Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman are planting even deeper roots at Comedy Central. South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone have signed a $900 million deal with parent company ViacomCBS, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The outlet categorized it as “one of the richest deals in TV history.”
Parker and Stone will make six new seasons of South Park for Comedy Central, bringing their long-running comedy to Season 30. The duo will also create a mind-boggling 14 spinoff films for the company’s streaming service, Paramount+. These will be the first South Park movies since 1999’s South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. The first two films in this deal will reportedly debut before the end of 2021. Two a year are scheduled through 2027, according to Deadline. This may produce a bit of a sticky streaming situation for South Park, which currently streams exclusively on HBO Max.
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“Comedy Central has been our home for 25 years and we’re really happy that they’ve made a commitment to us for the next 75 years,” Parker and Stone said in a statement, via Deadline. “When we came to ViacomCBS with a different way to produce the show during the pandemic, Chris (McCarthy), Nina (Diaz), Keyes (Hill-Edgar) and Tanya (Giles) were immediately supportive and enabled us to try something new that turned out to be really well received. We can’t wait to get back to doing traditional South Park episodes but now we can also try out new formats. It’s great to have partners who will always take a chance with us.”
Their landmark deals comes on the heels of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine selling to Blackstone Group Inc. That company was also valued at $900 million, though it’s produced a fraction of the content Parker and Stone’s South Park has.
The animated series premiered in 1997 and became Comedy Central’s best-rated show in its first season. Parker and Stone have been able to maintain its dominance, creating the top cable telecast of 2021 with their South ParQ Vaccination Special. “Matt and Trey are world-class creatives who brilliantly use their outrageous humor to skewer the absurdities of our culture and we are excited to expand and deepen our long relationship with them to help fuel Paramount+ and Comedy Central,” Chris McCarthy, President/CEO -MTV Entertainment & CCO/Adult Animation – Paramount+, said in a statement to Deadline.
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Parker indicated his commitment to creating South Park ahead of its 20th season in 2016. “I think what we said is like, we’re those kids that are never gonna excuse ourselves from the table,” he told Vanity Fair. “We’re gonna wait to be excused. We’re gonna wait to be thrown out. It’s just been a mentality for us—and in a way it’s been a healthy mentality—that we, from the beginning, thought, “O.K., well, this isn’t gonna last. Any minute now we’re gonna get run out of town.”
That day doesn’t appear to be coming any time soon.
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