{"id":905762,"date":"2026-09-26T03:56:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905762\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T03:56:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T03:56:19","slug":"south-park-season-29-premiere-ratings-4-3-million-viewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/905762\/","title":{"rendered":"South Park Season 29 Premiere Ratings: 4.3 Million Viewers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTrey Parker and Matt Stone\u2019s latest stunt has paid off. The Season 29 premiere of \u201cSouth America<\/a>\u201d \u2014 renamed from \u201cSouth Park\u201d as a parody of Donald Trump\u2019s controversial initiatives to rename major landmarks <\/a> \u2014 hit 4.2 million viewers in three days.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat total accounts for viewership across Comedy Central and Paramount+ in the U.S. alone. The episode\u2019s audience was relatively even with the previous season premiere, which reached 4.3 million viewers in three days, while making strong improvements among viewers age 18-49. In that demographic, the episode scored a 0.97 rating after three days, up 33% from Season 28\u2019s 0.73 rating, and a share of 4.77, up from 20% from last year\u2019s 3.96. Between Monday and Friday, the \u201cSouth America\u201d premiere was the most-watched cable telecast of the week among adults 18-49, excluding sports programming.<\/p>\n

\n\tUnsurprisingly, the first episode since renaming to \u201cSouth America\u201d drove conversation on social media. On the day of its premiere, the series ranked as the No. 1 most social cable comedy, and went on to generate 11 million views and one million engagements in three days. It garnered 63,000 online mentions in three days, a 40% increase from what the Season 28 premiere achieved in the same amount of time. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn a statement earlier this month, Parker and Stone said, \u201cInspired by the bravery and patriotism of Apple and Google, we are changing the name of \u2018South Park<\/a>\u2019 to \u2018South America,\u2019\u201d referencing the fact that the tech companies have honored Trump\u2019s name changes on their maps. \u201cWe especially want to thank our parent company Paramount \u2014 a Skydance Capitulation.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trey Parker and Matt Stone\u2019s latest stunt has paid off. The Season 29 premiere of \u201cSouth America\u201d \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":905763,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,11298,21300,427],"class_list":["post-905762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-south-america","tag-south-park","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905762","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=905762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/905763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}