Comedy Central has announced that season 27 of “South Park” is delayed by two weeks and will now be released on July 23, 2025. It is not so long, given that viewers have not obtained a single new episode of “South Park” since 2023 (not to mention the only “special” episode that fell in 2024). However, the delay is bad news, if not as bad as Kenny dies an absurd number of times. Now, however, the situation has become Dicey, with the official “South Park” social media account Having shared a statement, well, very “South Park” of the creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

“This merger is like *** show and it is” South Park “. We are in the studio that work on new episodes and we hope that fans will be able to see them in one way or another,” said the declaration.

More specifically, the declaration of Parker and Stone refers to the proposed merger between the parent company of Comedy Central, Paramount Global and Skydance Media, which was signed last year but has not yet completely closed. Now, Parker and Stone’s response reigns absolutely. It is a very “south park” reaction, a bridge burn reaction, filter comments and filter that we rarely see creators. (For a very different shot from the leaders, look The response of the creators of “The Tiny Chef Show” to their series is canceled.)

But there is much more here than Parker and Stone angry with Comedy Central, because this declaration is only the last chapter of a long fight between the duo and paramount. Let’s go back to the very beginning. It all started in 2007 with the creation of South Park Digital Studios, a partnership between Paramount (owner of Comedy Central) and Parker and Stone. The plan was for the studio to manage the streaming rights of the show (a new concept at the time), with none of the parties concerned entirely in control.

In 2019, however, things had radically changed in industry. Streaming was not only one thing, he dominated Hollywood, and each studio wanted a piece of this big treasury pie. Since Paramount did not have a streaming platform at the time, he saw an opportunity to earn a lot of money and sold streaming rights “South Park” in HBO Max, which makes each episode of the program available to broadcast on this platform (including new episodes). Except that in 2021, Paramount had launched its own streamer with Paramount +, and the same year, the studio concluded an agreement with South Park Studios for six additional seasons of the show, as well as exclusive streaming “special episodes” intended for Paramount +.

Yes, Parker and Stone were technically double -soaking by producing exclusive “new projects” South Park for HBO Max and Paramount +. This is essentially this Their special “Streaming Wars” was onAnd this special is spectacular. However, HBO Max was not satisfied with what he considered as a breach of contract and continued paramount to disseminate what the company considered to be new episodes on its own platform.

But this HBO Max streaming agreement had to expire now, in 2025, which means “South Park” would only be streaming on Paramount + After that. If only it was so simple. Instead, this streaming agreement has neither renewed nor replaced by an alternative, and the South Park’s Parker and Stone studios have made his lessons on other companies. Except, according to the documents revealed by The Hollywood ReporterParker and Stone is now threatening to continue paramount for having pretended to interfere with a new agreement for streaming the show.

More specifically, Parker and Stone accuse Jeff Shell, who should become president of Paramount Global after the merger waiting for the studio with Skydance, to try to prioritize Paramount + and shorten the terms with other studios in a new streaming agreement.

In short, Parker and Stone express their anger about what they consider to be widening of companies radically changing the way they make “South Park” (recent seasons have been shorter because they are also “specials”), when the episodes of the show are published and which can even broadcast them.