Following The Acolyte, it’s RIP Star Wars as the entire season of Skeleton Crew on Disney+ has failed to make the Nielsen ratings charts.
Not one episode has made it to the Nielsen charts including the two-episode premiere, and with all eight episodes available, it also means no one jumped on late to binge-watch the series.
If this isn’t a clear indication that fans no longer care about Star Wars, I don’t know what is. Skeleton Crew actually isn’t all that bad of a series. It’s fun, and it’s light years better than The Acolyte. However, let’s be honest, Disney and Lucasfilm haven’t done a good job with Star Wars.
As I’ve gone over, Disney+ automatically enables Nielsen tracking in user accounts, which is the industry standard for ratings. Samba TV also hasn’t once reported on the numbers, again, which I am guessing is at the request of Disney because the ratings are so bad, as Disney is an investor in Samba TV.
What are the ratings?
Coming in at #10, the bottom of the Nielsen charts for the week Episode 8 of Skeleton Crew was released is Apple TV’s Silo with 396 million minutes. As Skeleton Crew missing from the chart, the final episode is obviously less than 396.
Nielsen also measures ALL the episodes viewed within a given week’s timeframe, so again, that means no one binge-watched Skeleton Crew with all the episodes released.
For comparison, the last episode of The Mandalorian Season 2 was watched for 1336 million minutes (1.336 billion minutes!) — and that is with half as much time measured. That means more than 70% of fans have stopped watching Star Wars on Disney+!
What’s next for Star Wars?
Disney+
For Disney+, Andor Season 2 gets released on April 22, 2025 which ends the series. Likewise, Ahsoka Season 2 is also in the works but that now that is thought to be getting canceled after its second season. Disney also hasn’t announced any new live-action Star Wars TV shows for Disney+. The Mandalorian also looks to be done as Season 4 has apparently been scrapped in favor of The Mandalorian & Grogu movie.
Movies
On the big screen, all that is confirmed is The Mandalorian & Grogu out on May 22, 2026. While the new Daisy Ridley Star Wars: New Jedi Order movie is said to be happening, it’s on its fourth writer and has no release date. The other Star Wars movies also have no release dates, which is said to include the James Mangold origins of The Force flick, and the new Simon Kinberg trilogy.
Kathleen Kennedy’s graceful exit coming soon?
Interestingly enough, a Lucasfilm exec behind The Acolyte has exited Lucasfilm and has been replaced by one of Kinberg’s crew, Derek Hoffman, who is now the new VP of Development at Lucasfilm. I’m guessing Kathleen Kennedy will make a “graceful exit” in 2026 when Bob Iger leaves Disney. Maybe Kinberg will take over.
