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Oh. Ok. You have the funds to stream South Park, for 1.5 BILLION dollars......but Colbert gets canned for a 40 MILLION dollar loss, which is bullshit to begin with.
Mmmmm-Hmmmmm.......
The truth is Mango has the memory of a goldfish.
South Park makes 10 episodes a year (at most) and after the Mr Garrison storyline it grew old. Not that South Park doesn't bring him up, it's just that with only a few episodes you've got to focus on your topic of the week. Also by 10 episodes I mean like 6 and by every year nothing since 1 special in 2024.
Colbert however? As a late night news talk show it makes ~160 episodes a year. And a certain someone loves to make a fool of themselves and suck up all the oxygen in the room, so it's not surprising he comes up on Colbert's show so frequently.
Last year during the writers strike Colbert made no new episodes. Had the strike been this year instead I doubt the show would be cancelled.
Hell if Colbert wasn't as highly rated of a show, it also probably wouldn't be cancelled. Seth Meyers who is in the late night time slot and for some reason has low ratings constantly shits on Mr. Crybaby and you rarely hear about it. (Also CBS vs NBC and a pending merger.)
We all know it's a cowardly shakedown.
I don't agree with the Colbert stuff, but if South Park is going to make them more than 1.5Bn then I don't really understand what you're on about.
South Park would be running no matter what, Paramount had no real leverage over the continuation of the show itself.
Paramount was basically cornered here in negotiations, because they want South Park on Paramount+ instead of on rival HBO Max.