{"id":72786,"date":"2023-02-25T14:36:58","date_gmt":"2023-02-25T14:36:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/warner-bros-discovery-sues-paramount-over-south-park-exclusive-rights-national\/"},"modified":"2023-02-25T14:36:58","modified_gmt":"2023-02-25T14:36:58","slug":"warner-bros-discovery-sues-paramount-over-south-park-unique-rights-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/showbizztoday.com\/index.php\/2023\/02\/25\/warner-bros-discovery-sues-paramount-over-south-park-unique-rights-national\/","title":{"rendered":"Warner Bros. Discovery sues Paramount over \u2018South Park\u2019 unique rights – National"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Warner Bros. Discovery Inc. is suing Paramount Global, saying its competitor aired new episodes of the favored animated comedy sequence \u201cSouth Park\u201d after Warner paid for unique rights.<\/p>\n

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Warner says it signed a contract in 2019 paying greater than $500 million for the rights to current and new episodes of the irreverent present, in accordance with a lawsuit filed Friday in New York State Supreme Court.<\/p>\n

HBO Max, Warner\u2019s streaming platform, was scheduled to obtain the primary episodes of a brand new \u201cSouth Park\u201d season in 2020. But the corporate was knowledgeable the pandemic halted manufacturing, the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n

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In spite of Warner\u2019s unique rights to the present till 2025, the corporate alleges South Park Digital Studios, which produces the exhibits and is known as as a defendant within the lawsuit, supplied two pandemic-themed specials to Paramount, which aired them in September 2020 and March 2021.<\/p>\n

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The lawsuit claims the pandemic specials ought to have been supplied to Warner beneath the preliminary contract. The transfer, referred to as \u201cverbal trickery\u201d within the lawsuit, drove the present\u2019s followers to the competing Paramount platform. Nearly all South Park episodes premiere on Comedy Central, one among Paramount\u2019s cable channels, the lawsuit says.<\/p>\n