Parklife is a single hour film celebrating ten years of the world's most anarchic and controversial cartoon. South Park. Commissioned as the centrepiece to Paramount Comedy's weekend celebration of ten years of the award-winning animation South Park.

South Park began in 1992 when Trey Parker and Matt Stone, then students at the University of Colorado, met in a film class and created an animated short called Jesus vs. Frosty. The crudely made film featured prototypes of the main characters of South Park, including a character resembling Cartman, but referred to as "Kenny", and an unnamed character who resembled Kyle bringing a murderous snowman to life with a magic hat.

In 1995, FOX executive Brian Graden, after seeing the film, commissioned Parker and Stone to create a second short film to send to friends as a video Christmas card. Titled Jesus vs. Santa, it more closely resembled the style of the later series, and featured a martial arts duel and subsequent truce between Jesus and Santa Claus over the true meaning of Christmas.

This video was later featured in the episode "A Very Crappy Christmas" in which Stan, Kyle, Cartman, Kenny and Mr. Hankey "save" Christmas for the town. The video was popular and was widely shared, both by duplication and over the internet. This led to talks to create a series, first with the FOX network, then with Comedy Central.

Since its premiere on August 13, 1997, 153 episodes have been produced over ten seasons and all over the world South Park is infamous for a blunt handling of current events and its pop-culture parody.

PARK LIFE - THE DOCUMENTARY

Park Life is a 1 x 60 documentary of the show featuring super-fans discussing their favourite moments and interviews with creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone. The documentary is hosted by Phill Jupitus with commentary from comedians including Rob Rouse, Jim Jefferies, Brendon Burns, Andre Vincent, Russell Kane and Jenny Ross, writers including David Quantick, Emma Kennedy and Karen Krizanovictz and ardent fans including Dick & Dom, Rob Rouse, Maggot and Anita Rani.

Free @ Last TV also produced the winning episode countdown which was also be introduced across the weekend by Phil Jupitus.