Trey Parker and Matt Stone issued a hard statement through the program’s networks and confirmed the delay of the premiere of a new season.
Central Comedy has delayed season 27 of South Park in the middle of a transmission rights dispute between creators and Global Paramountthe parent company of the channel. Trey Parker and Matt Stone They let their anger know through social networks.
In response to Comedy Central’s press release about the change of release date of South Park, Trey Parker and Matt Stone said: “This fusion is a disaster and is ruining South Park. We are in the study working on new episodes and we hope that fans can see them in some way”read in a tweet published in the official South Park profile in X.
South Park season is expected to be released on Wednesday, July 23, which is a two -week delay in programming. The merger to which they refer, which will combine the Skydance study by David Ellison and Global Paramount, is scheduled for July 6.
The conflict over South Park emissions
Parker and Stone (through their lawyer) threatened to take legal actions against Paramount, accusing the incoming president of the company, Jeff Shell, to interfere with the negotiations of his contract with Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix. Shell will assume the presidency of Skydance-Paramount once the agreement has been closed.
Paramount currently has two years left Agreement of 900 million dollars for the digital rights of South Park; South Park is broadcast on Paramount+, and Parker and Stone believe that Shell is willing to reject WBD and Netflix offers to keep it that way.
In the June 21 Charter obtained by the THR portal, Park County, the entertainment company led by Parker and Stone, threatened to take legal actions against Shell for their alleged interference in negotiations with potential perficitors, including the request to modify certain terms of their offers in a way “Calculated to benefit Paramount at the expense” of Park County. The letter indicated that Shell urged WBD to grant Paramount+ an exclusivity period of 12 months for the new episodes of the series and to shorten the duration of the agreement of 10 to five years, which could harm the bids by the series.
Parker and Stone are 50-50 partners of Paramount in the joint company South Park Digital Studios, which is referred to in the letter as SPDS.
“Therefore, we demand that you, Redbird and Skydance immediately cease your interference,” says the letter. “If these activities continue, we will have no choice but to act to protect our rights and fulfill any obligation we have with the public.”
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