Paramount has unveiled that the premiere of “South Park” Season 27 has been pushed from its original release on July 9 to July 23. The season premiere will air on Comedy Central at 10 p.m. ET/PT.

The creators primarily attribute the delay to the merger between Paramount Global, which is the parent company of Comedy Central, and Skydance Media. Although the announcement for the merger came a long time back — sometime last summer — the details of the merger haven’t been consolidated yet.

South Park fans who have waited for more than two years to get a new season of the hit animated comedy, will have to wait a little bit longer — the Season 27 premiere on Comedy Central, originally slated for July 9,