“South Park” is bidding adieu to its short-lived however buzzy Season 27.
The sixth episode of the 12 months, which airs Wednesday on Comedy Central, marks the primary episode of Season 28, a spokesperson from the community confirmed to The Instances. (The episode will stream on Paramount+ Thursday.)
The explanation behind the choice to finish Season 27, which was initially anticipated to have 10 episodes, is unclear. However followers of the long-running satire will nonetheless get 4 extra episodes this 12 months, if “South Park” co-creator Matt Stone and Trey Parker stick with the schedule they outlined. Followers had been speculating concerning the begin of a brand new season after seeing tv listings that coded Wednesday’s episode as the primary of Season 28.
The brand new episode, titled “Twisted Christian,” follows a possessed Cartman, who “would be the key to stopping the Antichrist,” in accordance its temporary description. A brief teaser additionally reveals the scholars of South Park Elementary partaking with the viral “67” slang, an basically meaningless phrase that has taken over Technology Alpha.
The latest episodes have been drawing robust viewership and have, as all the time, poked enjoyable at topical points and political figures together with President Trump, immigration raids, tariffs and the FCC. Even Paramount, which purchased the worldwide streaming rights to “South Park” this summer time in a $1.5-billion deal, has been the butt of a number of jokes.
Season 27 had an uncommon cadence of episodes, with the primary two arriving on a weekly schedule, then biweekly earlier than the arrival of the latest episode (and the obvious finale of the season), which aired three weeks in a while Sept. 25.
The second episode drew criticism for its parody of Charlie Kirk, the slain political influencer, regardless of the episode airing weeks earlier than his loss of life. Comedy Central, which is owned by Paramount, introduced it won’t air reruns of the second episode of the newest season after Kirk was fatally shot Sept. 10 in Utah. The episode can nonetheless be discovered on Paramount+.
The ultimate episode of Season 27 was the primary to air after Kirk’s loss of life, however Parker and Stone advised the Denver Put up the delay was unrelated to its content material: “Nobody pulled the episode, nobody censored us, and you recognize we’d say so if true.” The pair issued a press release on Sept. 17 saying the episode wasn’t completed in time.
Future episodes of “South Park” will air each two weeks by Dec. 10.
Instances TV editor Maira Garcia contributed to this report.
