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South Park renewed through 2016

"SOUTH PARK" RENEWED THROUGH SEASON 20!
CREATORS TREY PARKER AND MATT STONE
AGREE TO KEEP THE ICONIC SERIES IN ORIGINAL EPISODES THROUGH 2016

NEW YORK, November 16, 2011 – Trey Parker and Matt Stone have reached a new deal with COMEDY CENTRAL to extend cable's longest-running animated series, "South Park," it was announced today by Michele Ganeless, president, COMEDY CENTRAL. The deal for three additional seasons ensures the top-rated Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning series will remain in original episodes through 2016 and a milestone 20th season. Parker and Stone will continue to write, direct and edit every episode of "South Park," as they have since the premiere of the series in 1997.

"The collective genius of Matt and Trey knows no bounds," said Ganeless. "Week after week and season after season they continue to surprise and delight 'South Park' fans, and that includes all of us here at COMEDY CENTRAL. We're thrilled that the adventures of Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Cartman will continue through 2016."

"COMEDY CENTRAL has been our home for 15 years and we love working there," said Parker and Stone. "'South Park' is a blast and we can't wait to make more."

Recently voted "The Greatest Animated TV Series" in a poll conducted by Entertainment Weekly, "South Park," which wraps its 15th season tonight, averaged over 3.5 million viewers per episode during its most recent season (most current data), in which it was the #1 show in all of television among Men 18-24 in Wednesday Prime and the #1 show in cable among Adults 18-49, Adults 18-34, Adults 18-24, Men 18-34 and Men 18-24 in Wednesday Prime. The series has also accumulated 35 million fans on Facebook, making it the most-liked series in cable and the #3 series in all of television.

"South Park" launched on August 13, 1997 and premiered its 15th season on April 27, 2011. Co-creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are executive producers, along with Anne Garefino, of the Emmy® and Peabody Award-winning "South Park." Frank C. Agnone II is the supervising producer. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers. "South Park's" Web site is www.southparkstudios.com. The series airs Wednesday nights at 10:00 p.m. and repeats later that night at midnight (all times ET/PT).

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The Book of Mormon to be made into a film

Broadway hit The Book of Mormon is to be made into a film, its writers have confirmed. "Hopefully it will have a big run and a big tour and then we can do the movie in several years," Trey Parker, who wrote the musical with fellow South Park creator Matt Stone and Avenue Q co-writer Robert Lopez, told EW.com

The multiple Tony-winning comedy-musical, about a pair of Mormon missionaries in Uganda, has been playing to sold-out houses and a national tour is set to begin in Denver next summer.

Parker and Stone, who are currently writing the remaining episodes of the current season of South Park, have previously made four films: 1993's Cannibal! The Musical, 1997's Orgazmo, 1999's South Park: Bigger Longer & Uncut, and 2004's Team America: World Police. The latter two were produced by Scott Rudin (No Country for Old Men, The Social Network) who also helped develop The Book of Mormon. "The great thing is," said Stone, "a lot of Broadway teams would have to go team up with a Hollywood producer and bring on a Hollywood director, but Trey's a director and Scott's a great producer. We've all made movies. So it's kind of cool, it can stay in the same family."

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Scientologists spent a long time investigating South Park for making fun of them

Suggesting that stories of the average Scientologist’s legendary sense of humor may have been somewhat overstated (at least at levels below OT IV, when every Scientologist completes their Comedy Auditing Trials), former Church of Scientology executive Marty Rathbun has revealed via leaked internal documents that the organization targeted South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone for a lengthy period of time following 2005’s “Trapped In The Closet.” The episode—which suggested Scientology was a scam based on a fantasy concocted by a sci-fi writer, scurrilously mocking Scientology’s origin and core beliefs by writing them down and then saying them out loud—sparked an investigation into the duo by the Church’s covert Office of Special Affairs operatives, who spent well over a year looking for information that could be used against them. This, they believed, would discredit Parker and Stone in the public eye, and validate Scientology as a totally legitimate religion with nothing sinister about it at all.

According to those documents, Scientology operatives staked out the South Park production offices to compile personal information on the staff, and even concocted schemes to infiltrate the writers’ room using a Church plant who’d worked for Troma Entertainment’s Lloyd Kaufman. Through that mole, the Church established “leads” on several friends of Parker and Stone—including then-married couple John Stamos and Rebecca Romijn—whom they also targeted for “PRCs” (public records checks) and “special collections,” which Rathbun explains to the Village Voice is a Scientology code word for digging in the trash and looking for anything they can use against you, be it phone records and bank statements or even empty bottles of liquor and food containers that could help them “figure out your diet.” Unfortunately for the Church of Scientology, they were apparently thwarted in their attempts to dig through Parker and Stone’s trash. Thus, they were unable to put together the detailed description of their diets that would prove, once and for all, that the Church of Scientology is not a creepy cult built on subterfuge and intimidation tactics. Without it, the case is still somewhat open.

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Nine Things Trey Parker and Matt Stone Learned in 15 Seasons of South Park

Somewhere between sentient feces, Helen Keller musicals, and the tale of one Scrotie McBoogerballs, South Park went from culty cable series to one of the major forces in American comedy, and its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, became masters of the epic puppet action film (Team America: World Police) as well as Broadway (The Book of Mormon). But one thing remains constant: The still crudely drawn grade-school stars always learn a valuable lesson at the end of every episode, even if that lesson is something subversive or gross or politically ambivalent or, ideally, all three. “That always ends up being the last thing we put in the show,” says Parker of the moral. The lessons tend to just emerge as he and Stone write the episode, they say. Sure, they’ve taught us about gnomes who steal underpants and the dangers of being an Apple fanboy, but Parker and Stone have learned a few things themselves along the way — and they'll be imparting plenty more wisdom when the show returns next week, on October 5.

9. You're your own worst critic.

Parker and Stone both say that critic and fan responses to episodes often surprise them, but none more so than "Passion of the Jew." "We thought it was crap," Parker says. "We came to work two days later, and people loved it, and we're like, 'Whaaaa? People love that piece of shit?'" He says they often forget the meta-jokes that framed the episodes — the jokes that come up early in the process of putting an episode together — aren't funny to them after a few days. "It happened in the World of Warcraft episode, too," he says. "I thought it was junk, but I forgot about the conceit." Stone has a slightly different take on their own self-analysis. By the end of making an episode, he says, "We're really tired."

8. You can be a little meta. But only a little. (And only with Cartman.)

"Cartman started realizing he's in a TV show," Parker admits. The first big instance of Cartman slightly breaking the boundaries of the show came in season six, Parker says, when Cartman needs to exorcise Kenny's soul from his body. The episode cuts to him at an abortion clinic, zinging a one-liner that only really makes sense in the format of a show. "He knew the cut happened, he knew it was a joke in a show," Parker laughs. "He knew he was being filmed," Stone adds. "You can do it a little bit, but too much and it's like, okay, guys, get the fuck over yourselves.'"

7. Victories come from unexpected places.

"I like tacos and burritos."

One of South Park's more absurd episodes features Cartman channeling a bizarre Jennifer Lopez character through his hand. At the end of the episode, the hand character flutters away — and Parker and Stone say that was the actual high point of the episode. "How do you animate, in our style, that?!" Parker says, opening and fluttering his hand over and over. "We were so stuck on that." Stone says they went through several test animations before landing on the one in the episode (at 19:48), which both he and Parker call "so sweet."

6. Don't be afraid to surprise yourself.

Last June's final episode — "You're Getting Old" — turned the world of South Park on its head by going after cynicism, with Stan discovering that his critical gaze was alienating him from everyone he cared about. It set off rumors that Parker and Stone were signaling they were done. "We're making fun of Kevin James and Adam Sandler … But we have to include ourselves in there, too," Stone says. "How long can you keep making those movies? Well, that's us, too," Parker says. "How long can you keep doing this?" Their contract goes for two more seasons.