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South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker are pretty busy right now. The 27th season of their show debuts on Comedy Central on Wednesday, they are returning to Comic-Con International: San Diego for the first in almost a decade this weekend, and they are also negotiating where the home of South Park on streaming will be after a five-year $500m US streaming deal with HBO Max just ended, while also knowing their deal with Comedy Central for new episodes of South Park is ending in 2027.

They might have solved one of those problems, however. Or perhaps found a new one.

Comedy Central parent company Paramount has agreed to a $1.5 billion contract that gives it global streaming rights to South Park from now until 2030. According to the Los Angeles Times' Meg James who broke this story, it works out to $300m per year.

This would bring all of South Park episodes both new and old under the same roof for the first time. Up until now, South Park hasn't streamed on Comedy Central's sister company Paramount+, as the last time streaming rights were available - in 2019 - Paramount+ hadn't been launched yet. According to LA Times however, this wasn't a done deal as Paramount+ did offer to split the South Park streaming rights with HBO Max, who had been its exclusive US streaming home from 2019 to now, however talked reportedly "collapsed" on Monday. 

This $1.5 billion deal does have its perks for Paramount, as it is a co-owner in South Park Studios. According to the LA Times, Paramount will "eventually recoup about half" of the streaming rights fee South Park would earn - with them, or with another streamer. Earlier this year, Deadline reported that these streaming rights were being shopped around to not only Paramount and HBO Max, but also Netflix - and that South Park creators Matt Parker and Trey Stone were threatening to take legal action over what it believed were illegal negotiations that were too self-serving to Paramount.

It isn't clear what Stone and Parker's opinions of this South Park streaming deal are... yet.

This comes as Paramount is part of a messy merger with Skydance that South Park creators Stone and Parker have called "a shit show" and something that was actively "fucking" up work on the new season.

Here's how to watch the South Park TV series, movies, and specials in order.