Paramount+ may have already had its moment in the sun during the still-ongoing Winter Television Critics Association (TCA) press tour, but today, during their ViacomCBS Investors Event, the company and streamer revealed even more. First off, ViacomCBS? It’s going back to being called just Paramount. Details were also revealed about “South Park,” more “Beavis And Butthead,” and a “Teen Wolf” movie.

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When you think of some of the most successful TV creators of all time, you have to put Trey Parker and Matt Stone up there in the discussion. Believe it or not, their hit animated comedy series, “South Park” has been on the air for 25 years, and the duo has just signed what is likely the biggest deal of their careers to continue to make the show (and films) for another half-decade.

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WarnerMedia executives made their pitch to ATT investors on Tuesday afternoon for HBO Max, the company’s streaming service that is designed to compete with Netflix, Amazon’s Prime Video, Disney Plus, Apple+ and Comcast’s upcoming Peacock.  The first big piece of news was that HBO Max will launch in May 2020.  The app will also launch 10,000 hours of content. That’s less than a number of their competitors but WarnerMedia thinks not having filler is better.

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In the peak TV era, much of the attention has gone to the drama shows — the dark, morally complex, violence-filled series like “The Sopranos,” “The Wire,” “Game Of Thrones,” “Fargo” and many more. But that’s only half the story. While they might not fuel thinkpieces and fan theories in the same way, we’re in a golden age of small-screen comedy, as this month has demonstrated: the excellent “Master Of None” and “I Love Dick,” and the wonderful “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” have all recently landed.

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Few TV shows have managed to be as continually button-pushing as Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s “South Park.” Certainly the show has been surpassed from time to time by other audacious material, but nothing has been so enduringly offensive as “South Park”; the show has continually rallied, found some new sensitive subject, and summarily torn it to bits (it was, after all, the first show to ever be labeled TV MA).

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