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It seems like animated movies are taking off this year, and Universal’s joint project with DreamWorks, The Wild Robot, is showing signs that it will be the next big thing at the box office. The early projections were around $24-30 million but the film is already surpassing itself as evident in its domestic opening.

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Fans are truly shocked at its rapid momentum as there hasn’t been much marketing done by the studios. Regardless, the positive early reviews are doing a great job of spreading the word across the globe.

The Wild Robot is Poised to Become a Box-Office Hit

Helmed by Chris Sanders, The Wild Robot is an animated science fiction survival film based on the book series written by Peter Brown. After getting shipwrecked on a deserted island, a robot named Roz must learn to adapt to its new environment to survive.

The 2024 presidential election just threw us another curveball: South Park, known for its commentary on current events, will sit out satirizing this year’s presidential race between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump.

In a new interview with Vanity Fair, South Park co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone revealed the show won’t return for Season 27 until 2025. The delay can partially be chalked up to behind-the-scenes corporate reasons (Parker says they’re “waiting for Paramount to figure all their s—t out”), but Stone added that the show is also bypassing the November election “on purpose.”

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Never go full nuclear Karen. That’s the lesson of the first-look clip from South Park The Streaming Wars Part 2, now streaming on Paramount+.

The second edition of the first three made-for-streaming South Park movies, this latest finds a mystery wrapped in a riddle over who killed a competitor. There’s no talking to the manager, either, as “Karen” soon discovers.<

South Park The Streaming Wars Part 2 joins South Park: Post Covid and South Park Post Covid: The Return of Covid in the canon.

The titles are part of the 25th anniversary celebration of the original South Park, which bowed on Comedy Central on Aug. 13, 1997. The show by cocreators Matt Stone and Trey Parker has been renewed on Comedy Central through 2027.

Apple TV+ led both the comedy and drama fields when it comes to nominations for the Hollywood Critics Association’s 2nd annual Hca TV Awards in streaming. The outlet’s “Severance” 12 nominations; “Ted Lasso” was next with 11. “Severance” was recognized for streaming drama series, actor, actress, supporting actor, supporting actress, directing and writing. “Ted Lasso” was nominated for streaming comedy series, actor, supporting actor, supporting actress, directing and writing; “Ted Lasso Presents: The Missing Christmas Mustache” was nommed for short form animated series.

The Hca TV Awards are unique in featuring several drama and comedy categories for both broadcast and cable. And it’s also unique for splitting broadcast/cable and streaming into separate nominations and ceremonies. The streaming nominees will be announced later this afternoon.

Netflix’s “Stranger Things,” Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building” and Hulu’s “Dopesick” each landed nine nominations. Other major nominees included Netflix’s “Squid Game” with seven,...

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More South Park will arrive on Paramount+ next month.

South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 will debut on the streaming service on July 13, MTV Entertainment Studios announced on Wednesday.

The first part of the made-for-tv film dropped on the streamer earlier this month. South Park: The Streaming Wars was well received by critics and noteworthy as it brought a fan-favorite character who previously only appeared in one episode: Water park owner Pi Pi.

South Park: The Streaming Wars Part 2 marks four of the 14 films creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone agreed to, in addition to the weekly Comedy Central series, when they signed their 900 million ViacomCBS deal last year.

South Park celebrated its 25th season earlier this year when the iconic sitcom made its return to weekly episodes for the first time since 2019 when the pandemic struck. The newest season consisted of six episodes.

“South Park the Streaming Wars Part 2” is just around the corner. The fourth made-for-streaming franchise film will debut on July 13.

In a teaser for the upcoming film, which you can watch above, a drought has brought the town of South Park to the brink of disaster, and one resident is going full Karen after not being let into the water park.

“South Park the Streaming Wars Part 2” follows in the footsteps of “South Park: Post Covid,” “South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid” and “South Park the Streaming Wars” by premiering exclusively on Paramount+.

This year, the “South Park” series celebrates 25 years on air; it debuted on Comedy Central in 1997. Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny were first seen in the animated short “The Spirit of Christmas,” and from there were launched into television history.

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Paramount+ today announced that the service’s next South Park exclusive event, South Park: The Streaming Wars, will premiere Wednesday, June 1 in the U.S., and roll out internationally in all markets where the service is available.

Paramount+ will debut a fourth South Park exclusive event later this summer, date to be announced. The first two South Park exclusive events, South Park: Post Covid and South Park: Post Covid: Thee Return of Covid, debuted in 2021 and are available to stream exclusively on Paramount+.

In South Park: The Streaming Wars, Cartman locks horns with his mom in a battle of wills, while an epic conflict unfolds and threatens South Park’s very existence.

This year, South Park,...

Sci-fi comedy series “Upload” will return for Season 3, Amazon Studios announced Wednesday. From writer Greg Daniels (“The Office”), Season 2 of the series has remained in Amazon Prime Video’s Top 10 series list since it premiered on March 11.

Set in a future where humans can choose to be “uploaded” into a cyber afterlife, “Upload” returned for Season 2 with its main character, Nathan, at a crossroads: his ex-girlfriend Ingrid has arrived in the afterworld of Lakeview, while Nathan yearns for his “customer service angel” Nora.

“’Upload’ has become a bonafide hit that continues to be one of the most watched comedy originals on Prime Video,” said Vernon Sanders, head of global television at Amazon Studios. “The series continues to connect and provoke endless possibilities for the future of technology and humanity. With Greg’s distinct comedic take along with the dynamic creative team and talented actors, they’ve made a globally relevant...

Paramount+ will welcome back yet another South Park special event when June rolls around.

On Wednesday, the streaming platform unveiled South Park The Streaming Wars, which will premiere on Wednesday, June 1. The Streaming Wars is just the third installment of 14 planned television movie events, following Post Covid and Post Covid: Covid Returns, set via South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s deal with ViacomCBS. The pact also renewed the long-running comedy series on Comedy Central through 2027.

In South Park Streaming Wars, Cartman locks horns with his mom in a battle of wills, while an epic conflict unfolds and threatens South Park’s very existence.

Paramount+ also revealed that it will debut the fourth South Park television movie event later in the summer.

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.

The town of South Park is going to war next month, and we apparently have Cartman and his mom to thank for it.

Paramount+ has announced South Park: The Streaming Wars as the franchise’s next exclusive event, set to premiere on Wednesday, June 1.

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“South Park” has lined up a third event special on Paramount+.

The long-running animated series announced its latest exclusive event, titled “South Park: The Streaming Wars,” will premiere on Wednesday, June 1 on the streaming service. A fourth special will follow later this summer.

In the upcoming special, Cartman will lock horns with his mother in a battle of wills, “while an epic conflict unfolds and threatens South Park’s very existence,” per the streamer.

“Streaming Wars” follows the “South Park: Post Covid” and “South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid” specials, both of which debuted in 2021.

Paramount+ will become the exclusive streaming home of the entire catalogue of “South Park” episodes for the U.S. in 2025. The series version of the show currently streams on HBO Max.

“South Park” first premiered 25 years ago — in 1997.

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Amidst the ongoing battle for eyeballs between the litany of big streaming platforms, a fight we have called the “Streaming Wars” in past blog entries, several new and persistent entities have emerged. Paramount+, formerly CBS All Access, is making a concerted push for a good chunk of the market, having yanked some of its biggest properties (most notably Star Trek shows) as free streaming options available on other streamers.

The newly revamped Paramount+ emerged on March 4th, 2021 to considerable fanfare. During its first year of life on the streaming stage, Paramount+ was able to capture plenty of consumer interest. By the conclusion of 2021, 3 of all JustWatch users were on the prowl for the services of Paramount+.

Our friends at JustWatch have sent us a fascinating appraisal of the most-searched titles available on the nascent streaming platform during its first year of life amidst the big boys like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu.

It has been an anomaly — two of ViacomCBS’ most prized current IPs and top basic cable series, Yellowstone and South Park, are streaming outside of the company’s ecosystem, on NBCUniversal’s Peacock (Yellowstone) and HBO Max (South Park). One of the two will be rectified after the end of HBO Max’s current mega, five-year domestic deal.

Additionally, the Beavis and Butt-Head revival series, originally set at Comedy Central with a two-season order in 2020, will be moving to Paramount+ with a new season, joining the previously announced Beavis and Butt-Head movie, which has now been titled, Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe. The full library of over 200 remastered episodes of the MTV animated series also will stream exclusively on the service.

Beavis and Butt-Head was announced as part of a push in adult animation at Comedy Central built around mainstay South Park. There has been chatter that another project under that strategy,...

“South Park” is headed back home to ViacomCBS.

The company announced that the Comedy Central adult animated series will stream exclusively on Paramount Plus beginning in 2025, after the expiration of “South Park’s” $500 million deal with HBO Max, set in 2019. In markets outside of the U.S., the full “South Park” catalog will become available on Paramount Plus later this year.

In addition, all new episodes of the series will go to Paramount Plus, starting with Season 27 in 2024, both in the U.S. and globally. As part of MTV Entertainment Studios’ new deal with co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker, “South Park” will extend through its 30th season along with 14 specials on Paramount Plus, building on “South Park: Post Covid” and “South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid,” which debuted in 2021.

ViacomCBS announced the news at their Investors Event, during which they also revealed that a new “Beavis and Butt-Head...

Paramount+ will become the exclusive streaming home of the entire catalogue of “South Park” episodes for the U.S. in 2025, moving the episodes over from their current home at HBO Max. Ahead of that, however, the complete library of all 310 episodes of “South Park” will be available to stream on Paramount+ internationally in 2022.

Additionally, beginning with Season 27 of the show in 2024, new episodes of “South Park” will have their U.S. and global streaming premieres on Paramount+. New episodes will continue to air linearly on Comedy Central.

MTV Entertainment Studios’ new and expansive deal with co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker includes extending “South Park” on Comedy Central through 2027 and taking cable’s longest-running scripted series 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+, including this year’s “South Park: Post Covid” and “South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid...

ViacomCBS missed Wall Street forecasts for earnings per share in the fourth quarter, but added a record 9.4 million streaming subscribers and smashed revenue projections.

Wall Street analysts had expected earnings of 43 cents, but they came in at 26 cents on an adjusted, diluted basis compared with $1.04 in the year-earlier quarter.

Revenue of $8 billion, though, far outdistanced estimates for $7.51 billion, climbing 16%.

Investors seemed unnerved by the earnings miss, sending shares down 4% in after-hours trading after they had closed the regular session at $35.99.

Streaming was by far the standout category in terms of revenue, shooting up 48% to $1.3 billion on the top line. Advertising, by contrast, flatlined at $2.6 billion, up just 1% due to lower political spending and fewer linear impressions.

The streaming subscriber gains were led by Paramount+, which added 7.3 million subscribers to get to 32.8 million by the December 31 end of the quarter. The company credited Clifford The Big Red Dog, a Paramount animated...

South Park, fresh off its two December Post Covid movie events, will return to Comedy Central for its 25th season next month.

The long-running animated comedy from co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker will return with six episodes on Wednesday, Feb. 2 to celebrate its milestone premiere. Weekly episodes will then follow, for the first time since the last full season in 2019.

“To be halfway done with “South Park” is a great accomplishment-we can’t lie,” said co-creators Matt

Stone and Trey Parker.

The irreverent comedy has been renewed on Comedy Central through 2027 and will expand with a total of 14 original movies on Paramount+, in the co-creators’ massive deal with ViacomCBS.

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, South Park has taken on a number of topics ranging from vaccines, Q-Anon and more with its specials. The first in 2020 was South Park’s ‘Pandemic Special,’ which marked the series’ best ratings in seven years.

“South Park” has received its Season 25 premiere date from Comedy Central. The show, which aired two standalone specials in September 2020 and March 2021 that served as Season 24, last aired a full season — its 23rd — in 2019. The franchise has also aired two movies set in the “South Park” world on Paramount Plus in recent months.

The 25th season of “South Park” will premiere Wednesday, Feb. 2. Per Comedy Central, Season 25 of the animated series, which first debuted in 1997, will kick off with six new episodes.

Back in August, “South Park” co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker signed a $900-million dollar deal with ViacomCBS’ MTV Entertainment Studios to renew the show through its 30th season. In addition to the series extension, the pact includes 14 “South Park” films made for Paramount Plus, including the recently launched “Post Covid” and “Post Covid: The Return of Covid” titles.

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South Park: Post Covid returned to Paramount+ to take on the latest in pandemic conversation, from new variants to the craze around NFTs.

Picking up from the first South Park: Post Covid television movie event, The Return of Covid starts off revisiting the early phases of the Covid-19 pandemic. Before Kyle, Stan and the rest of gang begin what was supposed to be just a two-week pandemic-related break from school, they devise a plan to blackmail classmate Heather Williams, whose well-connected mother could get them tickets to the upcoming Clippers-Nuggets game. But the pandemic blocks their plans and the quarantine madness begins.

In the future, a grown Stan recalls the bleak days of the pandemic, including the deaths of his mother and sister. But with a new variant on the horizon,...

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South Park officially wrapped its Post Covid saga on Thursday with The Return of Covid, a one-hour followup to the futuristic feast Paramount+ served us this past Thanksgiving.

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Before resuming the story at hand, we’re treated to a flashback of a seemingly average day at South Park Elementary School. Cartman is thrilled to announce that he took a picture of...

At the first year-end since the March 4 launch of ViacomCBS’ Paramount+, the streaming platform has released some information about consumption of its original content. There are no hard numbers as no streamer besides Netflix has released viewership stats yet but there is a list of some of Paramount+’s top performers.

The most watched original series on Paramount+ in 2021 was one of the service’s oldest titles, CBS All Access carryover Star Trek: Discovery. It was followed by the iCarly revival, which was P+’s was the second-most-watched original series.

Going down the list, the most watched original drama series on the platform (Paramount+ classifies drama Star Trek: Discovery a sci-fi series) was Seal Team, followed by Evil. Both shows became Paramount+ originals this year after starting off on CBS.

While Seal Team and Evil were the most watched original drama series on Paramount+ overall in 2021, when it comes to...

Variety Trending TV Charts from Twitter debuted on Wednesday, with “Cowboy Bebop” (Netflix), “The Late Late Show With James Corden” (CBS) and “Miss Universe” (Fox) topping this week’s list of the most-tweeted about shows across network TV and streaming.

Variety and Twitter announced the charts earlier this year at Advertising Week New York. The Variety Trending TV Charts, powered by Twitter, detail the top 10 programs that are organically bubbling up on the social platform, analyze the day-to-day movement of the top three shows and provide a heat map of what shows are resonating across the country.

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South Park fans will soon see another Post Covid special on Paramount+. A premiere date has been announced for the upcoming special titled South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid. In the story, Stan, Kyle, and Cartman try to save Kenny's life and ensure that the pandemic never happened. The first South Park: Post Covid special was released on the streaming service for Thanksgiving.

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As part of the deal with Paramount+ and "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the second of their 14 original television movies for the streaming network has set a premiere date. "South Park: Post Covid: Covid Returns" is due out on Thursday, December 16, 2021. The film is a continuation of the first exclusive event released on Thanksgiving, "South Park: Post Covid." 

The first installment takes place in the near future where Stan, Kyle, Kenny, and Cartman are adults and have all gone their separate ways due to how they all handled, or mishandled, the Covid-19 pandemic. Kenny, who has turned into the world's...

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Paramount+ has set a premiere date for South Park: Post Covid: Covid Returns, the second of 14 original television movies from series co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.

Set to premiere on Thursday, Dec. 16, South Park: Post Covid: Covid Returns follows the Thanksgiving movie event South Park: Post Covid.

Paramount+’s description is as follows: “If Stan, Kyle and Cartman could just work together, they could go back in time to make sure Covid never happened and save Kenny’s life. In South Park: Post Covid: Covid Returns, traveling back to the past seems to be the easy answer until they meet Victor Chaos.”

The two 2021 television movie events are among the 14 original movies to come out of Parker and Stones’ major deal with Viacom CBS, which they inked in August. The duo is set to create two original South Park films every year through 2027. The deal also saw the renewal...

One of South Park‘s most chaotic chapters yet will continue later this month. The next Paramount+ special, breezily titled South Park: Post Covid: The Return of Covid, will premiere on Thursday, Dec. 16, TVLine has learned.

This will be a direct continuation of South Park: Post Covid, which explored the lingering effects of the pandemic on 2061 versions of Stan, Kyle, Cartman (now a rabbi!) and Kenny (…now dead).

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