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South Park fans with Max subscription don’t have to spend the day binging their favorite show before it disappears from the platform. While today, June 23, is the last day under Paramount’s $500 million exclusive licensing deal for the hit animated series with the Warner Bros. Discovery streamer, South Park will remain on the platform for the time being, Deadline has learned.

It is because, as Deadline reported exclusively last month, WBD has been in talks with Paramount about keeping Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s animated hit on Max — likely on a non-exclusive basis. As these conversations continue, the show will remain on Max where the existing 26 seasons are currently available with no pending removal notice.

Paramount had long been expected to bring South Park to its Paramount+ platform after the deal with WBD expires. The company’s co-CEO Chris McCarthy, who oversees Comedy Central and streaming, addressed that during the company’s earnings call in May.

“And starting this July, [South Park] will be coming to Paramount+ in the U.S.,” he said.

According to sources, the hope still is for the show to launch on Paramount+ in July, in time for the series’ Season 27 premiere on Comedy Central on July 9. Paramount Global, which has been facing financial challenges, has been open to licensing its content to outside platforms on a non-exclusive basis.

Reps for Paramount and WBD declined comment.

The ongoing discussions between WBD and Paramount over extending South Park’s Max deal represent a change in tone for the two companies, which have had a contentious partnership. It has resulted in a lawsuit over the South Park specials for Paramount+, which is still pending.

Parker and Stone signed a deal with Comedy Central in 2021, reportedly for around $900M, to extend South Park through Season 30, running through 2027.

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One more month to go!!🥳

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South Park Studios Live-Tweet Archive

From 2013 to 2018, South Park Studios did "live-tweets" on Twitter during broadcasts of episodes. These often contained pre-production art, script images, miscellaneous facts, and sometimes a little insight from Matt and Trey. For the ongoing seasons, these were usually done the following week before the brand new episode aired, with a couple odd exceptions, but select "classic" episodes were also done, usually during the first and the dark weeks in a new season.

Willie "Big Will" Westwood archived these at the Scriptorium during its final years, and I've found the archive links for most of them. Seasons 20-21 are incomplete here, and Season 22 is not archived; the #SocialCommentary features on the Blu-Ray releases are also based on these. "The Hobbit" was skipped because there was no accompanying new episode and "Naughty Ninjas" was cancelled because of a police shooting, but otherwise I believe one was done for every seasons 17-22 episode.

Whoever was in charge of the Twitter at the time did a strong job on these and definitely had access to the studio. Some of the Matt and Trey comments are familiar but some are not included anywhere else, on some occasions a piece of pre-production art would be shared earlier in the day or week as a tease for the live-tweets (I don't think these pre-tweets are included below) and on one occasion they actually hyped up a scene in an upcoming episode hours before broadcast. (For "Freemium isn't Free", they teased the return of a character who hadn't been seen in years; this was in reference to Satan)

I hope one day to ask Willie for the un-archived ones and maybe getting these backed up somewhere, possibly the uncensored South Park Archives on Wiki.gg

Season 5

"Scott Tenorman Must Die"

"Towelie"

Season 6

"The Return of the Fellowship of the Ring to the Two Towers"

Season 8

"Awesom-o" (live-tweeted twice!)

Season 10

"Tsst"

"Make Love, Not Warcraft"

Season 12

"The Ungroundable"

Season 13

"Fishsticks"

"Butters Bottom Bitch"

Season 14

"Medicinal Fried Chicken"

Season 15

"Broadway Bro Down"

Season 16

"Raising the Bar"

"A Nightmare on Face Time"

Season 17

"Let Go, Let Gov"

"Informative Murder Porn"

"World War Zimmerman"

"Goth Kids 3: Dawn of the Posers"

"Taming Strange"

"Ginger Cow"

"Black Friday"

"Titties and Dragons"

"A Song of Ass and Fire"

"The Hobbit" (blank page, possibly a placeholder; I don't recall this one actually receiving a live-tweet)

Season 18

"Go Fund Yourself"

"Gluten Free Ebola"

"The Cissy"

"Handicar"

"The Magic Bush"

"Freemium isn't Free"

"Grounded Vindaloop"

"Cock Magic"

"#REHASH"

"#HappyHolograms"

Season 19

"Stunning and Brave"

"Where My Country Gone?"

"The City Part of Town"

"You're Not Yelping"

"Safe Space"

"Tweek x Craig"

"Naughty Ninjas" (was cancelled)

"Sponsored Content"

"Truth and Advertising"

"PC Principal Final Justice"

Season 20

"Member Berries"

"The Damned"

Season 21

"Hummels & Heroin"

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Reminder that the best South Park wiki is on wiki.gg. it has almost no ads, loads quickly, and is pleasant to use both as a reader and an editor.

One of my favorite things about it is the way it shows what each character looks like in the category pages. It's pretty cute. Also handy if you have a background favorite but can't remember info about them

The table of contents on main articles is pretty cool too. Links to different sections all in a neat little box. It even works on mobile!

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HAPPY B DAY MATT💗💗🎂🎂

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Comedy Central picked a curious date for the Season 27 premiere of animated stalwart South Park after a two-year break, July 9. That is just a few days after Paramount’s $500 million exclusive streaming licensing deal with HBO Max for Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s juggernaut is set to expire on June 30, allowing the new season, along with the rest of the South Park library, to stream on Comedy Central’s Paramount sibling Paramount+.

When the date was announced last month, industry observers suspected some gamesmanship since Paramount has long been looking to bring two of its crown jewels on third-party streamers, South Park and Yellowstone, to its Paramount+ platform and in light of Paramount and HBO Max’s contentious partnership on South Park, which has resulted in a lawsuit.

Paramount Global co-CEO Chris McCarthy, who oversees Comedy Central, touted the marquee streaming addition during the company’s earnings call last week.

“And starting this July, [South Park] will be coming to Paramount+ in the US,” he said.

But, in a story that already has had plenty of twists, there may be another one. While South Park will finally be streaming on Paramount+, the series won’t necessarily be leaving HBO Max.

I hear there are conversations about keeping South Park on the Warner Bros. Discovery streamer. Sources stress that the talks are preliminary and part of Paramount taking the series to market.

That is a common practice for big shows created under the traditional TV model in order to avoid self-dealing accusations — and litigation — by profit participants which, in this case include South Park creators/executive producers Parker and Stone.

According to sources, it is certain that South Park will be on Paramount+ starting July 1, but it is uncertain whether the streamer will have it exclusively. Sharing the series on a non-exclusive basis with another platform, like HBO Max, is a real possibility, I hear.

Reps for Paramount and WBD declined comment.

That has been part of Paramount’s MO for virtually all of its library series — and many of its originals except the Taylor Sherdan dramas — bringing in a revenue stream to the company that has been focused on improving its bottom line.

Then AT&T-owned WarnerMedia landed the exclusive domestic streaming rights to all existing plus new seasons of South Park in a $300 million deal signed in 2019, before the launch of Paramount+. After Paramount’s streamer got up and running, South Park started making specials outside of the HBO Max agreement exclusively for Paramount+, triggering the 2023 lawsuit by HBO Max’s current parent WBD against Paramount. It is still pending.

South Park revolves around four boys, Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny. Season 26, which featured six episodes, premiered on Comedy Central in February 2023 and ran through March. There were three specials, written and directed by Parker, that debuted between October 2023 and March 2024.

Parker and Trey signed a deal with Comedy Central in 2021, reportedly for around $900M, to extend South Park through Season 30, running through 2027.

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Happy Easter! 🐇🥚💚

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South Park is preparing for Season 27.

The animated show will return to Comedy Central, two years on from Season 26. It will launch on Wednesday July 9.

Season 26, which featured six episodes, premiered on the Paramount cable network in February 2023 and ran through March. There were three specials, written and directed by Trey Parker, that aired between October 2023 and March 2024.

The new season has been teased in a trailer that you can watch above. It includes Diddy seemingly chasing the South Park kids and/or an alien through space with a gun, a battle with Canada, dirty toilet bowls, multiple plane crashes. It’s not clear how many episodes have been produced.

“It’s ok, Sharon, I’m just going to do some ketamine and f*ck around with the government a little, see ya,” says Stan’s dad Randy Marsh in the trailer.

The series, which revolves around Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2022. It was created by Parker and Matt Stone, who exec produce alongside Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II.

The move comes after Stone and Parker’s untitled comedy feature, produced by Kendrick Lamar, was moved from 2025 to 2026.

Parker and Trey signed a deal with Comedy Central in 2021, reportedly for around $900M, to extend South Park through Season 30, running through 2027.

The pair revealed last year why the series was delayed. They said they wanted to avoid the 2024 Presidential elections and were “waiting for Paramount to figure all their sh*t out”.

“We’ve tried to do South Park through four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing to—it’s such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance,” Stone told Vanity Fair.

Parker added, “Obviously, it’s f***ing important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun. I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump.”

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NEW MATT PHOTO DROPPED HES ALIVE

JUMPING IN CIRCLES YIPPIEEE

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OMG so according to what April Stewart told this fan at the Lexington Comic and Toy Convention, we should be getting a new teaser sometime soon!!👀🤩 (Most likely for the next Exclusive Event, per what Matt confirmed will be coming first this year)

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For those who weren't able to snag their copy for Record Store Day last year, now is your chance! The wide release drops April 18th!😁 (and cheaper than what copies you'll find on eBay!😉)

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Nintendo Official Magazine UK #76, January 1999 - ‘South Park’ Cover. Support us on Patreon