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South Park Remaining on Max (For Now); WBD, Paramount Still Talking

Trey Parker and Matt Stone's South Park will remain on Max (at least for now) as talks between Warner Bros. Discovery and Paramount continue.

With Kyle, Kenny, Stan, and Cartman set to return to Comedy Central on July 9th for the 27th season of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's South Park, we've got some good news to share for those of you who stream the previous 26 seasons on Max (returning to HBO Max this summer). Though Paramount and Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) reached the end of the exclusive licensing deal as of today, June 23rd, the long-running animated series will remain on Max for at least the time being. Reports are that WBD is looking to carve out a deal with Paramount to keep South Park on the streaming service (with what's expected to be a non-exclusive deal), and that talks between the two are ongoing.

Speaking of Season 27, what can we expect? It looks like we've got everything from ketamine and overflowing toilets to a space-bound Diddy – and more problems with Canada?!?! Parker and Stone produce the long-running animated series alongside Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell, and Vernon Chatman serve as producers – with Christopher Brion serving as the creative director of South Park Digital Studios.

South Park Creators Discuss Animated Series' Origins

Parker & Stone checked in with hosts Doug Herzog (former network executive at MTV, Comedy Central & FOX) & Jen Chaney (TV critic at New York Magazine/Vulture) on Basic!, a podcast series offering a look back to the glory days of basic cable history. While we don't want to spoil the episode for you because it's definitely a must-listen for fans interested in knowing a lot of the behind-the-scenes happenings, there were some highlights that we wanted to point out. First up, MTV passed on the series outright, while FOX was only interested if the series could be adjusted to focus on a family and not four kids (looking to apply to South Park what they thought it was about The Simpsons that made it work).

And at around the 21:20 mark, we have to give Herzog a ton of credit for throwing himself on his creative word by admitting that he tried to stop Parker & Stone from killing Kenny every week. That conversation segued directly into how Mr. Hankey, The Christmas Poo (S01E09), helped "mainstream" poop, as well as a great anecdote about how many a piece of poop was a bridge too far for one Comedy Central executive.

And then, starting around the 28:20 mark, the trio discuss the "The Gauntlet" short created for the 2020 MTV Movie Awards, spoofing Russell Crowe's Gladiator and John Travolta's Battlefield: Earth. When word hit that the short ended with a Cartman/toilet paper joke that wasn't too flattering to L. Rob Hubbard (author of Battlefield: Earth), Dianetics & Scientology, Isaac Hayes (Chef), who was a Scientologist, asked the show's creators if a Scienologist rep could see the short before it aired. Now, we get the backstory on how The Church of Scientology learned what was in the short at the same time as the rest of us did.

And here's your chance to check out the entire episode for yourselves – a "must" for any South Park fans:

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