Ratings Are In: South Park Season 27 Episode Two Doubles Overnight Ratings From Season Premiere
The second episode of South Park‘s 27th season, titled “Got a Nut,” has achieved a major ratings success, nearly doubling the viewership of its season premiere. The episode, which aired on Comedy Central on Wednesday, August 6, brought in 838,000 viewers for its initial broadcast, a significant increase from the 430,000 who tuned in for the premiere.
This strong performance made “Got a Nut” the third-most-viewed South Park episode in the last three seasons. The episode also dominated the crucial adults 18-49 demographic, securing the number two spot in primetime with 455,000 viewers, surpassed only by Big Brother on CBS.
The season has been a ratings hit from the start. The premiere episode, “Sermon on the Mount,” also performed exceptionally well on streaming, accumulating 5.9 million views on Paramount+ and other platforms within just three days of its release. The show’s strong numbers have also had a positive ripple effect, boosting viewership for the animated comedy Digman!, which airs immediately following South Park.
There's got to be some kind of twist that's going to happen with this. I don't know if they're setting up an April Fool's joke now or what's going on, but it seems too strange that they'd suddenly reverse on doing a fourth and fifth season after the show was already renewed and they were even just talking about working on those seasons like a couple months ago or something. Or maybe the two episodes yet to release will secretly somehow each be like a "season" in themselves?