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ViacomCBS CEO Bob Bakish Friday defended a strategy of licensing popular content to outside platforms even as it prepares to roll out streaming service Paramount+ in a fiercely competitive market. The company inked of series of lucrative licensing deals with Netflix and Amazon as well as WarnerMedia and NBCUniversal…

Cardboard cutouts from the South Park episode “The Pandemic Special” will again be in the stands at Denver’s Empower Field on Sunday. The NFL has limited or banned fan attendance at their stadiums this fall, thanks to the coronavirus pandemic. To create the illusion of fan support, many pro sports teams have replaced…

South Park: The Pandemic Special continues to post strong numbers for Comedy Central. In Live+Same Day, the supersized special episode of Matt Stone and Trey Parker's venerable animated series drew 2.3 million total viewers and a 2.1 rating in the adults 18-49 demographic, the show's highest L+SD demo number in seven…

The supersized special episode of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s South Park on Wednesday tackled the COVID-19 pandemic, skewered Disney, Donald Trump and cops, and drew a slew of viewers in the process. The Comedy Central animated veteran scored 2.3 million Live+Same Day total viewers and a 2.1 rating in the adults…

South Park is heading to MTV and MTV2 after ViacomCBS revealed that it would simulcast the animated comedy's hour-long pandemic special. The long-running Comedy Central series will premiere its supersized episode – The Pandemic Special – tonight, Wednesday September 30 at 8 pm. It marks the first time that Trey Parker…

Weed sales are skyrocketing and socially distanced classrooms are in session: The COVID pandemic comes to South Park when Comedy Central’s long-running animated series returns Sept. 30 with a one-hour episode titled “The Pandemic Special.” Watch the promo above. The supersized episode, as with all subsequent new…

ViacomCBS next week will add a tranche of 40 shows from CBS and Comedy Central to its free, ad-supported Pluto TV streaming service. The slate of library titles, including mainstays like Survivor, CSI: Miami, Star Trek: The Next Generation and the first 10 seasons of South Park, will give Pluto more than 100,000…

All 23 seasons of the Comedy Central animation South Park are available on HBO Max – except for five episodes that depict Islam’s Prophet Muhammad. Sources tell Deadline the missing episodes were not part of the 23-season package shopped by Viacom to streamers last year, and Viacom had made the decision to exclude…

South Park and the NBA may have gotten there first – figuratively if not literally – but Samantha Bee is heading to China. And she has some questions. In a special episode of TBS’ Full Frontal With Samantha Bee taped earlier this month and set to air next Wednesday, Bee travels to Hong Kong to ask, as TBS says, “What…

The world seems obsessed lately with Baby Yoda from The Mandalorian, the buzzy hit for Disney+. So, naturally, that fascination was ripe for ribbing on South Park. Tonight’s show focused on efforts by Scott Malkinson to get a streaming service in order to win the heart of a local girl. The only problem: his old man…

ViacomCBS will continue to strike major content deals with third parties as well as keeping some content in-house as the streaming wars heat up. CEO Bob Bakish revealed its "multi-pronged" approach when asked whether the company should "pick a lane" on Viacom’s last investor call as a standalone company. This comes…

The writers of South Park continued to tweak China in its latest edition, with Randy wearing a President Xi Jinping mask in the opening credits of  tonight’s episode. The zinger recalled South Park’s earlier poke at the lion’s cage. That, too, involved Randy, who was forced to shout out an epithet against the Chinese…