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Industry: Email Alert RSS Feed'South Park' Episode Lives; Scientology Story Line Thrives Online as Comedy Central Looks the Other Way.(TV Currents)
TelevisionWeek, April, 2006
Byline: James Hibberd The now-infamous Scientology episode of "South Park'' is out of the closet. Since Comedy Central pulled the repeat of the episode "Trapped in the Closet'' from its schedule last month, the episode has nevertheless been available to viewers online, where fans posted it in droves on file-sharing sites.
On YouTube.com alone, versions of "Closet'' posted during the past two months have generated more than 700,000 views, according to data on the site last Thursday. An online petition on ChefGate.info garnered more than 5,000 signatures to protest the network's pulling the episode and linked to the episode on Xenutv.com, an anti-Scientology site. Though big media companies such as NBC Universal and CBS Corp. have thrown their weight...
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