Overview
- Paramount+ returned creator-approved, restored versions of Jackass Seasons 1–3 on Thursday, making the definitive episodes available now to U.S. subscribers with other regions set to follow.
- The Jackass team asked for the removal of Seasons 1–3 at the end of 2025 so production could revisit and correct edits, episode sequencing, and musical scoring that had changed over the years.
- Johnny Knoxville said past platform versions had been “re-edited, re-sequenced, and re-scored to the point they were unrecognizable” and thanked Paramount for funding the restorations.
- Paramount+ is streaming the restored editions exclusively as part of a coordinated relaunch ahead of the new film Jackass: Best and Last, which opens in theaters on June 26.
- The move restores the show to how it aired on MTV in 2000 and gives fans and media historians access to the creators’ original vision while highlighting how streaming services can correct altered archival material.