HBO Max claims Paramount reneged on its $500 million deal for HBO to have the exclusive rights to show “South Park,” new court papers allege.
HBO Max on Friday filed a lawsuit against Paramount, alleging the network reneged on its $500 million deal giving HBO the rights to hit show “South Park.”
Under the deal’s terms, HBO would not only get the entire library of past episodes that originally aired on Comedy Central and CBS, but also the then yet-to-be-released seasons 24 through 26, the court papers say. Those seasons have since aired. Meanwhile, Paramount produced pandemic-themed “South Park” content to stream on its own Paramount+ platform, the suit claims.South Park/facebook
Paramount – and subsidiaries MTV Entertainment Studios and South Park Digital Studios – “engaged in an illicit scheme to unfairly and deceptively divert to its nascent streaming platform ‘South Park’ content belonging exclusively to Warner/HBO,” the suit claims.
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