The 'Star Wars' Ratings Problem and What To Do Next

The Town with Matthew Belloni

The Ringer

Society & Culture

4.3 • 847 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Matt is joined by Luminate’s director of business development, Jimmy Doyle, to discuss the state of the 'Star Wars' franchise, its lack of theatrical movies, and what the troubling TV ratings signal for the brand. They talk about the 'Star Wars' properties that are working, the upcoming Mandalorian movie, and whether Disney should ultimately license its content to Netflix (02:43). In light of the recent Emmy nominations, Matt finishes the show with his prediction for Best Drama Series, Best Comedy Series, and Best Limited Series (23:13). For a 20 percent discount on Matt’s Hollywood insider newsletter, ‘What I’m Hearing ...,’ click this link: puck.news/thetown Email us your thoughts! [email protected] Host: Matt Belloni Guest: Jimmy Doyle Producers: Craig Horlbeck and Jessie Lopez Theme Song: Devon Renaldo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Join me, Danny Kelly, along with Danny Hyfitz and Craig Horlbeck every week on the Ringer Fantasy Football Show as we prepare for the 2024 fantasy football season.
0:09.2	We'll cover all the biggest news and topics across the league as well as whatever weird topics our listeners email us about.
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0:20.7	It is Wednesday, July 17th.
0:23.6	Last night was the big finale of the Acolyte,
0:26.2	the latest Star Wars show on Disney Plus.
0:28.3	Did you watch?
0:29.5	Chances are you didn't.
0:31.1	This is the sixth live-action Star Wars series
0:33.7	to debut on the service since it launched
0:35.8	almost five years ago with The Mandalorian,
0:37.8	a massive hit.
0:39.0	That's not including all the animated series and the movies, of course, six episodes,
0:43.1	plus two standalones.
0:44.5	They're all there on Disney Plus.
0:46.3	So how is Star Wars doing for Disney?
0:48.8	After all, it's been almost 12 years since the company bought Lucasfilm, restarting the Star Wars
0:54.0	content engine under Kathy Kennedy, the longtime Spielberg producer, who company bought Lucasfilm, restarting the Star Wars content engine under
0:55.0	Kathy Kennedy, the longtime Spielberg producer, who was George Lucas's handpicked choice to run
1:00.1	the company.
1:01.1	Listeners and readers of my Puck newsletter know that I've been pretty critical of Kennedy.
1:05.4	On the film side, the franchise has been pretty mismanaged, in my opinion.
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