From collider,
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have re-signed with Comedy Central for three additional seasons of “South Park” and that will take the show through 2011. The $75 million deal will give the duo a 50/50 split of ad revenue on digital platforms.
From the Reporter:
"’Three more years of 'South Park' will give us the opportunity to offend that many more people,’ Stone said. ‘And since Trey and I are in charge of the digital side of 'South Park,' we can offend people on their cell phones, game consoles and computers too.’”
The duo would also be in charge of the formation of a new digital animation studio launched with Comedy Central, which would participate in creating programming for the network.
It seems as though a lot of entertainment lawyers are turning their noses up at this offer. Many are saying that it is fairly common practice for a network to agree to split internet ad revenue, but a real precedent will be set when the networks agree to share television ad revenue.
Either way, this is big news for “South Park” fans, big news for Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and big news for internet ad-revenue sharing.
2 comments:
"a real precedent will be set when the networks agree to share television ad revenue. "
What's more likely is internet ad revenue will become more significant and they'll just stop splitting that.
Good for South Park, though.
They're stupid cute, too!
But I like Octo better because he builds shelves in the house.
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