The exclusive event is one of two to screen only on Paramount+ this year.
Paramount+, the streaming service from ViacomCBS, and MTV Entertainment Studios announced today two new original South Park exclusive events for Paramount+.
The first, titled South Park: Post Covid, premieres Friday, 26 November and the second exclusive event will stream in December, the date to be announced. With these exclusive events, Kyle, Stan, Kenny and Cartman make their highly anticipated debut on Paramount+, adding to the service’s growing roster of adult animated series.
South Park has kept its place in the cultural zeitgeist with fans watching over 2.2 billion episodes of South Park, between linear broadcasts and streaming services, so far, in 2021. The series has earned five Emmy Awards, to date, and a George Foster Peabody Award.
South Park the series launched on August 13, 1997, and is based on the VHS-shared, animated short entitled The Spirit of Christmas. Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are executive producers, along with Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers. Christopher Brion is the creative director of South Park Digital Studios.
MTV Entertainment Studios’ expansive deal with Parker and Stone includes extending South Park on Comedy Central through 2027 and taking cable’s longest-running scripted series – 13 August, 2022 marks the franchise’s 25th anniversary – through an unprecedented 30th season. In addition to the series extension, the new deal includes 14 South Park original made-for-streaming events exclusively for Paramount+.
In addition to the series extension, the new deal includes 14 South Park original made for streaming events exclusively for Paramount+.
South Park: Post Covid arrives exclusively on Paramount+ on November 26.
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