South Park Sets Sept. 16 Season 29 Premiere as Trump Backlash Drove a Year of Satire
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Updated · Hollywood Reporter · May 21
South Park Sets Sept. 16 Season 29 Premiere as Trump Backlash Drove a Year of Satire
5 articles · Updated · Hollywood Reporter · May 21
Sept. 16 is the premiere date for South Park season 29, a six-episode run that Trey Parker and Matt Stone said they will only start shaping in early September.
Parker said the creators had planned just one Trump-focused episode, but public outrage and reactions from Trump supporters pushed them to keep targeting the president "every single week."
That escalation helped define seasons 27 and 28, which drew record ratings and headlines after the show's Trump depiction prompted a White House rebuke and internal fights over censoring explicit imagery.
The latest Trump-heavy run also unfolded amid a tense Paramount streaming-rights dispute; Parker said the show was nearly done before Park County landed a reported $1.5 billion deal hours before season 27 premiered.
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