'South Park' Season 27 Premiere Delayed Two Weeks By Comedy Central
Creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone released an understandably angry response of a statement
If you were hoping to have a smooth night of premieres next Wednesday, July 9 with the first two episodes of the new season of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia on FXX before moving over to Comedy Central for the new season premieres of South Park and Digman! we have just been hit with a major disruption. The season 27 premiere of South Park has been delayed two weeks to July 23, and Jesus is the situation a mess.
Not only has there been the lawsuit over the show’s HBO Max streaming deal allegedly shorted by the Paramount+ specials, which has delayed the library’s arrival on the latter streamer (it was supposed to arrive yesterday), but Skydance’s looming acquisition of Paramount Global, not only owner of Comedy Central but South Park Digital Studios. The merger was explicitly stated to be a cause in a statement released by show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, a response to the delay announcement that reads “This merger is a shitshow and it’s fucking up South Park. We are at the studio working on new episodes and we hope the fans get to see them somehow.” The two-week delay means, as of writing, Digman! will have to spend the two weeks alone without such a major lead-in. But hey at least Jesus will seemingly be back.
'South Park' Is Back Dealing With Diddy, Wars With Canada Again In Gafish Season 27 Trailer
It’s actually turned out to be a great week for the mainstays of adult animation. First, Rick and Morty is the crux of Adult Swim’s April Fools’ prank, which they top off with announcing its eighth season premiere date, having not aired in 2024. Then on Wednesday,
South Park streaming rights, believed to be non-exclusive, have been shopped to other platforms, with Warner Bros. Discovery (for HBO Max) and Netflix making bids, according to a legal letter an attorney for Parker and Stone’s Park County sent recently to RedBird, Skydance and RedBird’s Jeff Shell, the man set to become Paramount Global President upon completion of the merger, over alleged interference in the deal negotiations. Parker and Stone threaten legal action over what the document claims included an attempt to get WBD to agree to a shorter, 5-year term and to take new seasons of South Park after they’ve had a 12-month exclusive window on Paramount+. The show is still exclusively streaming on Max domestically in the meantime. The move to Paramount+, whatever form it may take, is still expected by the season premiere date.
Parker and Stone are executive producers, along with Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II, while Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers on the show. Christopher Brion is the Creative Director of South Park Digital Studios.
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For an eight-episode season, there’s some high concentration of crossover coming to the seventeenth season of FXX’s It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, premiering with two episodes on July 9 at 9 PM Eastern and Pacific. Not only do we get the gang’s perspective on January’s crossover with
Source: Deadline