Star Wars Rebels Renewed for a Third Season!
Star Wars Rebels has just been renewed for a third season a little less than halfway through its second. To commemorate this announcement, a Star Wars-centric issue of TV Guide will be released this Thursday.
From the official Star Wars website:
Disney XD has ordered a third season of Lucasfilm’s animated series Star Wars Rebels, which follows a ragtag group of heroes that dare to strike back against Imperial forces. The third season is currently in production and scheduled to premiere in 2016, it was announced today by Marc Buhaj, senior vice president, Programming and General Manager, Disney XD.
In making the announcement, Buhaj said, “We are proud to bring our audience a third season of Star Wars Rebels, a series that has resonated across generations.” Buhaj added, “The creative team behind the series continues to do a brilliant job in delivering on the key tenets that fans have come to expect from a Star Wars property including adventure, hope and the battle between good vs. evil.”
To date, Star Wars Rebels ranks as Disney XD’s #2 series in Total Viewers (1.3 million), Kids 6-11, Boys 6-11 and Boys 2-11. It’s the channel’s #1 program among Adults 18-49 and Men 18-49. In the most recent quarter tabulated (3Q15), Star Wars Rebels reached over 48 million unique Total Viewers in 157 countries/territories and in 30 languages. Star Wars Rebels has also generated nearly 4 million video starts on WATCH Disney XD.
The show will air for three more episodes before taking a Winter hiatus. After this, the remaining twelve episodes of the second season will air early on in 2016.
Grant has been a fan of Star Wars for as long as he can remember, having seen every movie on the big screen. When he’s not hard at work with his college studies, he keeps himself busy by reporting on all kinds of Star Wars news for SWNN and general movie news on the sister site, Movie News Net. He served as a frequent commentator on SWNN’s The Resistance Broadcast.
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This is great news! I love Rebels and can’t wait to see how the story of the show unfolds!
Cool beans man.
MAKE IT AN HOUR LONG SERIES!!! THESE EPISODES GO BY WAY TOO FAST!!!
They really do. I didn’t think that the episodes of the first season went by too fast, but season 2 episodes feel like they’re over in a second for some reason.
Dude, must be some Jedi mind trick. 😉
I agree season 1’s episodes didn’t feel this short or rushed. These episodes fly by and when the episode start wrapping up I’m all “WHAT!?!?” They really need to make the episodes longer and flesh out their stories a lot more
I never really got into the Clone Wars, but I really enjoy Rebels. It really sends out that Star Wars vibe. I’m hooked!
You MUST watch The Clone Wars. By season 5, that show was a work of art.
Really? I think it reminded me of the prequels too much. I’ll give it another try then. But first, I’m going to enjoy the hell out of TFA! 😉
I have been pretty underwhelmed by this season. There have been too many side stories rather than actually moving the plot along.
If season one taught us anything, it’s that episodes that seem like pointless side stories really are more important than they initially seem and come back into play later. Like how Droids in Distress and Fighter Flight ended up playing into the season finale.
Having a spraypainted Tie Fighter be meaningful? That is a bit of a stretch but, sure. I don’t know, I am not as captivated in season as I was in lasts but they still have time to improve, at least to me.
hope new episodes will be better then the last 5, cause my interest is really starting dissapear
I wonder if they track itunes, amazon, etc, I no longer watch TV…Live TV anymore, haven’t for a few years now. I use iTunes, Amazon, Hulu, etc for season passes/live and day after viewing, I’m sure i’m not the only one.
You’re not the only one. I barely watch TV in general for the most part. I watch Rebels through iTunes and it’s really the only show on at the moment that I care to keep up with until the new season of The X-Files is released.
I hope it really picks up in the third season like Clone Wars did since I’m sick and tired of all the filler episodes. I’m also wondering if they really are going to have a TFA or Rogue One related episode?
comments section seems to forget the last episode that aired.
I hope something significant occurs in season 2. So far, we’ve gotten one filler episode after another.
Ahsoka might die.
No not yet we have yet to build time on her as a whole now that she is older i think she needs to die in the mid season finale along with Rex and maybe Zeb
Hopefully this season improves the animation just like The Clone Wars season 3 did.
excellent news, i love the show. though i suspect that unless the show was rock bottom in the ratings disney was going to keep it for the full run. i mean its cannon, so it has to finish(though i thought the same about clone wars too).
This season has been slower and more personal, and while there have been filler episodes, the last was just pure Star Wars. I hthink we will see the TESB factor soon. I like this season more than the first, and i think I will like it even more after the season ends and I’ve had time to think over it, much like I did with Season 2 of Legend of Korra.
It doesn’t hurt that Book 2 of Legend of Korra had a 2-parter which were arguably the best episodes of Avatar ever. We need an Avatar/Star Wars mash up!