{"id":32861,"date":"2025-07-02T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32861\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T15:04:11","slug":"south-park-season-27-premiere-date-pushed-series-creators-react","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/32861\/","title":{"rendered":"‘South Park’ Season 27 Premiere Date Pushed; Series Creators React"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tUPDATED with Trey Parker<\/a> and Matt Stone<\/a>\u2018s statement<\/strong>: South Park<\/a> fans who have waited for more than two years to get a new season of the hit animated comedy, will have to wait a little bit longer \u2014 the Season 27 premiere on Comedy Central<\/a>, originally slated for July 9<\/a>, is being moved to July 23. The network has released a new poster for the upcoming season, touting the return of Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and other popular characters, including Jesus.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe delay comes amid tension \u2014 including a legal threat \u2014 over South Park\u2018s lucrative streaming rights as the series was caught in the uncertainty over Skydance\u2019s pending acquisition of Comedy Central parent Paramount Global, which co-owns the joint venture behind South Park, South Park Digital Studios, with series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone who run it. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement after South Park\u2019s new return was announced, Parker and Stone slammed the move.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThis merger is a sh*tshow and it\u2019s f*cking with up South Park,\u201d they wrote on X<\/a>. \u201cWe are at the studio working on new episodes and we hope the fans get to see them somehow.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe show\u2019s $500 million exclusive streaming licensing deal with HBO Max expired a week ago<\/a> but has not been replaced by a new exclusive one \u2014 or multiple non-exclusive ones.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latter has emerged as the likely scenario. Paramount Global had long stated that they want the show on the company\u2019s streaming platform Paramount+<\/a>. In May, Paramount Global co-CEO Chris McCarthy told investors on the company\u2019s earnings call that \u201cstarting this July, [South Park] will be coming to Paramount+ in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAt the same time, South Park streaming rights \u2014 believed to be non-exclusive \u2014 have been shopped to other platforms, with HBO Max parent Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix making bids, according to a legal letter an attorney for Parker and Stone\u2019s Park County sent recently to RedBird, Skydance and RedBird\u2019s Jeff Shell \u2014 who is poised to become Paramount Global President upon completion of its proposed acquisition by Skydance \u2014 over alleged interference in the deal negotiations. THR reported on the letter, in which 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\u2019ve had a 12-month exclusive window on Paramount+.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhile the matter is being resolved, the existing 26 episodes of South Park continue to be available on Max<\/a> as part of an extension during deal renewal negotiations. The show did not launch on Paramount+ July 1 as many anticipated, with no advisory on the status by the streamer, creating confusion among fans. Paramount+, which carries a handful of South Park specials made exclusively for the platform that became the subject of a lawsuit by WBD, is still expected to start streaming the show in time for the new season.<\/p>\n

\n\tCo-creators Parker and Stone are executive producers, along with Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers. Christopher Brion is the Creative Director of South Park Digital Studios. <\/p>\n

\n\tHere is a teaser for Season 27, which was released at the time of the original premiere date announcement.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UPDATED with Trey Parker and Matt Stone\u2018s statement: South Park fans who have waited for more than two…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":32862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[27588,171,27589,15329,27590,27591,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-32861","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-comedy-central","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-matt-stone","11":"tag-paramount","12":"tag-south-park","13":"tag-trey-parker","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114784257039698213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}