This morning, the official X account for South Park tweeted out that, due to the Paramount merger, which is being held again by the present administration, they haven’t been in a position to launch new episodes of their present. Let’s again up and go into the merger briefly.
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The Merger Paramount and Skydance have been making an attempt to merge for this complete 12 months. they introduced the mix of the businesses in July 2024, and the entire $8 billion deal remains to be pending. The main hurdle to closing the deal is the pending approval from the Federal Communications Fee (FCC). The regulatory physique’s evaluation has develop into entangled with a lawsuit filed by President Donald Trump towards CBS, a subsidiary of Paramount, regarding a “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. After all, Trump can be President of the USA…so he is form of able right here the place he could make Paramount pay him the lawsuit money with a purpose to get him to get the FCC to shut the sale of the corporate. That strain has led to Paramount setting the lawsuit for a reported $16 million, which lots of people see as a bribe to Trump to make the merger occur. And all of that has brought about South Park to hit a standstill. South Park’s Future Trey Parker and Matt Stone have additionally threatened motion towards Paramount’s incoming president for meddling in offers with Warner Bros. Discovery and Netflix, favoring Paramount+. Mix this with the disputes over streaming rights of South Park, and also you get a state of affairs like we’re in now. It seems like the blokes and their workers have been making episodes, however with out the power to air them or stream them, they have been shelved till a merger is permitted, their contracts are renewed, or they promote the rights to another person, like Warner Bros. This can be a fascinating case of two of probably the most in-demand showrunners nonetheless making new episodes however being unable to point out them to the world due to the sale of the guardian studio they’re making them for…and in addition due to an FCC run by a president in a lawsuit. Let me know what you assume within the feedback.
