South Park Premiere Delivers 6 Million Viewers, Best 18-49 Share Since 1999
The South Park premiere's little dings at President Trump put up some big numbers.
The animated series' Season 27 opener amassed 5.9 million total cross-platform viewers (in Live+3), while delivering its biggest linear season premiere share of the 18-49 crowd (9.2, up 68% vs. last season) since October 1999, when Season 3C opened.
South Park also ranked as the No. 1 telecast across all of cable last Wednesday.
Tonight, Comedy Central is serving up a rerun of said season opener, titled "Sermon on the 'Mount," with the next new episode not airing until Wednesday, Aug. 6 at 10/9c (and streaming next day on Paramount+).
The White House famously released a scathing response to the Season 27 premiere, which portrayed the current President of the United States as a whiny-voiced, flappy-headed, Satan-loving, small-membered dictator — before cutting to a deepfake "pro-Trump" PSA which featured a nude POTUS equipped with tiny talking genitals.
"This show hasn't been relevant for over 20 years and is hanging on by a thread with uninspired ideas in a desperate attempt for attention," read the official statement from the official government institution. "President Trump has delivered on more promises in just six months than any other president in our country's history — and no fourth-rate show can derail President Trump's hot streak."