Not even Star Wars is a match for Suits
Although we have never, personally, spent millions of dollars and god knows how many hours of human creativity to make a Star Wars TV show—hey, fingers crossed for next year, though!—we have to assume that it’s probably pretty hard to do. Certainly, it seems like the sort of thing where, once you’ve done it, you’d like your end product to be met with, if not thundering, rapturous applause, then at least a response enthusiastic enough that it beats out the online reactions to a decade-old basic cable legal drama. But alas, this is not Ahsoka’s fate. This is per Deadline, reporting on the latest streaming numbers from Nielsen, which cover the week of August 21—a.k.a., the Rosario Dawson Disney+ show’s second week of availability. Which saw it, surprise surprise, fall fall short of the viewing bar set by former USA series Suits, because we don’t know if you’ve heard yet, but this Suits show is pretty hot right now, despite having been off the air for like 4 years at this point. In fact,
That’s according to Deadline, which reports the latest streaming numbers from Nielsen, for the week of August 21, which is the second week of the Rosario Dawson Disney+ show. Everyone watching was surprised, falling below the viewing threshold of the old American TV series Suits, because I don’t know if you have heard, but the movie Suits is currently quite hot even though it hasn’t aired yet. It’s been almost 4 years now. In fact, Ahsoka didn’t even do well enough on the streaming charts to deserve the honor of being directly usurped by the older American series, which clocked up 2.6 billion minutes watched in release week. . mentioned, including Netflix and Peacock. The Star Wars series actually ranks fifth according to Nielsen figures, behind Netflix’s Who Is Erin Carter, Disney+’s kid-oriented Bluey and Netflix’s 417-episode behemoth Grey’s Anatomy. Suffice it to say that yes, the latest Star Wars series is littered with reruns, even if, episode by episode, its 829 million viewing minutes aren’t too shabby.