Skeleton Crew's season 2 chances don't look great, but the Star Wars show's creators are 'happy to make more' if it is renewed

Bare-bones viewing figures don't make for good reading

· TechRadar

News By Tom Power published 14 January 2025

Is this the end of the road for Skeleton Crew's adorable kids? (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)

  • Skeleton Crew's creators hope they'll get to make a second season
  • However, the signs don't look good for the Disney Plus show's renewal
  • Skeleton Crew's characters could appear in another Star Wars project, though

Star Wars: Skeleton Crew's creators have revealed that they're "dreaming" of making a second season, but it's looking likely that the show won't return for another outing.

Speaking to TechRadar, Jon Watts and Christopher Ford said that, in the event that their series is renewed, they've come up with "different possibilities" about where the story could go next.

Asked if they'd discussed what a sequel season's plot might entail ahead of the Star Wars show's season 1 finale, which airs tonight (January 14) in the US and tomorrow (January 15) in the UK and Australia, Watts told me: "Yeah, we wanted to make sure this season had a satisfying beginning, middle, and end. But, if people want to see more Skeleton Crew, we'd be happy to make more."

"We're dreaming of it [a second season]," Ford added. "We've come up with different possibilities, so never say never."

Will Skeleton Crew get renewed for a second season on Disney Plus?

Skeleton Crew's season 2 chances don't look good, according to its two-episode premiere's viewership data (Image credit: Lucasfilm/Disney Plus)

Despite Skeleton Crew's positive critical reception – read my Star Wars: Skeleton Crew review to see what I thought of it – a second season looks unlikely.

Per recently released data by Nielsen, a reputable US audience measurement company, the Disney Plus series failed to crack Nielsen's Top 10 streaming list for the week running December 9 to 15, 2024 – i.e., the seven day period after the show debuted on one of the world's best streaming services. Fellow TV Originals including A.P Blo and A Man on the Inside, plus Jamie Foxx's Netflix comedy special, accrued more minutes streamed than Skeleton Crew did.

According to Star Wars fansite The Jedi Temple Archives, Skeleton Crew didn't break into the Top 10 most-watched TV shows list from Luminate, another entertainment industry data firm, for that week either. In fact, Skeleton Crew's 384 millions minutes viewed is the lowest total ever for a Star Wars series' premiere. The Book of Boba Fett had held that record with 389 million minutes accumulated following its one-episode premiere in December 2021. Even The Acolyte, which wasn't as successful as Disney and Lucasfilm hoped it would be, racked up 488 million minutes streamed in its first seven days on the platform.

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