南方公園17季發佈

南方公園今年將會縮減成10集，並且在9月25日開播。

好久好久啊！今年大家得多點耐心等到9月了，雖然縮減成10集，
但是看時間點可能會推出好久沒見的耶誕特集...各位我們到時候再見囉！



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Fortifying the Empire ‘South Park’ Built
Published: January 27, 2013

說到娛樂圈裡的成功故事，最精彩的莫非是這兩位來自科羅拉多州的男生，麥特史東
和崔帕克，他們用紙剪的小人偶製成動畫，用它們稱霸了有線電視，網路、線上影音
和百老匯。

  When it comes to success stories in the entertainment world, it doesn't
get much better than the one about a pair of regular guys from Colorado, Matt
Stone and Trey Parker, who took cutout paper dolls, animated them and
triumphed on cable television, on the Web, at the multiplex and on Broadway.

上週，史東抵達了紐約 Chelsea社區的咖啡廳時，把自己裹得密不透風，就像阿尼一
樣，老是在南方公園中穿著那件橘色大外套。他隔日就要出發前往倫敦，進行「摩爾
門經」的第四次演出。

  Last week, Mr. Stone arrived at a coffee shop in the Chelsea neighborhood
of New York so bundled up that he resembled Kenny, who always shows up on
"South Park" encased in a big orange parka. He was leaving the next day for
London, where the fourth production of "The Book of Mormon" will soon begin
a run.

在這16季、 237集之中，我們跟著南方公園四個動畫粗糙且對話粗俗的小男孩發生的
大小故事，深入評論過各種文化的中心。同時，兩位製作人也幫助喜劇頻道一躍
成為大型頻道，製作了四套影集，情境喜劇，甚至還以賣座的「摩爾門經」登上了百
老匯舞台；該劇是由Scott Rudin和Anne Garefino發行，Robert Lopez製作。

  Over the course of 16 seasons and 237 episodes, “South Park,” an assault
on good taste built on the misadventures of four crudely animated and crudely
spoken boys, has entered every pore of the culture. In the meantime, the two
creators have helped put Comedy Central on the map, made four feature films,
produced a sitcom and landed a Broadway hit with “Book of Mormon,” produced
by Scott Rudin and Anne Garefino and created along with Robert Lopez.

目前史東和帕克推出的南方公園遊戲版即將完成。他們近日宣布將耗資３億美金，成
立一間製作公司「Important 工作室」。

  Now Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker are about to finish a video game version of
“South Park,” and they recently announced that they were forming a production
company called Important Studios, valued at $300 million.

南方公園的成功，就是娛樂圈的教材：只要演出人們想看的東西，觀眾就會找上門。
無論基本觀眾如何改變，影視平台如何變化都會是如此。

The success of “South Park” is a stark lesson in the fundamentals of
entertainment: if you tell stories that people want to hear, the audience
will find you. This is true no matter how fundamentally the paradigms shift,
or how many platforms evolve.

「我們做的夠久了，知道這些題材都是隨波逐流。」史東這麼說。

“We've been doing it long enough to figure out that content will ride on
top of whatever wave comes along,” Mr. Stone said.

有人認為他們會在這些功成名就，會開始走低調路線－這真的發生了。
別擔心，他們不會真的殺死那個每集都掛掉的阿尼。

但是本來每年有兩個半季，各7集，總共14集的南方公園，
今年將會縮減成10集，並且在9月25日開播。

You might think that after all they've accomplished, they would be ready to
step back a bit, and this is essentially true. Don’t worry, they aren’t
going to actually kill Kenny, who is ritually sacrificed in every episode.
But “South Park,” which generally has been produced in two batches of seven
episodes for a total of 14 every year, will be cut back to a single run of 10
episodes, beginning on Sept. 25.