Paramount hit Warner Bros. Discovery with a counterclaim in the legal fight over South Park's streaming rights
in a lawsuit over the streaming rights for the comedic cartoon, and is seeking more than $50 million in unpaid fees., comes nearly two months after the feud between the two media giants kicked off., seeking hundreds of millions of dollars for what it believed was a breach of contract. Warner alleged Paramount withheld specials and other related "South Park" content as its own fledgling streaming service, Paramount+, was lifting off.
The related "South Park" content was created during the height of the pandemic, when the show's creators and staff couldn't meet normally to turn out episodes and instead worked on features that ended up being double the length of the usual 22-minute installments. In the initial lawsuit, Warner said it agreed in 2019 to pay more than $500 million, or roughly $1.69 million per episode, to license episodes of the long-running cartoon that features bad-mouthed elementary school children for HBO Max. "South Park" has been airing on Paramount's cable-TV network Comedy Central for decades.
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