Hulu’s session at TCA Saturday presented original shows “The Hot Housewives of Orlando,” premiering July 19; “Quick Draw,” returning Aug. 7; and “East Los High,” the teen drama that began its second season this week and whose third season pickup was announced.
But their big news had to do with bringing the entire catalog of “South Park” to Hulu — all 244 episode from 17 seasons until season 18 premieres on Comedy Central Sept. 24. Fans will have next-day access of episodes on Hulu this fall, as will the South Park studios website.
Accordingly, co-creator Trey Parker said, “We want everyone to know that South Park Studios will now work.”
I asked the Parker and Matt Stone why, at a point when the’ve turned out one of the most popular musicals on Broadway with “Book of Mormon” and after some hit movies, continue to stay with the crude cut-out characters of “South Park” to primarily express themselves.
” I think you can probably go back and find interviews where we were, like, ‘Well, it’s not like we are going to do it when we are 40,’ you know,” says Parker, 44.
That’s was the case for bands like Rolling Stones and the Who found themselves, saying they’d stop before they got old, only to keep going.
Similarly, Parker says, “I think we both feel that ‘South Park’ is sort of the band, you know. ‘South Park’ is sort of the we go into the studio once a year, and we make an album and each episode is a song.
“What we love about it is that we still write and direct every episode ourselves,” he says. “It really is, I think, the nuts and bolts of everything and the band where the band is at the time. So it would be pretty jarring to live without it.”
Parker said he feels it has already “been a pretty big break, actually, from last season to this, and it’s been pretty weird not being around.”
They said they were going to get to work on the new season Sunday.