FCC approves $8 billion Paramount, Skydance merger
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South Park” delivered an episode this week that depicted a naked President Donald Trump in bed with the devil. Paramount just signed creators Trey Parker
South Park,” Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert have all been critical of their own company and President Trump this week.
Parker and Stone reached a $1.5 billion streaming deal with Paramount after a monthslong bidding war, according to the Los Angeles Times. Paramount is the parent company of Comedy Central, where South Park airs, and CBS—which has received widespread criticism over its decision to cancel The Late Show With Stephen Colbert.
South Park” creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone hit the Comic-Con stage on Thursday night, a day after the Season 27 premiere of their smash Comedy Central series, “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” made waves for taking on both Donald Trump and “South Park’s” Paramount corporate parents.
South Park” targeted President Trump and Paramount Global in its latest episode this week, poking fun at the president for targeting his enemies and at one point depicting him in bed
Comedy Central’s “South Park” recently struck a five-year deal with Paramount after a merger delayed the Season 27 premiere.
South Park' couldn't have returned at a better time. The season-opening episode is brutal in its treatment of Paramount, CBS and President Trump.
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Following a near two-and-a-half-year hiatus, the premiere episode shows a naked Trump trying to seduce Satan, and came a day after the show's creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone had reached a $1.5 billion streaming deal with Paramount.
But Parker jokes "we're terribly sorry" about the Trump-skewering Season 27 premiere during Comedy Central's Hall H panel
With the FCC having cleared the Skydance Media-Paramount merger and the deal set to close in a matter of weeks, Paramount Global co-CEO Chris McCarthy will leave the media conglomerate, a company source confirmed to Variety.