern park. In the letter of June 21 written by a lawyer from Parker and Stone’s Entertainment Company County, Shell would have asked potential tenderers to modify certain terms of their offers in a “calculated for the benefit of Paramount at the expense” of the company, specifically pointing to new episodes of the program and the shortening of the term of the agreement of the agreement.
“We demand by the present that you, Redbird and Skydance immediately stop your interference,” said the letter. “If these activities continue, we will have no choice but to act both to protect our rights and pay for all the obligations that we could have towards the public.”
In response, a Skydance spokesperson published a statement that said: “In the words of the transaction agreement, Skydance has the right to approve material contracts.”
Southern park made his debut on Comedy Central on August 13, 1997. The final episode of season 26 “Spring Break” was broadcast on March 29, 2023, with three specials after October 2023 and May 2024.
