Matt & Trey have signed a three year contract extension for South Park, for three more 14 episode seasons, bringing the total season count up to 15 and keeping new episodes on the air up through 2011.

The deal is worth 75 million, and also gives them 50% of the profits on South Park digital media, such as episodes on iTunes and cellphone downloadables as well as 50% of the ad revenue that South Park generates for the Comedy Central website.

Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070828/tv_nm/southpark_dc

I think it's better now than it was back then. I can't watch a lot of episodes from the first 2-3 seasons anymore cuz it's mostly just fart jokes. The show has gotten a lot more clever.

Tebor wrote:

Black Zarak wrote:

Personally, I think they're just a little bit jealous of a show that stole their thunder by being another really borderline stretching of what is acceptable on TV animated show that is now blowing their creation out of the water (cmon, it is: South Park may have been here first but Family Guy is way more popular and will probably still be so when South Park is in its grave.)

Personally, I think you're just WAY too defensive of stuff you like. I love Family Guy and I loved 300, and I still found the South Park parodies of both to be hilarious. The problem here is that you love Family Guy the way Southerners love The Jesus. And when Family Guy or The Simpsons or South Park make a joke about The Jesus, it doesn't matter how funny or clever it is, those Southerners get all uppity and riled because someone dared to make a joke about The Jesus. And see, that's what you're like with Family Guy. You seriously need to relax. Nothing is so sacred that it can't be satirized.

Secondly, you can't really compare the success of South Park and the success of Family Guy. One is on a network, the other is on cable. One has a clearly defined season that has The Simpsons for a lead-in and gets advertised during the Super Bowl, the other has a 14 episode season that airs in two 7 episode segments during random spring and fall months and you just have to kinda know when it's on. If you want to compare South Park to another cartoon, compare it to anything on Adult Swim. Unsuprisingly, it draws higher ratings than any of the Adult Swim shows.

And I really don't think the South Park guys are jealous. Maybe they are, I don't know. But they have a pretty sweet deal going right now. They only have to make 14 episodes a year and they get a ridiculous paycheck for it. Every few years they say they don't want to do the show anymore so they can focus on making movies, and every few years Comedy Central throws more and more money at them to stay, because the vast majority of their programming sucks while South Park still draws big ratings.