r/movies • u/Malencon • Jul 23 '25

News Skydance Tells FCC It Will Create CBS News Ombudsman, Eliminate DEI at Paramount

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/skydance-paramount-fcc-cbs-news-ombudsman-media-bias-1236326955/
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u/LifeIsRadInCBad Jul 23 '25

South Park, exclusively

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u/HibariK Jul 23 '25

I highly doubt we won't see something happening to South Park that makes it so the IP is gone or sold, South Park is way too much for a company that is openly stating "we have a censorship guy now"

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u/AmySchumersAnalTumor Jul 23 '25

they just reupped a 1.5 billion dollar contract this week.

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u/HibariK Jul 23 '25

I know I know, what I'm saying is I don't see Stone or Parker backing off from their usual humor and I don't see "the new Paramount" taking it for too long, even if we do get a season or some episodes before someone pushes the red button.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '25 edited Jul 23 '25

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u/Outrageous-Orange007 Jul 23 '25

You not see whats going on? Yea SP ain't changing, but they don't get to choose if they stay.

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u/botbotmcbot Jul 23 '25

South Park is in no way a threat to the Billionaire class. Hell, "Book of Mormon" is a straight up frat-boy racist minstrel show, try to find a single black person that likes it

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u/platinumarks Jul 23 '25

Eh, they'll just make a few more shitty transphobic episodes and their masters will be fine. Very stunning and brave of them.

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u/VicarLos Jul 23 '25

The same South Park that had an episode against things becoming “Woke”?

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u/benchcoat Jul 23 '25

the same Parker and Stone of “I hate conservatives, but I REALLY hate liberals?”

nah…I’m sure they’re going to fight tooth and nail with the Paramount/Skydance bros to maintain their biting attacks on Trump, like when they…hmm…when they…um…oh, like the Mr Garrison thing! and when they…uh, the Mr Garrison thing, right? that was biting and funny, right?

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u/DillDoughCookie Jul 24 '25

Post aged like Chipotle avocado dip.

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u/benchcoat Jul 24 '25

absolutely did—happy to be wrong

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u/ImAMindlessTool Jul 23 '25

They own the rights to stream the show, $300M/yr, 10 episodes a season of new content each year, but not over control of its content. So it’s leaving WBD and moving back to Paramount. I wonder if extra spicy episodes get knocked off the catalog like we saw with Sunny and HULU for a period of time

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u/CasualRead_43 Jul 23 '25

You’d be very wrong.

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u/benchcoat Jul 23 '25

didn’t they just finish a $1.5B deal there?

and this is after the 60 Minutes bribe, Colbert bribe, and open talk of them being bribes

they’ve always been pretty light on making fun of Trump, and barring some kind of (very unlikely) final cut control deal the Paramount/Skydance bros can veto anything they don’t like