South Park is preparing for Season 27.
The animated show will return to Comedy Central, two years on from Season 26. It will launch on Wednesday July 9.
Season 26, which featured six episodes, premiered on the Paramount cable network in February 2023 and ran through March. There were three specials, written and directed by Trey Parker, that aired between October 2023 and March 2024.
The new season has been teased in a trailer that you can watch above. It includes Diddy seemingly chasing the South Park kids and/or an alien through space with a gun, a battle with Canada, dirty toilet bowls, multiple plane crashes. It’s not clear how many episodes have been produced.
“It’s ok, Sharon, I’m just going to do some ketamine and f*ck around with the government a little, see ya,” says Stan’s dad Randy Marsh in the trailer.
The series, which revolves around Stan, Kyle, Cartman and Kenny, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2022. It was created by Parker and Matt Stone, who exec produce alongside Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II.
The move comes after Stone and Parker’s untitled comedy feature, produced by Kendrick Lamar, was moved from 2025 to 2026.
Parker and Trey signed a deal with Comedy Central in 2021, reportedly for around $900M, to extend South Park through Season 30, running through 2027.
The pair revealed last year why the series was delayed. They said they wanted to avoid the 2024 Presidential elections and were “waiting for Paramount to figure all their sh*t out”.
“We’ve tried to do South Park through four or five presidential elections, and it is such a hard thing to—it’s such a mind scramble, and it seems like it takes outsized importance,” Stone told Vanity Fair.
Parker added, “Obviously, it’s f***ing important, but it kind of takes over everything and we just have less fun. I don’t know what more we could possibly say about Trump.”
