{"id":35812,"date":"2025-07-31T02:12:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35812\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T02:12:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T02:12:07","slug":"5-9-million-viewers-watched-season-27-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/35812\/","title":{"rendered":"5.9 Million Viewers Watched Season 27 Premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\t\u201cSouth Park<\/a>\u201d scored big viewership with its highly-anticipated Season 27 premiere. <\/p>\n

\n\tAccording to Paramount, the new episode has brought in 5.9 million viewers across Paramount+<\/a> and Comedy Central<\/a> in its first three days of availability. Total viewers in this case is defined as total global watch time divided by run time from July 24-26. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe episode also marked the biggest linear premiere for \u201cSouth Park\u201d since 1999 and made it the top telecast in all of cable the Wednesday it premiered. The episode also marked the show\u2019s biggest rating in the adults 18-49 demographic since 2022. With a 0.996 rating, it was up 15% compared to the Season 26 premiere, which drew a 0.866. <\/p>\n

\n\tAn encore airing of the episode, \u201cSermon on the \u2018Mount,\u201d will air tonight on Comedy Central, with a new episode set for Aug. 6. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn the season premiere, series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took direct aim at President Donald Trump <\/a>and his attacks on Comedy Central parent company Paramount Global. Trump is portrayed in the episode in the same way the show use to portray Saddam Hussein, including putting him in a sexual relationship with Satan. It then concludes with a parody PSA featuring a naked Trump<\/a> stumbling through the desert. <\/p>\n

\n\tParker and Stone recently extended their deal with Paramount Global<\/a> for an additional 50 episodes of \u201cSouth Park.\u201d The extension is reportedly valued at $300 million a year for the next five years. The deal also saw the entire \u201cSouth Park\u201d library move to Paramount+ for the first time, with new episodes to stream on the service after their linear debut on Comedy Central. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cSouth Park\u201d scored big viewership with its highly-anticipated Season 27 premiere. According to Paramount, the new episode has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35813,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,7178,75,9489,862,16652],"class_list":["post-35812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-comedy-central","tag-entertainment","tag-paramount","tag-president-donald-trump","tag-south-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}