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The season one finale of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobi drew a five-day Wednesday through Sunday audience of 1.8 million U.S. households, which is 20% higher than the Wednesday through Sunday five-day pull for The Book of Boba Fett finale, which clocked 1.5M U.S. households. The data comes from Samba TV, which…

Moses Ingram, fresh from starring in Disney+’s Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi, has joined the Apple TV+ and Endeavor Content limited series Lady in the Lake. Ingram, who scored an Emmy nomination for her role in Netflix's The Queen's Gambit, will star alongside Natalie Portman in the series, which comes from Alma…

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about the Season 1 finale of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. The season finale of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Obi-Wan Kenobi wrapped its six-episode arc at what was in its entirety 4 hours and 40 minutes since its debut May 27. You could essentially say that’s a very long Star Wars…

Obi-Wan Kenobi EP Joby Harold tells us about his spark for the continuing story of Luke Skywalker’s first Jedi Master; the hermit in the Tatooine desert who’s hiding from the Imperials. You can listen to our chat below: In keeping step with the original trilogy, Obi-Wan can’t really make contact with Luke just yet…

Obi-Wan Kenobi streamer Disney+ will soon be available in 60 territories across EMEA after a series of launches in the region this week. The streaming service is debuting in 42 new countries and 11 other territories, including launches today in Greece, Turkey and countries in Central Eastern Europe, including Poland…

SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about the June 1 episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi. James Earl Jones is back as Darth Vader in Disney+’s Obi-Wan Kenobi. The familiar voice of Jones is heard in the third episode, which dropped today. In the episode, Darth Vader is in one of his meditation chambers and gets word that…

UPDATED with McGregor comment: Obi-Wan Kenobi himself spoke out today about the racist messages being sent to actress Moses Ingram, who plays Sith Inquisitor Reva Sevander on the new Disney+ series bearing the Jedi master’s name. Ewan McGregor posted a video clip to Twitter in which he said of the DMs sent to his…

Samba TV reports that the Stranger Things season 4 premiere episode pulled in 2.9M U.S. households over the 4-day holiday weekend, while 2.14M households watched the first episode of Obi-Wan Kenobi on Disney+. Samba TV clocks those who’ve watched for five minutes in a 3M U.S. households sampling. That 2.9M number for S…

It was a clash of the titans over Memorial Day weekend with three mega franchises, Stranger Things, Star Wars and Top Gun, unspooling new installments on streaming platforms and in theaters. All three are claiming record showings, with two, Netflix’s Stranger Things and Paramount’s Top Gun: Maverick, providing numbers…

UPDATED with Disney statement: Similarities between a horrible mass shooting at a Texas elementary school this week and a Jedi school massacre in Disney+’s new Obi-Wan Kenobi series has seen a succession of warnings added to the Ewan McGregor-led show. “There are certain scenes in this fictional series that some…

SPOILER ALERT: This review contains details of the first two episodes of Disney+’s series Obi-Wan Kenobi. The Force is not strong with Obi-Wan Kenobi. Debuting a few hours earlier than anticipated on Disney+, the first two episodes of the Ewan McGregor-starring miniseries are nearly all undiluted nostalgia with no…

There’s a new hope for fans eager to see the new Disney+ show Obi-Wan Kenobi, the latest spinoff in the Star Wars franchise. West Coast viewers will now be able to see the first two episodes of the show at 9 PM PT. They were originally slated to be available at midnight. The news arrived in a tweet from the official…