Warner Bros Discovery (WBD) will remove all episodes of the hit adult animated sitcom “South Park” on August 5 following the show’s decision to ink an exclusive agreement with cross-town rival Paramount Global.

For the past five years, HBO Max — called “Max” at one point, until the name reverted last month — has served as the exclusive home of South Park’s television episodes in the United States, while Paramount Plus enjoyed the rights to the show overseas.

Starting August 5, the show will be exclusive to Paramount Plus after the show’s co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone reached a $1.5 billion, five-year digital rights agreement last month. Parker and Stone had initially pursued a 10-year agreement reportedly valued at around $300 million per year, but Skydance — the new owners of Paramount starting next week — balked at such a long-term commitment, citing the volatile media landscape. Paramount’s pre-merger agreement with Skydance gave the latter voting power to block deals in excess of $50 million.

The dispute over how much Paramount should pay for digital rights to South Park led to a temporary delay of the show’s new season, which was supposed to start on Comedy Central in early July. It also triggered a three-week extension of WBD’s digital rights deal for the show on HBO Max, which expires next week.

Paramount is still working to secure a new agreement with Parker and Stone that involves the production of new South Park episodes for Comedy Central. The network’s broadcast rights deal with Parker and Stone ends in 2027, but Paramount executives are optimistic a new deal will be reached in light of the five-year agreement for the show on Paramount Plus.