{"id":1964564,"date":"2025-08-16T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=1964564"},"modified":"2025-08-16T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T23:00:11","slug":"south-park-just-set-a-historic-viewership-record-with-controversial-new-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/south-park-just-set-a-historic-viewership-record-with-controversial-new-season\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018South Park\u2019 Just Set a Historic Viewership Record With Controversial New Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"relative mb-6 aisummary_shadowPulse__HDPrM\">\n<div class=\"box-content rounded-[14px] bg-gradient-to-b from-[#c938e3] to-[#4941fb] p-0.5\" style=\"max-height:5rem\">\n<div class=\"rounded-xl bg-[#fcfbfb] dark:bg-inkwell px-5\">\n<div class=\"relative flex justify-between py-5 text-base font-semibold\">\n<div class=\"flex items-center\"><button aria-label=\"Visually show the key takeways description\" class=\"group z-2\" data-ylk=\"elm:card;itc:1;sec:ai-summary;slk:key-takeaways;\"><span class=\"group relative text-left transition-all duration-1000 ease-in-out\"><svg class=\"absolute size-0\" aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\"><lineargradient id=\"svg-ai-icon-gradient\" x1=\"12.5\" x2=\"12.5\" y1=\"2.5\" y2=\"21.5\" gradientunits=\"userSpaceOnUse\"><stop stop-color=\"#3941FD\"\/><stop offset=\"1\" stop-color=\"#D136E0\"\/><\/lineargradient><\/svg><svg viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"mr-1\" fill=\"url(#svg-ai-icon-gradient)\" height=\"24\" width=\"24\"><path fill-rule=\"evenodd\" d=\"M21.5 6.5a6.77 6.77 0 0 1-4-4 6.77 6.77 0 0 1-4 4 6.77 6.77 0 0 1 4 4 6.77 6.77 0 0 1 4-4M3.5 14A12.69 12.69 0 0 0 11 6.5a12.69 12.69 0 0 0 7.5 7.5 12.69 12.69 0 0 0-7.5 7.5A12.7 12.7 0 0 0 3.5 14m7.5 3.638A14.5 14.5 0 0 0 7.362 14 14.5 14.5 0 0 0 11 10.362 14.5 14.5 0 0 0 14.638 14 14.5 14.5 0 0 0 11 17.638\" clip-rule=\"evenodd\"\/><\/svg><span class=\"sr-only !absolute !w-[310px] max-w-[80vw] translate-y-full rounded-lg bg-white text-sm font-normal opacity-0 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity ease-in-out group-hover:not-sr-only group-hover:block group-hover:p-4 group-hover:opacity-100 group-hover:delay-300 group-focus-visible:not-sr-only group-focus-visible:block group-focus-visible:p-4 group-focus-visible:opacity-100 dark:border dark:border-charcoal dark:bg-inkwell dark:shadow-dark-elevation-3\" id=\"_R_apckr8lb2mav5ubsddb_\" style=\"bottom:-2px\">Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. 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Vance, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem among its favorite targets so far. And audiences\u2014whether out of political alignment, outrage, or general curiosity\u2014can\u2019t seem to get enough.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/articles\/why-south-parks-latest-provocative-214348269.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Related: Why 'South Park's Latest Provocative Animation of Donald Trump Feels So Familiar;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\">Related: Why &#8216;South Park&#8217;s Latest Provocative Animation of Donald Trump Feels So Familiar<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Wednesday, as <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2025\/08\/south-park-season-27-second-episode-ice-raids-ratings-1236485670\/#recipient_hashed=78aec35d1e6bc497c4e0c821e99fb540eff84a51c9fedea71fe1fbce1fd0949e&amp;recipient_salt=433f4c29304bd8dab09c5de439c213d62acedf45801f6e7accb6c5a856ba49fc&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=Deadline_TVRatings&amp;utm_content=626594_08-13-2025&amp;utm_term=288300?utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=exacttarget&amp;utm_campaign=1755117177-TV+Ratings+Alert&amp;utm_content=626594_8-13-2025&amp;utm_id=626594\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Deadline reported;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Deadline reported<\/a>, Paramount Global\u2014the parent company of Comedy Central and Paramount+, where the Emmy-winning series airs and streams, respectively\u2014released the latest viewership stats for <em>South Park<\/em>\u2019s second episode of the season, and they\u2019re pretty impressive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to Paramount\u2019s numbers, the second episode of the season, titled \u201cGot a Nut,\u201d drew 6.2 million viewers worldwide in just its first three days. That\u2019s a slight jump above \u201cSermon on the \u2018Mount,\u201d the Season 27 premiere, which brought in 6 million viewers in that same time frame. What\u2019s more impressive is that streaming viewership between the two episodes is up a whopping 49 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">These audience numbers have been big enough to make \u201cGot a Nut\u201d the most watched episode of <em>South Park <\/em>since 2018.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While new episodes of <em>South Park <\/em>typically air on Comedy Central on Wednesday nights, the network is instead celebrating \u201c<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/comedy-central-south-park-day-no-new-episode\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:South Park Day;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">South Park Day<\/a>,\u201d as the series premiered on August 13, 1997. <em>South Park <\/em>will return with a new episode on August 20.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mensjournal.com\/entertainment\/south-park-viewership-record-season-27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:\u2018South Park\u2019 Just Set a Historic Viewership Record With Controversial New Season;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">\u2018South Park\u2019 Just Set a Historic Viewership Record With Controversial New Season<\/a> first appeared on Men&#8217;s Journal on Aug 13, 2025<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. 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