‘South Park’s First Paramount Plus Special, ‘Post COVID,’ Premieres on Thanksgiving

We knew this was coming, however it’s a bit stunning that it’s taking place so quickly. At the moment Paramount+ introduced the primary of its unique South Park specials. South Park: Submit COVID will premiere on the streaming service Tuesday, November 25. With an outrage-inducing identify like that (we’re nonetheless in the midst of a pandemic, individuals), there’s numerous room to chuckle.

Although this announcement was expected, not a lot is presently recognized concerning the new particular. Paramount+ launched a teaser for it, which featured one of many mountains of this quiet little redneck mountain city turning into the Paramount+ brand. After it completes its transformation, Cartman says “Oh, that’s fairly cool.” Sure, $900 million is certainly cool. Try the teaser beneath:

However that’s not all. The brand new title will roll out with Paramount+’s launch within the Nordics, Latin America, Australia, and Canada. And this isn’t the one South Park particular of 2021. In the identical press launch, Paramount+ introduced that the second particular would premiere in December of this yr. On the time of publication, the identify and launch date of this upcoming film had been unknown.

South Park‘s impending addition to Paramount+ has been one of the vital stunning TV information tales to emerge this yr. In August, Matt Stone and Trey Parker inked a large cope with the streamer, promising Paramount+ 14 movies for a cool $900 million. That’s along with the present’s renewal by means of Season 30 with Comedy Central.

As stunning because the precise numbers are, it’s not stunning that South Park could be a sizzling IP throughout a time when authentic content material is all the pieces. The collection first premiered in August of 1997. However not like different long-running comedies of this period, Parker and Stone’s crudely animated present has all the time managed to remain related. For the previous 9 years, the collection has been cable’s No. 1 primetime comedy. Based on Paramount+’s press launch, followers have watched over 2.2 billion episodes of South Park to date in 2021 between the present’s linear broadcasts and streaming companies. And since Stone and Parker had been into on-line streaming earlier than it was cool, they’ve extra management over their present’s streaming rights than most creators. Mainly, if you happen to had been anxious about South Park, cease. Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman are doing effective.

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