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At long last, we've got some excellent South Park news for everyone...

Firstly, South Park's immediate future looks secure after Matt Stone and Trey Parker agreed to continue producing the series for Comedy Central until Season 15. To quote from the New York Times article that broke this news:

Now, however, Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker and their bosses at Comedy Central, a unit of Viacom’s MTV Networks, are attempting to leapfrog to the vanguard of Hollywood’s transition into Web. In a joint venture that involves millions in up-front cash and a 50-50 split of ad revenues, the network and the two creative partners have agreed to create a hub to spread “South Park”-related material across the Net, mobile platforms, and video games.

The deal, signed Friday, begins with a three-year extension of the show and its creators’ contracts through a 15th season, in the year 2011, and gives Mr. Stone and Mr. Parker sizable raises, both in their salaries and in their guaranteed advances against back-end profits from DVDs, merchandising, syndication and international sales.

Secondly, South Park has enjoyed yet more Emmys success, with the Season 10 episode Make Love, Not Warcraft winning the Creative Arts award for Outstanding Animated Program (for programming less than one hour). That comes two years after having won another Emmy for Best Friends Forever.

Thirdly, and most pertinently, this coming Wednesday marks the return of South Park from its mid-season hiatus. Season 11 kicks off again on October 3rd, with Episode 1108 entitled "Le Petit Tourette". The first details of the episode have just about filtered through, so here's the episode description from South Park Studios:

Cartman discovers the joys of having Tourette’s syndrome. Drunk with the power of saying whatever he wants without getting in trouble for it, he lines up National TV Coverage to take advantage of his new life with no filters.

But there's more... If a mere textual description's not enough for you, here are a couple of short "teasers" for the episode, courtesy of spalliance.net:

This latest episode is due to air this Wednesday October 3rd at 10 PM (ET/PT) on Comedy Central. As always, episode-related guff will follow on this website shortly after the air-date.

UPDATE ! October 1st...

South Park Studios have just released their own short preview clip of the episode, which you can watc.. SHITBALLS! below...