Paramount Won’t Say Why ‘South Park’ Is Delayed, But Trey Parker and Matt Stone Have A Theory
South Park fans are going to have to wait a couple weeks longer than they were promised to see the Season 27 premiere, but the show’s creators have urged us not to blame the creative team for the delay — hell, we shouldn’t even blame Canada.
Earlier this morning, just one week before the planned release of the first episode from South Park Season 27, Comedy Central quietly announced that they have pushed back the season premiere to Wednesday, July 23rd. The Paramount Global-owned channel declined to go into detail about the specifics of the move, but, seeing as the news just broke that Paramount agreed to pay President Donald Trump $16 million to drop his lawsuit against 60 Minutes amidst the company’s ongoing efforts to push a merger with Skydance Media through Trump’s FCC, perhaps the Paramount PR department had more pressing matters to address than a cartoon’s release schedule.
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Thankfully, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, who recently sent a strongly worded legal threat to both Paramount and Skydance alleging interference in their negotiations with other platforms over the coveted South Park streaming rights, had ample time to discuss the delay on the official South Park Twitter page, because, unlike Paramount, Parker and Stone are actually accountable and on schedule.
South Park fans will know well that, in the show’s previous production cycle, Parker and Stone would habitually finish each South Park episode just minutes before it was scheduled to premiere, and the pair’s reputation from the lauded 2011 Comedy Central documentary 6 Days to Air likely had something to do with their swift response to the delay.
So, no, Parker and Stone’s notoriously stressful creative process and time-management skills aren’t responsible for the delay. According to the South Park creators, it’s more bullshit from their corporate overlords and prospective new patrons that’s getting in the way of South Park Season 27. However, given that Parker, Stone and the entire South Park team now have an extra two weeks to fine-tune the new season, perhaps this rain check will give them time to tack on an extra storyline at the end of the criminally short, six-episode season.
If Paramount and Skydance didn’t like that letter from Parker and Stone’s lawyers, they’re really going to hate what the duo does to them in South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 3.
