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Sadly, South Park season 27 won’t drop a new episode this week, and the reason is simple- production is dealing with a massive and arguable unprecedented wave of attention and scrutiny. Turns out, the heat stems from the season’s bold political satire, including jabs at the Trump Administration and even its own parent company, Paramount Global, sparking viral debates and headlines.

Also, this surge in the buzz comes as the long-running animated show hits historic highs in viewership, with ratings reaching levels unseen in 25 years and dominating Paramount+’s Top 10. Reportedly, the Season 27 premiere delivered 6 million cross-platform viewers and has fueled demand for the season’s episode.

While Comedy Central used the pause to celebrate “South Park Day” on August 13, airing a marathon of classics and creator interviews, the team is taking a breather before dropping the next round of sharp comedy.

Why Are South Park Season 27 Episodes Getting Delayed?...

Even though it's been one of the most popular adult animated comedy series for almost 30 years, South Park has been enjoying a major resurgence in popularity thanks to its most recent season. Also an outspoken show that pushes back against politics, media, and pop culture, South Park season 27 has been skewering the Trump administration and stirring conversation with only two episodes aired.

After making its premiere on July 23, South Park season 27 took a week off before returning with episode 2 on Aug. 6. Unfortunately, fans were without a new episode again on Aug. 13 as Comedy Central benched the series for another week off, though according to The Hollywood Reporter, the network had always planned for this particular bye week for a special reason.

South Park season 27 episode 3 didn't air on Wednesday, Aug. 13 because Comedy Central was celebrating "South Park Day," which commemorates the show's premiere on Aug. 13, 1997. In place of a new episode,...

Collider's Hannah Hunt talks with Helluva Boss' Brandon Rogers about his upcoming YouTube special, A Night at the Park. In this interview, Rogers explains his creative process and how it's changed since A Day at the Park. Rogers also shares exciting, exclusive news that A Night at the Park will feature a live-action Hellaverse fan favorite and as well as a cameo from creator Vivienne Medrano.

Brandon Rogers is returning to one of his most beloved settings, but this time the park looks very different. The comedian, actor, and Helluva Boss star revealed to Collider's Hannah Hunt in a recent interview that his upcoming YouTube special, A Night at the Park, which is set for a September 19 debut, will not only continue the world introduced in A Day at the Park and A Day at the Beach, but will also feature a major Hellaverse crossover: a live-action Blitzø.

South Park is a better source of information on current events than any news outlet in the mainstream media, or so say some fans who get their news exclusively from South Park.

Twenty-eight years ago today, the first-ever episode of South Park, “Cartman Gets an Anal Probe,” premiered on Comedy Central and captured the hearts and minds of America’s disaffected, crass and contrarian youth like no other comedy series before it. For the better part of three decades, Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been using their satirical series to tap into the enormous market of young-to-now-middle-aged men who distrust what politicians and pundits tell them about their country and who believe in their ability to see through the bullshit narratives pushed by the rich and powerful.

To some South Park fans, Parker and Stone’s topical humor, their consistent skepticism and their refusal to align with any one political ideology,...

Super Earth has unveiled its latest Major Order in Helldivers 2, and its main focus is on the creation of Tyranny Park 2. Yes, you read that correctly. Se plans to build another massive recreational and education facility, showcasing yet again that the galaxy’s most dangerous threats can be caged.

This bold undertaking also aims to boost morale in citizens and prove that “Freedom never backs down.” To achieve this, Helldivers have been tasked with liberating Bore Rock, collecting vital biological samples, and eliminating various Terminids.

But behind this ambitious plan lies a notorious history that many have forgotten, and the new recruits from Xbox won’t know about.

The Lore and Fall of the First Tyranny Park in Helldivers 2

Before you start contributing towards the construction of Tyranny Park 2, you need to know the lore behind the original Tyranny Park. It was part of the Terminid Research Preserve on Acamar...

As South Park wages its roast war against President Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump and his cronies, the South Park social media team is hitting the White House where it hurts: in the Twitter feed.

We’re only two episodes into South Park Season 27, and the most long-awaited season in South Park history is also shaping up to be its most politically charged and intentionally triggering one yet. Trey Parker and Matt Stone came out swinging in the season premiere, “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” in which they portrayed President Trump as a small-dicked Middle-Eastern dictator who revels in his own corruption while trampling freedom of speech. In order to show how unbothered the President was by the criticism, the White House put out an official statement the very next day condemning South Park and claiming that the series “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years” and is “hanging on by a...

Fans were treated to one of the greatest lightsaber duels when Star Wars returned to the big screen in 1999 for the first prequel movie, The Phantom Menace.

As if Darth Maul (Ray Park) igniting his double-bladed red lightsaber was not epic enough, the Sith Lord’s climactic duel with Qui-Gon Jinn (Liam Neeson) and his padawan Obi-Wan Kenobi (Ewan McGregor) led to galaxy-altering consequences.

Qui-Gon was killed, and a young Obi-Wan avenged his master by becoming the first Jedi in nearly a thousand years to defeat a Sith in combat.

According to Collider, McGregor recently spoke about it at Fan Expo Boston. Remembering the epic fight scene he filmed with Park’s Maul, the 54-year-old actor said, “When Qui-Gon’s been cut down, that… it goes up a notch there. All of that fight was amazing to do, getting stuck behind the laser doors and all that stuff. But that part,...

A voice recalls a world that has forgotten its own reflection. It speaks of a time when the ocean was blue, before a blood-red sky began to weep black rain. This is the poisoned genesis of Syeyoung Park’s The Fin, a film that breathes a melancholic, post-apocalyptic air. We are introduced to a unified Korea, a nation bound not by progress but by the walls of a new paranoia. An ecological cataclysm has scarred the earth, and in its wake, humanity has fractured.

The society is split between citizens and the Omegas, a people mutated by the toxic sea, now bearing the fin-like appendages that mark them as outcasts. The state has weaponized biology, crafting a narrative where the Omega’s touch is contamination and their scream is a death sentence.

They are phantoms, exploited for the dangerous work of cleansing the very oceans that remade them. Beneath the surface of this ordered oppression,...

South Park Season 27 Episode 2, titled “Got a Nut”, left viewers with more than bizarre Ice raids and political satire. The end credits of the episode took a bonus jab at the Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, as she shoots up a pet store, killing some more dogs. The dog-killing jab is a direct dig at her admission of putting her family dog down in her memoir.

The post was shared by the official page of South Park (via @southpark/X), captioned:

Didn’t see this on TV? Here’s the Paramount+ version of the end credits scene.

While the end credits scene did not air on TV owing to its graphic portrayal, the Paramount+ version of the episode featured the extension, giving audiences one last look at the episode’s running joke.

All the Kristi Noem Jokes in South Park Season 27 Episode 2

In the second episode of the incendiary show,...

If you can’t “totally pwn” woke students without cutting their best arguments out of your little YouTube video, are you really a masterdebater?

This is the implicit question asked in South Park’s recent parody of Charlie Kirk, Turning Point USA co-founder and conservative political entertainment kingpin who rose to national prominence through his viral debate videos that featured him “destroying” purple-haired, bleeding-hearted college kids with canned slams about abortion rights and gender politics. In the mid-2010s, a massive media industry revolving around this kind of heavily edited and proudly biased political content emerged with Kirk leading the pack as one of the loudest voices and smallest faces on the market.

In last week’s new South Park episode “Got a Nut,” Trey Parker and Matt Stone satirized both the economics and the deceptive video production practices of the industry that made Kirk and his conservative colleagues some...

Trey Parker and Matt Stone are never ones to shy away from the hottest political and cultural topics, and there is possibly no more divisive a figure in modern politics than President Donald Trump. Following the recent South Park Season 27 premiere, a biting portrayal of the President saw controversy quickly ignite and even led to a response from the White House. This has, understandably, led many over to Paramount+ to see what all the fuss is about.

Officially, as of August 7, South Park is, and has been for several days, the most-streamed series on Paramount+ in the U.S., with the blend of ecstasy and outrage from both sides of the political spectrum bringing plenty of publicity the show's way. Elsewhere in Paramount+'s TV top 10, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is at #10, with the beloved Cheers spin-off, Frasier, at #9, and the ever-popular reality series Big Brotherat #8. Another classic sitcom,...

Even after 27 years, "South Park" is still constantly evolving. The animated series not only looks different than it did in its early days, but its jokes, themes, and characters have also changed with the years. Along the way, "South Park" has learned from its own mistakes and even improved on some of its worst tendencies, be it by apologizing to Al Gore, phasing out insensitive, one-joke characters, or making the Black family vital to the show.

In season 27, "South Park" is once again rectifying some of its previous choices, like having Mr. Garrison (voiced by co-creator Trey Parker) serve as a stand-in for Donald Trump. Instead, the season premiere declares war on the indicted felon who currently occupies the oval offie, and it also makes it clear another character has changed ... or, at least, the world around him has. It's true: Eric Cartman (also Parker), one of the most despicable...

Paramount+ subscribers can’t get enough of South Park, even after 26 seasons on the air. Season 27 of the raunchy animated Comedy Central series premiered on July 23 and wasted no time spoofing everyone from President Donald Trump to Jesus Christ.

Just two days after the second episode of the season, South Park is blowing up on the streaming charts and is in the No. 1 spot among all television shows on Paramount+,per FlixPatrol. Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s South Park is ahead of CBS mainstays, Criminal Mindsand NCIS, which have fallen to the No. 2 and No. 3 spots, respectively.

Not only is South Park dominating the TV charts, but four of its feature-length specials are in Paramount+’s Top 10 Movies as of Aug. 8, per FlixPatrol. South Park: The End of Obesity, which premiered in 2024, is the No. 1 most-streamed movie on Paramount+. South Park’s 2023 special, South Park: (Not Suitable for Children), isn’t far behind,...

The more the Trump Administration melts down over South Park’s comedic criticisms, the higher the show’s record-breaking viewership numbers will soar, and the weaker Trump will look — call it the Mecha-Streisand effect.

When South Park came roaring back to cable television on July 23rd with the Season 27 premiere “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” the show’s long-awaited return following its most excruciatingly lengthy off-season ever didn’t disappoint — unless you work in the White House, that is. In South Park Season 27, President Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump is a small-dicked, Middle-Eastern dictator who abuses the legal system to silence critics and solicit bribes while dodging questions about his close relationship to Jeffrey Epstein, and the President himself isn’t happy about South Park playing his parody so true-to-life.

Less than 24 hours after the premiere of “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” the White House put out an official statement in which they...

The Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, has responded to her recent depiction in South Park. Show creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone took aim at Noem and the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) agency in the second episode of South Park season 27.

The episode depicted Noem repeatedly shooting dogs and overusing Botox as her face melts before raiding a production of Dora the Explorer Live! and Heaven to arrest anyone who appears Hispanic, "If they're brown, take them down." The episode also skewers Vice President J.D. Vance and conservative commentator Charlie Kirk.

In an interview with Glenn Beck (via The Daily Beast), Noem reacts to being portrayed in the animated series. She states that she did not see the episodes because she was "going over budget numbers and stuff," but calls the show out for being "lazy" for making fun of women's looks. She does not address...

The film's box-office record-breaking news drip-drop hasn't yet stopped, but Jurassic World Rebirth is already breaking charts on digital. The latest film in the dinosaur saga is trending on Amazon and iTunes at the time of writing, just a day after its release on digital, all while it stands as the fourth-highest-grossing film of the year.

The sci-fi dinosaur epic has claimed the #1 spot on iTunes Top 10 in the United States and is ranking in multiple more countries already. The Scarlett Johansson-starrer is not just smashing charts in the U.S. but also sits at #1 on Amazon’s Top 10 in Canada at the time of writing. Therefore, it's safe to say that the dino blockbuster has once again revived Universal’s Jurassic Park franchise and has so far grossed over $768 million. The film was released earlier last month on July 2, and it opened with a strong global haul of $322 million.

U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem says that if South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone really wanted to roast her, they should have mocked her job performance instead of her appearance. I guess the part in this week’s episode when Noem threw Dora the Explorer in an Ice van and sex trafficked her to Mar-a-Lago was too subtle for Noem.

On Wednesday, South Park continued its attack on the conservative establishment that currently controls America with the second episode of Season 27, “Got a Nut,” which focused on President Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump’s push for mass deportation and mass funding to the woefully unqualified forces of Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. At the head of Ice’s efforts to kidnap Latino families from live Dora the Explorer concerts was Noem, with her puppy-killing pistol and her team of plastic surgeons at the ready in case of emergency.

No surprise here: Kristi Noem isn’t thrilled with her unflattering portrayal on the most recent episode of South Park.

The United States Secretary of Homeland Security called in to Glenn Beck’s radio show on Thursday to share her thoughts on the Aug. 6 episode, in which an animated Noem recruited mild-mannered elementary school guidance counselor Mr. Mackey into joining Ice.

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South Parkreturned with Season 27 recently, and it has been going viral for its bold themes. After featuring President Donald Trump in the premiere episode, Episode 2, "Got a Nut" doubled down and roasted Trump again, Ice, and Kristi Noem.

Noem, the United States Secretary of Homeland Security, was new to the animated show, and she was completely torn apart in the episode. South Park depicts her as a dog-shooting, plastic surgery-loving Ice agent who arrested everyone in sight if they were suspected of being Hispanic. In an appearance on Glenn Beck's podcast, Noem reacted to the criticism, even though she admitted she hadn't even seen the episode.

Around the 14:15 mark, Glenn Beck brought up how South Park also parodied him in Season 13, Episode 13, "Dances with Smurfs," where Eric Cartman played a fictionalized parody of Beck. "I didn't even know it happened until maybe a year later. I was so busy.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has fired back at South Park after the Comedy Central series rather brutally mocked her looks during its most recent episode.

The second episode of the animated series’ 27th season portrayed Noem — who has been dubbed “Ice Barbie” by detractors — as a puppy-shooting villain hellbent on rounding up Hispanics along with a team of beauticians who are constantly having to re-attach her melting face.

Noem went on Glenn Beck’s podcast and was asked about the show. “It’s so lazy to make fun of women for how they look,” she said. “Only the liberals and the extremists do that. If they want to criticize my job, go ahead and do that, but clearly they can’t. They just picked something petty like that.” Noem added that she didn’t watch the episode personally.

South Park, it should be noted, perhaps even more savagely mocked...

After ruthlessly mocking President Donald Trump in bed with Satan during the first episode in season 27 of South Park, the show taunted Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem in the second episode.

Noem, who is known as “Ice Barbie,” was portrayed in the episode as a Botox-obsessed puppy killer. In 2024, Noem admitted in her book that she had to kill a dog.

In her memoir released last year, Noem recounted killing her puppy, Crickett, for acting up.

“A few years ago, I had to put my puppy down by shooting it in the face, because sometimes doing what’s important means doing what’s hard,” Noem says in the episode.

The episode, titled “Got a Nut,” centers around the character Mr. Mackey being fired from his job as school counselor and having to join the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) to make ends meet.

An advertisement for Ice during the episode says,...

The couch-humping creep whose own President visibly hates him believes that getting his own South Park parody is the highlight of his career, and we couldn’t agree more.

On last night’s new episode of South Park, “Got a Nut,” series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone continued their parody of President Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump that inspired a histrionic statement from the White House upon its first installment in the Season 27 premiere “Sermon on the ‘Mount.” After South Park portrayed Trump as a small-dicked Middle-Eastern dictator who abuses the justice system to solicit bribes and silence critics, Trump’s press corps called the series “fourth-rate” and claimed that the show “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years.”

Now, the rest of the Right from Charlie Kirk to Immigration and Customs Enforcement are trying to pretend that South Park is laughing with them, not at them and their fascist,...

The most heavily censored character in South Park history is the Prophet Mohammad due to the controversies surrounding cartoons at that time. Unlike the show’s usual offensive satire, this censorship wasn’t the result of the network standard or viewers’ backlash. It was driven by threats of violence.

In 2010, South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone attempted to feature the Prophet Muhammad in episodes titled 200 and 201. The episode makes statements about free speech and the double standards in the media (via Av Club). But after real-world death threats from extremist groups, Comedy Central censored the episodes. They bleeped dialogue, blocked visuals, and ultimately banned both episodes from streaming and reruns (via The Globe and Mail and ScreenRant).

The threat stemmed from the broader fallout of the Jyllands-Posten Prophet Muhammad cartoon controversy. First published in a Danish newspaper in 2005, the cartoons sparked global protests, embassy attacks, and multiple deaths.

South Parkfans have been left in mild shock after the hit series takes on Kristi Noem in its latest episode.

After the premiere of the Aug. 6 episode "Got a Nut," South Park fans took to the internet to discuss the episode and ask exactly "how many dogs Kristi Noem killed" during the episode. "Got a Nut" follows numerous citizens of South Park, namely school counselor Mr. Mackey, as they sign up to become Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents. Over the course of the episode, Mr. Mackey becomes wildly disenfranchised with the organization and his position in it, at least some of which is due to Noem's penchant for shooting at puppies without warning.

Did anyone get a count on how many dogs Kristi Noem killed on South Park last night?— Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) August 7, 2025Kristi Noem on South Park 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 pic.twitter.com/rKhvarBGRE...

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk fashions himself to be a political debate prodigy, but Eric Cartman just showed us that any racist loser with an internet connection and a hideous haircut can become a masterdebater in his mom’s bathroom.

Over the course of the last two weeks, the alt-right has gone through some serious mood swings when it comes to South Park. After the show’s Season 27 premiere “Sermon on the ‘Mount” explicitly called President Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump a small-dicked Middle-Eastern dictator who solicits bribes and silences critics through his abuse of the legal system, the White House put out an official statement claiming that South Park "hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years” and that “their popularity continues to hit record lows.”

Then, when “Sermon on the ‘Mount” broke Paramount+ streaming records, the Right reversed course and began to pretend like they’ve been in on the joke the whole time.

In 2024, when Kristi Noem was still in the running to be Donald Trump’s vice president, she published a memoir. In the book, she admitted to killing her 14-month-old puppy Cricket because he had an “aggressive personality.” She tried using a shock collar before finally shooting the dog, writing, “I hated that dog.”

“It was not a pleasant job,” she wrote about the experience. “But it had to be done. And after it was over, I realized another unpleasant job needed to be done.”

It might be easy to forget her puppy-murdering tendencies as Noem has taken up the mantle of “Ice Barbie” as head of the Department of Homeland Security. What’s one sad story about a puppy named Cricket, after all, compared to the thousands of people who have been abducted, deported, tortured and terrorized under Noem’s command?

But South Park proved it was capable of holding...

President Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump recently admitted that Jeffrey Epstein sourced underaged victims for his pedophilia ring from the staff of the spa at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort, but Immigration and Customs Enforcement is going to make sure that the President’s pleasure palace is always fully stocked.

In tonight’s highly anticipated new episode of South Park, the “fourth-rate” and “irrelevant” series took aim at the Ice agents who are conducting daily kidnapping raids of residents and citizens across the country. Leading up to “Got a Nut,” the Right attempted to reverse course on their previous dismissal of South Park by pretending to be in on the joke for tonight’s immigration and podcasting-themed episode, first when Charlie Kirk changed his profile picture to Cartman’s parody of him, and then when Ice used a still from the episode’s promo to advertise their recruitment page.

Considering how South Park...

Exclusive: Keyes Hill-Edgar, a 25-year Viacom/Paramount Global veteran, is leaving as Chief Operating Officer at Paramount Media Networks & Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios. He just notified his colleagues of his departure in a company memo, which you can read below.

Hill-Edgar joins Chris McCarthy, Paramount Global Co-CEO and President of Showtime/MTV Entertainment, who is leaving when Skydance’s acquisition of Paramount Global is completed tomorrow, July 7, with his responsibilities divvied up among George Cheeks, Dana Goldberg and Cindy Holland.

Two other top executives on McCarthy’s team, Nina L. Diaz, President of Content and Chief Creative Officer for Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios, and Liza Burnett Fefferman, EVP and Head of Communications for Showtime/MTV Entertainment Studios and Paramount Media Networks, also are departing.

In his role as COO, Hill-Edgar oversaw business planning, operations and strategy for all content developed by the studios as well as the brands of Paramount Media Networks: MTV,...

Nothing is sacred on South Park. That’s why the show’s recent parody of Donald Trump worked so well. It didn’t matter that Mr. Garrison had previously stood in for Trump, because their latest idea to model the sitting president after Saddam Hussein instead was much funnier. So South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone said “fuck it” and made a new version of Trump (their fourth to date).

The same can be said of the show’s canon: It’s not sacred either. As proof, here are five times South Park has been willing to rewrite its own history in service of a bigger laugh…

1 Character Names

Plenty of South Park kids — like Butters, for example — existed in the background of the show in non-speaking roles for years before coming to the forefront. So it’s not surprising that several of them received throwaway names that...

The Trump Administration recently broke one of the golden rules about dealing with the creators of South Park, never mess with them. This time, Homeland Security posted an image on X from an upcoming episode that shows an Ice raid. Along with the image, they shared a link to a recruitment site for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Via X

The official South Park account didn’t hold back. They replied with a sharp and hilarious comment: “Wait, so we Are relevant? #eatabagofd****.” This comeback directly referenced a statement from the White House that criticized the show after its 27th season premiere last month.

Via X

The White House had said, “Just like the creators of South Park, the Left has no authentic or original content, which is why their popularity continues to hit record lows. This show hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on...

On Tuesday’s episode of “The Tonight Show,” Lin-Manuel Miranda revealed that the movie version of his Tony Award-winning musical “Hamilton” will come to theaters on Sept. 5.

“I have an announcement!” Miranda declared during his “Tonight Show” interview. “So, tomorrow is the 10-year anniversary of ‘Hamilton,’ and we’ve been celebrating all year. But we have one more way to celebrate. We filmed most of the original cast performing in ‘Hamilton’ in 2016, and we always wanted to release it theatrically, but then the pandemic hit, and so we decided to release it on streaming so that everyone could see it at home whenever they wanted. But, Sept. 5, you will be able to see ‘Hamilton’ in movie theaters nationwide and in Puerto Rico.”

“Hamilton” premiered on Disney+ in July 2020, roughly a year before it was originally scheduled to debut in theaters. (The movie had been dated for Oct. 2021.) The movie version...

As the Right changes its course on South Park, someone from the White House’s social media team now has the unenviable job of explaining why they would dare to publicly controvert the statements of President Saddam Hussein.

When South Park returned to TV on July 23rd with brand new episodes following a grueling two-year hiatus, series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone came out swinging with a Season 27 premiere that brutally roasted Donald Trump by explicitly calling him a corrupt, small-dicked Middle-Eastern dictator who tramples on the Constitution, illegally silences critics and has a penis that is oh-so-tiny. The very next day after “Sermon on the ‘Mount” put out arguably the most brutal indictment against the President in the history of comedy, the White House released an official statement in which it dismissed the episode as partisan mudslinging, claiming that South Park “hasn’t been relevant for over 20 years...

Just two weeks after the White House officially announced that South Park was a desperate, irrelevant and “fourth-rate” comedy series, President Donald “Saddam Hussein” Trump's personal gestapo are launching a recruitment campaign using nothing but a South Park trailer.

Back on July 23rd, South Park Season 27 premiered two weeks late with a scathing indictment of the President and their bosses at Paramount who recently emboldened Trump to use frivolous lawsuits to silence critics and solicit bribes. In spite of South Park’s past policy of treating both sides of any political issue as equally stupid and deserving of ridicule, “Sermon on the ‘Mount” was one of the boldest and most pointed criticisms of the Trump administration that comedy has ever produced, and series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone couldn’t have made their feelings toward America’s own tiny-dicked Middle-Eastern dictator any more explicit — seriously, Paramount wouldn’t let them.

The long-running adult animated series South Parkreturned with a bang for its 27th season in July, spoofing the current U.S. President in its series premiere. However, the show, which has been dominating the streaming charts lately, just received news of a major shakeup.

In the wake of the Paramount/Skydance deal, Paramount/CBS executive George Cheeks will now oversee South Park, per Deadline. South Park is produced by South Park Digital Studios and co-owned by Paramount and the series creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Park County. Cheeks, who is the co-ceo of Paramount Global, has also been named Chair of TV Media following the Paramount/Skydance merger.

He will be in charge of Paramount’s broadcast and cable TV business, which includes the CBS Network, CBS News, CBS Sports, CBS Studios, BET Studios, Nickelodeon Studios, See It Now Studios, and Paramount Media Networks, which includes MTV, Comedy Central,...

Will George Cheeks kill Kenny?

Now that Skydance has officially acquired Paramount, the shuffling of the executive deck chairs has begun. One curious decision: All of the shows previously under Paramount’s “scripted production” are moving to the new Paramount TV Studios, according to Deadline — all except for one.

South Park will be part of a different portfolio headed by Paramount Global co-ceo George Cheeks, who also has the new title of Chair of TV Media. Does the name “George Cheeks” sound familiar? Most network suits stay anonymously in the background, but Cheeks made recent headlines as the guy who issued the pink slip to Stephen Colbert.

Cheeks now has a lot on his plate, heading up CBS, its news and sports divisions and a number of Paramount’s old cable properties, including MTV, Comedy Central, Nickelodeon and BET. Connect the dots and — you got it — Cheeks is now the...

The dust hasn’t even settled on the Skydance–Paramount merger, and South Park is already feeling the effects. Under the restructured company, departing Paramount Global co-ceo Chris McCarthy’s scripted production operations are being folded into the newly formed Paramount TV Studios, overseen by Dana Goldberg and expected to be run by Skydance TV President Matt Thunell.

But there’s one big exception: South Park will no longer be in that group’s portfolio. Instead, it will fall under fellow Paramount Global co-ceo George Cheeks, now serving as Chair of TV Media in the post-merger setup. That means Cheeks will be in charge of both South Park’s network home, Comedy Central, and its production arm, South Park Digital Studios — a joint venture between Paramount and creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s Park County.

The shift will put the network and the production under the same top exec,...

Florida’s theme park showdown is hotter than a Slinky Dog Dash in the midday sun, and with Universal Epic Universe swinging open its gates on May 22, 2025, the big question is back on the table: which is cheaper, Walt Disney World or Universal Orlando?

These two titans of magic and thrills are battling for your vacation dollars, and the stakes are higher than ever with Epic Universe adding a new layer of excitement to Universal’s lineup. From tickets to food, hotels, and those sneaky extras, let’s break down the costs for a family of four on a one-day trip and tally it all up to see who wins the budget battle. Grab your Mickey ears—or your Nimbus 2000—and let’s dive into this magical money matchup!

Ticket Prices: The Gate to Your Adventure

Image: Here With the Ears

Kicking off with the entry fee, both parks can make your wallet wince,...

On Saturday August 2 2025, ESPN broadcasts UFC Fight Night: Tairi vs. Park — Prelims!

Episode Summary

The upcoming episode of “UFC Fight Night: Tairi vs. Park — Prelims” promises an exciting lineup of fights. Set to air on ESPN, this event takes place at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas, showcasing a mix of rising talents and experienced fighters.

One of the key matchups features Austin Bashi taking on John Yannis in the featherweight division. Both fighters are known for their striking skills and grappling abilities. Fans can expect a fast-paced battle as they look to secure a victory and move up the ranks in their weight class.

In the middleweight division, Nick Klein faces Andrey Pulyaev. Klein has shown resilience in his previous fights, while Pulyaev is known for his powerful striking. This clash could lead to an explosive showdown, with both fighters eager to prove themselves in the octagon.

Another intriguing...

The animated sitcom “South Park” has aired on Comedy Central since the late 1990s.

Warner Bros Discovery (Wbd) will remove all episodes of the hit adult animated sitcom “South Park” on August 5 following the show’s decision to ink an exclusive agreement with cross-town rival Paramount Global.

For the past five years, HBO Max — called “Max” at one point, until the name reverted last month — has served as the exclusive home of South Park’s television episodes in the United States, while Paramount Plus enjoyed the rights to the show overseas.

Starting August 5, the show will be exclusive to Paramount Plus after the show’s co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone reached a $1.5 billion, five-year digital rights agreement last month. Parker and Stone had initially pursued a 10-year agreement reportedly valued at around $300 million per year, but Skydance — the new owners of Paramount starting next week — balked at such a long-term commitment,...

Netflix’s Squid Game once again dominated Nielsen’s U.S. ranking of streaming originals, this time racking up 2.9 billion minutes viewed across its library of 22 episodes.

For the week of June 30, Peacock’s Love Island USA placed second with 1.7 billion minutes viewed/239 episodes, followed by Hulu’s The Bear (892 million minutes/38 episodes), Netflix’s The Waterfront (759 million minutes/eight episodes) and Netflix’s Ginny & Georgia (681 million minutes/30 episodes).

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South Park’s streaming numbers are up 258 percent following last week’s Season 27 premiere, “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” which isn’t bad for a show that “hasn’t been relevant in over 20 years,” according to its best promoter.

In the first South Park episode in over two years, Trey Parker and Matt Stone broke out the big guns as they ruthlessly roasted both President Donald Trump and their parent company, Paramount Global, which capitulated to the litigious leader in a $16 million settlement that set a dangerous precedent for the media industry. With “Sermon on the ‘Mount,” South Park called Trump as a small-dicked, Middle-Eastern dictator who launches frivolous lawsuits to silence critics of his unconstitutional regime, and they slammed Paramount for playing ball with America’s Saddam Hussein just to push through its acquisition deal with David Ellison’s company Skydance Media.

The very next day after “Sermon on the ‘Mount” aired,...

South Park's season 27 premiere has drawn plenty of controversy, but is also a major high point in viewership for the long-running series. The episode, entitled "Sermon on the 'Mount," was a callback to its 1999 film extension, showcasing President Donald Trump’s actual face on an animated body and in a homosexual relationship with Satan, as done with Saddam Hussein.

The episode garnered praise and criticism alike, with some thinking its satire on Trump was cheap and went too far, and others lauding it as outrageously hilarious and boundary-pushing. South Park season 27 is taking a break, with it unclear if this is from its controversy or brief contract issues with Paramount.

According to Variety, "Sermon on the 'Mount" has managed to pull in 5.9 million views on Paramount+ globally in just three days, completely blowing up streaming. The episode is also reportedly the largest linear premiere for South Park in over 25 years,...

Filmmakers George Lucas and Steven Spielberg have been longtime friends and two of the most commercially successful directors of all time. Both have held the record for the highest-grossing movie of all time at different points in their career. However, Lucas was the first to predict Spielberg would claim the title.

In 1975, Spielberg’s Jaws was released in theaters and became the highest-grossing film at the time. However, Lucas had already predicted that would be the case, as evidenced by a clip in the documentary Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story. Here is why George Lucas thought Spielberg’s Jaws would redefine modern blockbusters.

George Lucas Predicted Steven Spielberg’s Jaws Would Become the Highest-Grossing Movie Ever

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South Park certainly has been in the news during the past week.

The animated series took aim at President Donald Trump in its Season 27 opener, in particular focusing on the Commander-in-Chief’s small manhood, and clearly it has paid off.

The opening episode — which premiered on Comedy Central and streamed on Paramount+, thanks to a massive new deal between the company soon to be owned by Skydance and South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker — was watched by nearly 6 million viewers across these two platforms, per the company.

It noted that the episode also scored its biggest season premiere share on the cable network since 1999 – two years after its debut – and up 68% on last season. Per Nielsen, it landed a 9.2, compared to the 5.48 scored by the Season 26 opener.

It also was the best season premiere rating in three years, with nearly 1M viewers compared to 866,000 last year, and was the No.

South Park made a splash with its season 27 premiere last week, attacking President Donald Trump. But those fans eager to see the encore will have to wait. The Comedy Central series will not air a new episode tonight.

Last week, South Park took its biggest swing at President Trump, jumping right into the controversy involving the president, Paramount, and The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The season premiere saw Trump replace Saddam Hussein in an animation from South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. Creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker mocked Trump's appearance and portrayed him in a toxic relationship with the devil.

The White House responded by dismissing South Park as irrelevant. But the controversy surrounding the season 27 premiere has nothing to do with the show taking tonight off. According to sources at The Wrap, a break was preplanned before Comedy Central aired the season premiere.

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South Park is obviously famous for its not-so-flattering depictions of celebrities, be they sitting presidents or music icons with the power to turn into grotesque Kaiju monsters.

Some stars clearly hated the show’s parodies — pour one out for the assistants who allegedly lost their jobs after quoting Cartman’s racist “Jennifer Lopez” character in front of the real J. Lo — while others were seemingly flattered to be spoofed by South Park. Like Joe Jonas, who recently admitted that it was an “honor” to be abused by Mickey Mouse on the long-running cartoon.

But who was the very first celebrity to feel South Park’s wrath?

Recently, a fan on Reddit pointed to an episode featuring a Kathie Lee Gifford caricature as the earliest example of a South Park celebrity parody. The Gifford character appeared in the show’s third episode, “Weight Gain 4000.” In it, Cartman wins an essay contest...

From Jeff Foxworthy and his “You might be a redneck” shtick all the way back to Ray Stevens and his parody songs, rural comedians — dare we call them, “blue collar comics” — have a long association with country music. But few are as in tune with the genre as Dusty Slay. The Alabama native has a wry, lived-in perspective on country music and the lifestyles that, right or wrong, are often associated with it: Slay spent more than a little time living in trailer parks and he knows a pop song...

The excitement builds as UFC Fight Night: Tairi vs. Park is set to take place on Saturday, August 2, 2025, at 9:00 Pm on ESPN. Fans can look forward to an action-packed night of fights from the UFC Apex in Las Vegas. This event brings together a mix of rising stars and seasoned fighters, promising thrilling matchups across different weight classes.

The main event features an intriguing flyweight bout between Hyun Sung Park and Tatsuro Taira. Both fighters are known for their speed and skill, making this matchup one to watch. Park will look to showcase his striking ability, while Taira aims to demonstrate his grappling prowess. This clash of styles could lead to an exciting finish.

In addition to the main event, the card includes several other compelling fights. Bantamweights Karol Rosa and Nora Cornolle will battle it out, each looking to climb the ranks in a competitive division. Lightweight fighters...

Ice, Charlie Kirk, and a horny Donald Trump all make appearances in a teaser for an upcoming episode of South Park. Today, Comedy Central released the 20-second clip touting that the second episode of the show’s new season will air on Aug. 6, and it continues its hilarious and satirical takedown of the president.

The teaser opens with a re-creation of a Charlie Kirk-type character debating passersby with his alt-right takes, like the real one does for Turning Point USA. “You can just shut up, baby, because you hate America and love abortion!

The fantasy of miniaturization is a peculiar and potent cultural artifact, rooted in a specific vein of American 80s cinema like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It speaks to a suburban anxiety, where the familiar and mundane lawn becomes a terrifying, alien jungle. Grounded 2 resurrects this concept, not as mere nostalgia, but as a lens to examine contemporary themes.

Set two years after the original, players are once again shrunken in the expansive new territory of Brookhollow Park. The core mystery involves not just personal survival but corporate intrigue, with the monolithic Ominent corporation’s role shifting from outright villain to dubious benefactor.

This early access version is more than a simple sequel; it’s an ambitious recalibration of its own formula, attempting to tell a more complex story about technology, nature, and power, even as its own digital seams are still showing.

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