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What’s the Beef Between South Park’s Creators and Paramount?
Matt Stone and Trey Parker aren’t happy after the show’s parent company delayed its season-27 premiere. But there’s more to it than that.
The announcement might have flown under the radar, but not long after, the show’s creators, Matt Stone and Trey Parker, took to South Park ’s official X account to express frustration with the decision. “This merger is a shitshow and it’s fucking up South Park,” they wrote, referring to the pending acquisition of Comedy Central’s parent company, Paramount Global, by Skydance. If it seems a little extreme to say that a two-week delay of a season premiere two years in the making is “fucking up” a show that has been on the air since 1997, it might be because Stone and Parker’s statement is missing some context.
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