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After Paramount delayed Season 27 of South Park by two weeks, creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took their displeasure to social media, blasting the company’s prolonged merger with Skydance for causing uncertainty about new episodes.
Paramount pushed back Season 27 from July 9th to July 23rd in a press release, prompting a response from the South Park team a scant 30 minutes later. “This merger is a shitshow and it’s fucking up South Park,” the creators wrote. “We are at the studio working on new episodes and we hope the fans get to see them somehow.”
Season 27 is set to skewer Diddy, ketamine, Canada, and more. Check out the statement by Parker and Stone below.
Paramount Pictures began its merger with Skydance Media on July 7th, 2024, and the deal must be finalized before July 7th, 2025. Publicly, the main holdup has been the FCC, while privately, all parties have pointed to President Trump’s lawsuit against Paramount’s 60 Minutes, alleging the show had deceptively edited a 2024 interview with Kamala Harris. On July 1st, and against the concerns of its journalists, Paramount paid Trump $16 million to settle the lawsuit, privately (though still not publicly) clearing the way for the merger.
South Park Season 26 dropped more than two years ago and consisted of just six episodes, while three special episodes released on Paramount+ from October 2023 to March 2024. You have to go back to Season 23 in 2019 for the last full season. For more, check out the Consequence Crossword “South Park Catchphrases.”
— South Park (@SouthPark) July 2, 2025
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