Warner Suing Paramount Over South Park Streaming Rights

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

variety.com/2023/tv/news/south-park-lawsuit-hbo-max-sues-paramount-1235534780/

HBO Max’s parent company has filed a lawsuit that accuses Paramount Global of reneging on parts of the $500 million licensing deal set in 2019 for the streaming rights to episodes of “South Park.”

The suit, filed Friday in New York state Supreme Court, asserts that Paramount breached the contract by steering “South Park” specials and other content to its own Paramount+ platform.

The suit alleges that Paramount “blatantly intended to prop up Paramount+ at the expense of Warner/HBO,” and that Paramount engaged in “multiple and flagrant duplicitous contortions of fact and breaches of contract.”

[thechase]

Ah, there's next week's plot

[Deleted]

Maybe this part of the reason why we only got 6 episodes this season and some disconnected full length shows spread across multiple networks. What a mess

[cjh]

Feb 24, 2023 14:01:50 GMT -5 slickrickstyles said:

Maybe this part of the reason why we only got 6 episodes this season and some disconnected full length shows spread across multiple networks. What a mess

The regular episodes go to HBO Max in the U.S. 24 hours after they air on Comedy Central.  Paramount regretted agreeing to that deal, so they made a separate deal with Trey Parker and Matt Stone in 2021 to create 2 specials per year specifically for Paramount+.

Paramount announced last year that the current plan is to put the 2024 episodes (season 27) on Paramount+, then seasons 1-26 will go to Paramount+ in 2025.

[Moppy]

What was the deal with the current season only managing 2 episodes before having a week off? Is that usual?

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Feb 24, 2023 15:30:44 GMT -5 Moppy said:

What was the deal with the current season only managing 2 episodes before having a week off? Is that usual?

I don’t know what the schedule is usually like, but basically nothing air’s between Christmas and the end of football.

All my Fox shows did one new episode in that time, now they air Sunday, which is football, so that changes things too.

[Alyce: Old Media Enthusiast]

Feb 24, 2023 15:30:44 GMT -5 Moppy said:

What was the deal with the current season only managing 2 episodes before having a week off? Is that usual?

Usually, yeah.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Well WBD is still 49 Billion plus in debt so they gotta figure out ways to get it back somehow!

[Heeltown, USA]

Feb 24, 2023 13:58:12 GMT -5 thechase said:

Ah, there's next week's plot

Bruh it already WAS the plot of the Streaming Wars

[Lizuka #BLM]

Imagine which way this goes will depend a lot on the specific wording of the WB contract, though it is pretty obvious that the whole thing was Paramount trying to f*** them over.

[chrom]

Second time this week they're getting sued.

[Mozenrath]

Paramount is definitely the one being shadier about this, but all the same...