Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Making $900 Million Worth of ‘South Park’

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 take care of mother or father firm ViacomCBS, Bloomberg reported on Thursday. The outlet categorized it as “one of many richest offers in TV historical past.”

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 even create a mind-boggling 14 spinoff movies for the corporate’s streaming service, Paramount+. These would be the first South Park films since 1999’s South Park: Larger, Longer & Uncut. The primary two movies on this deal will reportedly debut earlier than the top of 2021. Two a yr are scheduled by 2027, in keeping with Deadline. This will likely produce a little bit of a sticky streaming state of affairs for South Park, which at present streams completely on HBO Max. 

“Comedy Central has been our residence for 25 years and we’re actually blissful that they’ve made a dedication to us for the subsequent 75 years,” Parker and Stone mentioned in a press release, through Deadline.  “Once we got here to ViacomCBS with a distinct option to produce the present in the course of the pandemic, Chris (McCarthy), Nina (Diaz), Keyes (Hill-Edgar) and Tanya (Giles) have been instantly supportive and enabled us to attempt one thing new that turned out to be rather well obtained. We are able to’t wait to get again to doing conventional South Park episodes however now we are able to additionally check out new codecs. It’s nice to have companions who will all the time take an opportunity with us.”

Their landmark offers comes on the heels of Reese Witherspoon’s Hello Sunshine promoting to Blackstone Group Inc. That firm was additionally valued at $900 million, although it’s produced a fraction of the content material Parker and Stone’s South Park has. 

The animated sequence premiered in 1997 and have become Comedy Central’s best-rated show in its first season. Parker and Stone have been in a position to preserve 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 tradition and we’re excited to develop and deepen our lengthy relationship with them to assist gas Paramount+ and Comedy Central,” Chris McCarthy, President/CEO -MTV Leisure & CCO/Grownup Animation – Paramount+, mentioned in a press release to Deadline.

Parker indicated his dedication to creating South Park forward of its twentieth season in 2016. “I believe what we mentioned is like, we’re these youngsters which can be by no means gonna excuse ourselves from the desk,” he instructed Vanity Fair. “We’re gonna wait to be excused. We’re gonna wait to be thrown out. It’s simply been a mentality for us—and in a manner it’s been a wholesome mentality—that we, from the start, thought, “O.Okay., nicely, this isn’t gonna final. Any minute now we’re gonna get run out of city.”

That day doesn’t look like coming any time quickly. 

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