South Park To Release Two More Specials In 2022, Confirms Paramount+
At the Paramount+ TCAs presentation, it was confirmed that South Park will release two more specials in 2022. Last year, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone inked an enormous $900 million deal with ViacomCBS for six more seasons of South Park on Comedy Central, as well as 14 movies/hour-long specials with exclusive streaming rights on Paramount+. This is one of the biggest deals for the rights to a single show in TV history, which is proof of South Park's enduring popularity and the numbers it can bring to Paramount+.
While South Park hasn't released a new season since 2019, it has had four popular pandemic specials, two of which, South Park: Post Covid and South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid,were the first to be released exclusively on Paramount+. In the streaming wars, a show with an extensive library like South Park is a valuable commodity, and the show moving away from its current streaming home at HBOMax is significant for Paramount+. More exclusive content from hit shows is a boon for the streaming service, which has struggled to get off the ground and reach the heights of Netflix or Disney+.
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Paramount+'s announcement at the Television Critics' Association of two new South Park specials for 2022 puts the series on track of releasing two specials per year until 2027 to get the total of 14. The South Park specials release team emphasized the flexibility of the release schedule and story content. They mentioned that the specials won't necessarily be two-part events, and won't necessarily be released at the same time each year. Read their full response below:
Q: will the specials always release at the end of the year?
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