South Park fans and MAGA supporters will have to wait a bit longer for new episodes of Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s sharp satire. After the third episode of Season 27 aired on August 20, there won’t be a new South Park this week on Comedy Central and Paramount+, and this seems to be the plan for the rest of the 10-episode season.
So far, South Park’s Trump-targeting season is set to return with a new episode on September 3, followed by another on September 17.
Paramount announced this schedule late last week, confirming the week-on/week-off pattern the show has followed since its delayed Season 27 premiere on July 23 with “Sermon on the Mount,” an episode written and directed by Parker that featured Jesus, Trump, and Satan.
For now, though plans could change, the current plan is to keep this schedule and have Season 27 run until around December 10.
What they’re doing means this year’s episodes need more time than usual to put together, to finish. So much happens right now in just one day with Trump. No one’s going to sacrifice getting it right, even if we have to push getting it to air, and if that makes the season longer, so be it.
a source close to the South Park producers tells Deadline, noting how up-to-the-minute the show has been on Trump’s attacks on democratic norms with ICE kidnappings, troops in the streets of L.A. and D.C. and a very dysfunctional affair with the Prince of Darkness (not Ozzy)
All of which just fine with the folks at Paramount, A Skydance Corporation, I hear.
We’re not going to argue with what’s working. The numbers are great, the show is getting a lot of attention — if they want to give us a 20-week season for 10-episodes, that’s OK.
an insider at the David Ellison-run company said with a laugh about the unconventional broadcasting of this year’s new South Parks
As my colleague Katie Campione noted on August 13, the second episode of Season 27 attracted 6.2 million global multi-platform viewers across Comedy Central and Paramount+ in its first three days.
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Most of these views came from streaming (with 1.6 million viewers on Comedy Central based on L3 results). These figures from Paramount for the ‘Got a Nut’ episode, which featured VP JD Vance’s South Park debut, were higher than the 6 million who watched the Season 27 premiere across multiple platforms.
Paramount says that global streaming consumption of the long-running series from Trey Parker and Matt Stone has grown double digits in the first three days of Episode 2702’s release, up 49% from the same period of streaming for the series post-premiere.
Campione noted
With all that good news, reps for WME-signed Parker and Stone did not respond to Deadline’s request for comment on the schedule for the rest of South Park’s 27th season, and neither did Paramount’s reps.
The show, known for offending everyone equally, is produced by South Park Digital Studios, a joint venture co-owned by Paramount and series creators Parker and Stone’s Park County, under the guidance of former Paramount Global co-CEO George Cheeks, who now serves as CEO Ellison’s Chair of TV Media.
Returning after a two-year break that included multiple studio legal battles, some possible internal disputes, a last-minute five-year deal for Stone and Parker, and a $1.5 billion exclusive five-year licensing agreement with Paramount+, South Park will now release 50 new episodes over the next five years.
As part of Ellison and streaming chief Cindy Holland’s push to grow Paramount+ in the coming years, all 26 previous seasons of South Park are now exclusively available on Paramount+, also known as the home of the Taylor Sheridan Manoverse.
Source: Deadline