Shortly after The Acolyte arrived on Disney+ last year, Disney+ and Lucasfilm announced the Star Wars TV show's cancellation. However, they did so despite it being the streamer's second-biggest

It’s hard to make sense of Lucasfilm’s decision to cancel . While it didn’t click with me, we now know that the show was actually pretty popular. According to data shared by Deadline from Luminate’s 2024 TV viewership report,

The Acolyte, it turns out, was Disney Plus's second most-watched series of the year, and it still ended up cancelled. Why?

This might come as a surprise, considering The Acolyte was canceled after just one season despite being pitched as a multi-season show. The reason for its cancelation was put down