The web just got a whole lot funnier as the guys behind South Park have made every episode of their hit show available for free online. That’s right — every. episode. (Take that Hulu, and your five weeks’ worth of shows window). South Park Digital Studios will house everything South Park including all the episodes (not embeddable — boo!), 3,000 video clips (embeddable — yay!) and spearhead other digital initiatives.
The studio is part of a joint venture between creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker and Comedy Central, with the two splitting ad revenue 50/50. The site continues with MTV Networks’ strategy of launching many vertical sites around individual brands. (Disclosure: I used to work for Viacom).
In addition to housing South Park content, the Digital Studios will also serve as a launchpad for other animated projects Stone and Parker come up with.
See our previous South Park-goes-online coverage here and here.
[...] South Park episodes ever created for free. You can find them all at http://www.southparkstudios.com. As NewTeeVee notes, it’s a pity you can’t embed the entire episodes (you can, however, embed the 3000 [...]
[...] NETWORKS has made every single “South Park” episode available for free on the South Park Studios website. The extensive release covers all 12 seasons and over 150 [...]
[...] NewTeeVee is reporting that the web just got a whole lot funnier as the guys behind South Park have made every episode of their hit show available for free online. That’s right — every. episode. South Park Digital Studios will house everything South Park including all the episodes (not embeddable — boo!), 3,000 video clips (embeddable — yay!) and spearhead other digital initiatives. [...]
[...] מדווחים שמאט סטון וטריי פרקר, יוצרי סדרת האנימציה סאות’ פארק, [...]
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While this is very cool conceptually, why isn’t this accessible outside of the states? I understand the rights issues around paid content, but if they’re giving it away for free, why does it matter where the person who’s giving it away for free is living?
[...] Every episode of South Park online: NewTeeVee [...]
@Brian Hogg, have you been able to figure out the answer to your question? What does it look like when you try to access it from out of the states? Does it give you a notice or something?
Had no problems watching the clip above and on the SouthParkStudios.com website from the UK.
Ads and all.
The videos are not available to Canadians yet. Typical.