{"id":50211,"date":"2025-07-31T14:21:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:21:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50211\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:21:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T14:21:13","slug":"south-park-season-27-premiere-gets-big-ratings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/50211\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018South Park\u2019 Season 27 Premiere Gets Big Ratings"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tThe much-hyped 27th-season premiere of South Park<\/a> brought in a big audience for Comedy Central<\/a> and Paramount+.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn the three days after its July 23 premiere, the episode \u2014\u00a0which among other things depicted President Donald Trump in bed with Satan<\/a> \u2014\u00a0gathered 5.9 million cross-platform viewers, including on-air replays. That\u2019s a 68 percent improvement on the season 26 premiere back in February 2023. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe season premiere was pushed back two weeks<\/a> from its original date as South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone worked out a massive new deal<\/a> with Paramount Global that includes the show\u2019s library moving from HBO Max to Paramount+ and next-day streaming of new episodes on Paramount+. The latter aspect of the deal helped fuel the big tune-in; on Comedy Central, South Park drew 430,000 viewers for its initial airing, less than 10 percent of the three-day total.<\/p>\n

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\n\tThe premiere, titled \u201cSermon on the \u2018Mount,\u201d also finds Trump threatening to sue the town of South Park for $5 billion, then settling for $3.5 million and a promise to produce \u201cpro-Trump messaging\u201d \u2014 a live-action deepfake at the end of the episode \u2014\u00a0in an echo of CBS\u2019 60 Minutes settlement<\/a> with the president and, at least according to Trump, a side agreement that the network will air public service announcements in line with the administration. <\/p>\n

\n\tFollowing the premiere, South Park is taking a week off<\/a> \u2014\u00a0a repeat of \u201cSermon on the \u2018Mount\u201d is set to air Wednesday night \u2014\u00a0before resuming new episodes Aug. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The much-hyped 27th-season premiere of South Park brought in a big audience for Comedy Central and Paramount+. In…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[4207,88,4210,9611],"class_list":["post-50211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-comedy-central","tag-entertainment","tag-south-park","tag-tv-ratings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}