{"id":33802,"date":"2025-07-31T01:27:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:27:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33802\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T01:27:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T01:27:12","slug":"south-parks-raunchy-season-premiere-breaks-a-record-dating-back-to-1999","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/33802\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park\u2019s raunchy season premiere breaks a record dating back to 1999"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Judging by President Trump\u2019s most recent post about TV ratings \u2014 \u201cif you get ratings, you can say or do anything\u201d \u2014 \u201cSouth Park\u201d can keep up the savage Trump criticism.\n <\/p>\n

\n The 27th season premiere<\/a> of the animated series attracted 5.9 million viewers across the Comedy Central cable channel and the Paramount+ streaming service last week, parent company Paramount said Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n

\n That\u2019s the \u201cbest season premiere rating since 2022,\u201d Paramount noted \u2014 a notable data point given the general downward trajectory of basic cable channels like Comedy Central. The channel also said \u201cSouth Park\u201d enjoyed its biggest share of the cable audience for a season premiere episode since 1999.\n <\/p>\n

\n The show, historically an equal-opportunity offender, garnered attention for its ruthless and profane commentary about the president, which likely drove additional streaming viewership during the three day period that Paramount touted.\n <\/p>\n

\n After the show depicted Trump in bed with Satan and ridiculed the president\u2019s genitalia, the Trump White House said \u201cthis show hasn\u2019t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump himself shrugged off the televised satire, which stood out in part because Paramount also recently agreed to pay $16 million toward his future presidential library to resolve his legally dubious lawsuit against CBS News.\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump loyalists at the FCC agreed to bless Paramount\u2019s pending merger with Skydance Media days after the settlement was finalized \u2014 though the officials involved said the merger review process was unrelated.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cSouth Park\u201d called out its parent company both for agreeing to settle the lawsuit and separately for canceling \u201cThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump has recently celebrated the end of Colbert\u2019s show<\/a> and expressed hope that his other late-night critics on TV will also be cancelled.\n <\/p>\n

\n In one of those posts, he wrote, \u201cShow biz and television is a very simple business. If you get ratings, you can say or do anything. If you don\u2019t, you always become a victim.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n In the digital age, TV channels measure success through ratings, subscriptions and associated metrics like social media virality.\n <\/p>\n

\n On Wednesday Comedy Central boasted that last week\u2019s season premiere was the \u201cmost social episode\u201d of \u201cSouth Park\u201d ever, and the \u201cmost social program across all TV\u201d last Wednesday.\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Tweet Email Link Judging by President Trump\u2019s most recent post about TV ratings \u2014 \u201cif you get…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":{"0":"post-33802","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}