As Ahsoka Tano and friends prepare to return to the Star Wars universe for Season 2, one familiar face will not be in a galaxy far, far away. Deadline confirms that Claudia Black, who played Nightsister Klothow in Season 1 of Ahsoka on Disney+, is not returning to the show after she revealed…

Hayden Christensen is happy to be back in the Star Wars universe, as long as he doesn’t have to go back over to the Dark Side. While confirming his return as Anakin Skywalker for Season 2 of Ahsoka, the actor explained during Star Wars Celebration in Japan why he likes portraying the character…

Gosh, it’s been a long time since the season one finale of Ahsoka — one year and seven months. But two teases came out of the Ahsoka panel tonight at Star Wars Celebration in Tokyo about season 2, which is going into production next week. First, Hayden Christensen is coming back as Anakin Skywalker…

Marvel Studios and Lucasfilm’s Star Wars were at a lull this year at the Primetime Emmy noms with five apiece. While that’s up +2 from Marvel’s count of three last year with the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel, Star Wars‘ tally this year, all for Ahsoka, is off considerably from 2023’s 23 noms, which…

Ahsoka composer Kevin Kiner discussed his Star Wars influences for the Disney+ series at Deadline's Sound & Screen Television live-music event. He also revealed an homage to Star Wars composer John Williams in episode 5. "I kind of do this Williams lick," Kiner said during a panel discussion. "I…

Barbie and Ahsoka took respective top film and TV prizes at the 61st annual ICG Publicists Awards, which were handed out today at a luncheon at the Beverly Wilshire in Los Angeles. See the full list of winners below. Deadline’s Baz Bamigboye took home the International Media Award. Longtime…

The Publicists Guild is out with the TV nominees for its 2024 ICG Publicists Awards, which will be handed out in March. Vying for the Maxwell Weinberg Award for Television Publicity Campaign are the individuals and teams behind Disney+’s Ahsoka, Hulu’s Welcome to Chippendales and Paramount+’s…

Disney+ Star Wars series architect Dave Filoni has been named Chief Creative Officer of Lucasfilm. The new position means Filoni will have an even greater voice in the future of the galaxy that’s far, far away. Filoni said in the sitdown that he’s "exploring a possible second season" of…

Suits finally fell from grace. For the first time in 12 weeks (and after breaking another record the week before), the USA Network legal drama was bumped from its top spot on the Nielsen streaming charts from September 11-17. Don’t get it twisted, Suits still racked up 1.9 billion viewing…

Shawna Trpcic, an Emmy-nominated costume designer best known for her work on several Star Wars series on Disney+ and her collaborations with Joss Whedon, died October 4, her agency Gersh and Lucasfilm confirmed. She was 56. A cause of death was not provided but Trpcic’s passing was unexpected; as…

SPOILER ALERT: This recap contains spoilers from the Season 1 finale of Disney+/Lucasfilm’s Ahsoka, directed by Rick Famuyiwa and written by Dave Filoni. Heading into tonight’s Season 1 finale of Ahsoka, fans knew we were flying to a cliffhanger; that Grand Admiral Thrawn (Lars Mikkelsen) would…

Disney+ managed to break through the streaming noise with another title on Nielsen’s charts for the week of August 21 to August 27. The latest Star Wars spinoff Ahsoka fought its way to No. 5 on the overall list and No. 2 among streaming originals with the Tuesday release of the series’ first…