Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: South Park Reveals Why Their New Episodes Have Been Slow to Arrive

South Park’s new episodes have been slow to arrive...so what’s the reason...and will it continue?

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

Speaker 2 (00:03):
With so much going on in the world of politics
on a daily basis, the new season of South Park
has been making a massive splash with every new episode,
and with news evolving at the speed of light, Fans
have been struggling with Trey Parker Matt Stone's decision to
not air new episodes on a weekly basis, but it
looks like they're going to have to get used to it.
The first three episodes debuted on a bi weekly schedule,
and Deadline reports that the seven remaining installments of season

(00:25):
twenty seven will likely follow suit. A source says what
they're doing means this year's episodes need more time than
usual to put together to finish. So much happens right
now in just one day, no one's going to sacrifice
getting it right, even if we have to push getting
it to air, and if that makes the season longer,
so be it. In short, in order to react to
the news as an unfold, south Park means that extra
week to get the script done and execute the animation.

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And each episode, by the way, has been a viral
sensation and a streaming hit, so Paramount Plus happy to
wait a little bit longer. The next episode arrived September third.

Speaker 1 (00:56):
That's direct from Hollywood