Viewers Watched 30 Billion Minutes of ‘South Park’ in 2019 | THR News - video Dailymotion

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The 23rd season of ‘South Park’ finished as the top-rated comedy on cable for the seventh consecutive year. But that's only the tip of the iceberg in terms of just how much the show was watched in 2019.

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00:00Ah, isn't this nice, you guys?

00:02Clean, fresh air, soothing sounds,

00:04just us boys in Star Trek ascendancy.

00:07The 23rd season of South Park finished

00:08as the top-rated comedy on cable

00:10for the seventh consecutive year.

00:12And according to Comedy Central,

00:13viewers watched a staggering 30 billion minutes

00:16of the long-running series on Linear TV in 2019.

00:19That figure, which includes first-run episodes

00:21and repeats, jumped by 36% over 2018,

00:25and is the equivalent of more than 57,000 years.

00:29Wow.

00:30You gotta help me.

00:32With what?

00:33With my baby girl.

00:34She's everything to me, bro.

00:35And that doesn't even include streaming.

00:37The Viacom CBS network says season 23,

00:40which wrapped December 11th,

00:41drove 113 million views on digital and social platforms,

00:46up 53% from season 22.

00:48Hi, we're Crimson Dawn,

00:50and this is a song I wrote about

00:53living out in the country on a farm.

00:55For season 23, South Park averaged

00:571.4 million viewers per episode,

00:59including three days of delayed viewing.

01:01The 30 billion minutes of viewing this year

01:03on Comedy Central likely put South Park

01:05in the upper echelons of viewing.

01:07In 2018, Netflix users watched

01:0832.6 billion minutes of Friends,

01:11and 52 billion minutes of The Office.

01:13For more on this story, head to THR.com.

01:15Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News,

01:17I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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