'South Park' NSA surveillance spoof gets big ratings

<script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><!-- 2 --><ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display:inline-block;width:336px;height:280px" data-ad-client="ca-pub-4973891917352186" data-ad-slot="3079724116"></ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><a href="http://insidetv.ew.com/">http://insidetv.ew.com</a><br /><img alt="south-park.jpg" src="http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/i/2013/09/26/south-park.jpg" /><br /><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Park</em>. It’s the <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">17th </em>season. And yet Wednesday night’s premiere delivered the animated comedy’s biggest rating in years.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Comedy Central hit came back to 4.3 million viewers across three telecasts, with the first airing delivering the most viewers for the show since 2011 and the highest young male demo ratings since 2010.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;">The <a href="http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s17e01-let-go-let-gov" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgb(255, 94, 153); color: #24bcc8; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">episode titled</a> “Let Go, Let Gov” mocked the NSA’s mass surveillance scandal (clip below). In the episode, Cartman played the role of an Edward Snowden-style whistleblower who infiltrates the NSA and rants about privacy violations — yet can’t stop revealing his every thought online to anybody who will listen.</div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; line-height: 20px; padding: 0px 0px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Park</em> fans had a longer-than-usual wait for new episodes this year, given that creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s decision to produce fewer episodes (10 per year). On Sunday, <em style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">South Park</em> also won its fifth Emmy for outstanding animated program.<span id="more-145916" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div><div class="kicker-link" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #454545; font-family: arial; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 700 !important; line-height: 20px; padding: 5px 12px 12px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: black; width: 368px;"><div style="padding: 4px;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="293" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:southparkstudios.com:34152458-dcdd-4fbd-9852-d2bfd4878d48" width="360"></iframe></div></div></div><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-4973891917352186"; /* 1 */ google_ad_slot = "6623240111"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; //--></script><script src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script></div>

'South Park' NSA surveillance spoof gets big ratings 'South Park' NSA surveillance spoof gets big ratings

http://insidetv.ew.com South Park . It’s the  17th  season. And yet Wednesday night’s premiere delivered the animated comedy’s biggest ratin...

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