Star Wars Rebels

*Star Wars Rebels*
Star Wars Rebels
Genre	Science fiction; Action/Adventure; Drama;
Created by	Simon Kinberg; Dave Filoni; Carrie Beck;
Based on	Star Wars; by George Lucas
Voices of	Taylor Gray; Freddie Prinze, Jr.; Vanessa Marshall; Tiya Sircar; Steven Blum; Dee Bradley Baker; David Oyelowo;
Composers	Kevin Kiner; (Based on themes by John Williams);
Country of origin	Canada; United States
No. of seasons	4
No. of episodes	75 (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Simon Kinberg; Dave Filoni; Greg Weisman;
Producers	Kiri Hart; Athena Yvette Portillo; Carrie Beck;
Running time	Approx. 22 minutes
Production companies	9 Story Media Group; Lucasfilm; Lucasfilm Animation;
Original release
Network	United States; Disney XD; Qubo; Canada; TVOKids; Knowledge Kids; Citytv Saskatchewan; CTV 2 Alberta; Tele-Quebec
Release	October 3, 2014 –; March 5, 2018

Star Wars Rebels is an Canadian 3D CGii animated series produced by 9 Story Media Group Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation. It is set 14 years after Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith and 5 years before Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. The visual style of Star Wars Rebels is heavily inspired by the original Star Wars trilogy concept art by Ralph McQuarrie. The series premiered on October 3, 2014 on Disney Channel, with a movie special, titled Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion.[1]

Episodes

Shorts

Adapted from books turned in to short one minute to promote the series and made available online.

No.	Title	Date	Code
1	The Machine Ghost	August 11, 2014	101A
2	Art Attack	August 18, 2014	101B
3	Engagement	August 25, 2014	101C
4	Property of Ezra Bridger	September 1, 2014	101D

Season One (2014-15)

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Date	Code
1	1	Spark of Rebellion	October 3, 2014	102-103
2	2	roids in Distress	October 13, 2014	104
3	3	Fighter Flight	October 20, 2014	105
4	4	Rise of the Old Masters	October 27, 2014	106
5	5	Breaking Ranks	November 3, 2014	107
6	6	Out of Darkness	November 10, 2014	108
7	7	Empire Day	November 17, 2014	109
8	8	Gathering Forces	November 24, 2014	110
9	9	Path of the Jedi	December 1, 2014	111
10	10	Idiot's Array	December 8, 2014	112
11	11	Vision of Hope	December 15, 2014	113
12	12	Call to Action	December 22, 2014	114
13	13	Rebel Christmas	December 25, 2014	115
14	14	Rebel Resolve	February 23, 2015	116
15	15	Fire Across the Galaxy	March 2, 2015	117

Season Two

Lucasfilm and Disney have confirmed a second season.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Date	Code
16	1	The Siege of Lothal	June 20, 2015	201-202
17	2	Heating Malfunction	June 27, 2015	203
18	3	The Lost Commanders	October 14, 2015	204
19	4	Relics of The old Republic	October 21, 2015	205

Release

Broadcast

Disney XD (US) CBBC (UK) ABC (Australia) France 5 (France) Disney Channel (Spain Italy and Latin America) TVO (Canada) TV12 (Singapore) EBS (Korea) Kids 1 (South Korea) M-Net (South Africa) Cartoon Network (India and Pan Asia) CyBC (Cyprus) MiniMini+ (Poland) POP TV (Slovenia) MBC E Vision and Al Jazeera (Middle East) YLE (Finland) NRK (Norway) Lativi (Indonesia) TVNZ (New Zealand) Cartoon Gang and True Vision (Thailand) VBC (Vietnam) TV3 (Malaysia) RTE (Ireland) RTB (Brunei) Hop TV (Israel) Canal Panda (Portugal)

Home media

Star Wars Rebels: Spark of Rebellion was made to DVD on retailers that came including character shorts, plush toy and prievew of season one.

Reception

Ratings

The one hour special garnered 2.743 million viewers in the United States, the second most on the network that night. Worldwide, it delivered a total of 6.5 million viewers.[2]

Critical reception

At Metacritic, which assigns a normalised rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album has received an average score of 78, based on 4 reviews indicating "generally favorable reviews".[3]

IGN and Variety in particular had strong praise for the pilot movie, Spark of Rebellion, but their only real criticism was the appearance of the Wookiees in the film, being cited as not all that impressive compared to the rest of the animation.

References

Hibberd, James (January 23, 2014). "'Star Wars Rebels' interview: New series goes to dark places, embraces 1977 film's spirit". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.
Kondolojy, Amanda (October 6, 2014). "'Star Wars Rebels' Delivers 6.5 Million Viewers on Disney Channel and Disney XD Around the World". tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com. TV By the Numbers. Archived from the original on October 8, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2014.
"Star Wars Rebels – Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved 7 October 2014.

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[1] Hibberd, James (January 23, 2014). "'Star Wars Rebels' interview: New series goes to dark places, embraces 1977 film's spirit". Entertainment Weekly. Archived from the original on May 5, 2014. Retrieved May 5, 2014.

[2] Kondolojy, Amanda (October 6, 2014). "'Star Wars Rebels' Delivers 6.5 Million Viewers on Disney Channel and Disney XD Around the World". tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com. TV By the Numbers. Archived from the original on October 8, 2014. Retrieved October 14, 2014.

[metacritic-3] "Star Wars Rebels – Metacritic". Metacritic. Retrieved 7 October 2014.