“South Park”: Comedy Central Teasing Season 26 Start Date

Comedy Central is teasing a February 2023 start for the 26th season of South Park with a number of commercials that have been airing all across the network(when I see a legal one, I’ll post it here Update 1/17: See it above). This after longtime South Park voice actor April Stewart also teased a recent recording session just the other day, which adds more credence that a start date could be early February 2023 given that a South Park production cycle for an episode is much shorter than that of say a Family Guy episode which typically takes nine months from start to finish.

What can we expect from this upcoming season? It’s anyone’s guess. Even when Matt and Trey do interviews they seldom lend too many announcements, but we have a lot of questions. The show’s benchmark for success for near 30 seasons has been commentary on current events that in the early part of the show had been through the kids but lately the rest of the cast, mostly Randy, comments on current trends through the eyes of older dudes, which makes sense, given that Matt Stone and Trey Parker have since been marred, divorced, and with kids since the premiere of the show’s first season, so it makes sense that certain tendencies would be seen from Randy’s vantage point and most recently making Cartman less of a villain for everyone else and more of a rebellious kid to his mother.

Synopsis:

The Emmy® and Peabody® Award-winning, animated series, “South Park,” created by comic geniuses Trey Parker and Matt Stone, features the breathtakingly irreverent and ruthlessly funny misadventures of four foul-mouthed, troublemaking young boys in a small town nestled in the Colorado Rockies. It has been praised by the prestigious Peabody® committee as “COMEDY CENTRAL’s notoriously rude, undeniably fearless lampoon of all that is self-important and hypocritical in American life, regardless of race, creed, color or celebrity status.” We couldn’t agree more.

“South Park” continues to surprise even its most devoted fans each and every week. Known for its unbelievably immediate and ruthless responses to world events, “South Park’s” new episodes bring up-to-the-minute news and pop culture icons (including Al Gore, J. Lo, Kanye West, Oprah, Sir Elton John, Tom Cruise, John Travolta, and P. Diddy) to the town of South Park for social commentary and good old-fashioned ridicule.

“South Park” launched on August 13, 1997 and is based on the animated short entitled, “The Spirit of Christmas.” Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are Executive Producers, along with Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bill Hader, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are Producers. “South Park’s” Web site is www.SouthPark.cc.com.