Actress Rosario Dawson, who plays Ahsoka Tano in Star Wars: Ahsoka, recently confirmed that discussions for a second season have not happened.
(L-R): Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo), Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and Ezra Bridger (Eman Esfandi) in Lucasfilm’s STAR WARS: AHSOKA, exclusively on Disney+. ©.
In an interview as part of Entertainment Weekly’s Dagobah Dispatch, Dawson shared, “I’m grateful that we have the holidays to go into. Even now with the strike over, there’s no work really to be done.
She continued, “Everyone’s already at that point of, ‘Let’s circle back at the end of the year,’ kind of thing and I’m like, ‘Oh, thank god’, because I need a moment still to keep taking this all in and just seeing the reaction before jumping back into it – which I hope we do, that we get to.”
(L-R): Baylan Skoll (Ray Stevenson) and Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) in Lucasfilm’s STAR WARS: AHSOKA, exclusively on Disney+. ©2023 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
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When asked whether she’s had conversations about returning to the role, Dawson replied, “No. We’re supposed to be having a dinner soon of the whole cast, which will be really nice because I haven’t seen everyone.”
“I was very jealous seeing everyone at some of these cons recently, which I wasn’t able to be at, so I’m really looking forward to seeing everyone,” she concluded.
(L-R): Dave Filoni and Rosario Dawson on the set of Lucasfilm’s STAR WARS: AHSOKA, exclusively on Disney+. ©2023 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
Dawson’s comments appear to confirm a report from October that a second season for the show was not “locked yet.”
That report came from Deadline’s Anthony D’Alessandro. He shared, “We hear that Ahsoka Season 2 is more of a reality in the conversation, though nothing is locked yet.”
(L-R): Ahsoka Tano (Rosario Dawson) and Sabine Wren (Natasha Liu Bordizzo) in Lucasfilm’s STAR WARS: AHSOKA, exclusively on Disney+. ©2023 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
The show faced poor viewership with Samba TV reporting that it lost nearly a third of audience through its run and was down over 40% compared to The Mandalorian Season 3 finale.
The analytics firm shared that the season finale for the series only drew in 863,000 US households over a six day period after it was released on Disney+.
The finale of #Ahsoka landed on #DisneyPlus last week to 863k US households watching. Older millennials tuned in at the highest rate to watch whether #Thrawn made it off Peridea.#SambaTVInsights #AhsokaTano #StarWars pic.twitter.com/XMkDddKoKL
— Samba TV (@samba_tv) October 11, 2023
That was down from the series premiere which only brought in 1.2 million US households over the same 6-day time period. That’s a total decline of 337,000 US households or a drop in 28% of viewers.
The latest new #StarWars series, #Ahsoka finally hit screens with 1.2M US households watching over its first six days. This is similar to viewership of #Andor‘s premiere season and slightly lower than #TheMandalorian‘s third season premiere over its first six days.… pic.twitter.com/ymspRP15Es
— Samba TV (@samba_tv) August 28, 2023
The finale was also down compared to The Mandalorian Season 3 finale. According to Samba TV, The Mandalorian Season 3 concluded with 1.4 million US households tuning in to watch over its first five days.
Samba TV has entered the chat! In its first five days, The Mandalorian season three finale ep was watched by 1.4M US households! pic.twitter.com/vEpgQGtUgZ
— Samba TV (@samba_tv) April 27, 2023
Not only did the show perform worse than The Mandalorian Season 3 finale, but it performed worse than Andor’s season 1 finale.
As noted by X user NowItsKnown, the Ahsoka finale only brought in 575 million minutes for its season finale while Andor had nearly a 100 million more minutes at 674 million minutes for its season finale.
As anticipated #Ahsoka‘s season finale came in under #Andor‘s by 99Mil Mins.#Disney #DisneyPlus #StarWars@wdwpro1 @ValliantRenegad @KinelRyan @JonasJCampbell @Nerdrotics @GeeksGamersCom @BoundingComics pic.twitter.com/v6bpGMda3k
— MAC (@NowItsKnown) November 2, 2023
Infamously, Andor showrunner Tony Gilroy detailed that the show was chasing the audience. He told Variety, “I think I was surprised. I thought the show would go the other way, that we would have this gigantic, instantaneous audience that would just be everywhere, but that it would take forever for non-‘Star Wars’ people or critics or my cohort of friends to get involved in the show.”
“The opposite happened. We ended up with all this critical praise, all this deep appreciation and understanding from really surprising number of sources, and we’re chasing the audience,” he admitted.
(L-R): Tony Gilroy and Diego Luna on the set of Lucasfilm’s ANDOR, exclusively on Disney+. ©2022 Lucasfilm Ltd. & TM. All Rights Reserved.
What do you make of Dawson’s admission that a second season of Ahsoka has not been discussed yet?
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Trashoka. Get outta here with that crap already.
Just stop your idiotic nonsense