{"id":295359,"date":"2025-02-12T06:55:00","date_gmt":"2025-02-12T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/es\/?p=348377"},"modified":"2025-07-01T15:24:47","modified_gmt":"2025-07-01T22:24:47","slug":"the-acolyte-is-canceled-after-just-one-season-but-disney-gives-good-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/the-acolyte-is-canceled-after-just-one-season-but-disney-gives-good-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"The Acolyte is canceled after just one season, but Disney gives good reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Disney+ series The Acolyte has been canceled after just one season, <strong>despite accumulating a notable total of 2.673 billion minutes of viewing, making it the second most-watched on the platform<\/strong>. However, this figure has been the subject of controversy as it is based on third-party estimates and focuses exclusively on the U.S. market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Numbers, just a part of the equation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite its initial success in terms of minutes viewed, the series suffered a significant drop in audience throughout its airing, even recording less than a million views on some episodes on the day of their premiere. According to internal sources, <strong>the gradual decline in audience and the perceived investment risk led Disney to decide that continuing with The Acolyte was not profitable<\/strong>, even considering its high production cost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Acolyte | Official Trailer | Disney+\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BtytYWhg2mc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The cancellation of The Acolyte has generated significant controversy in the Star Wars fan community, reminding us that, in the streaming era, <strong>the numbers only tell part of the story and that public reaction can significantly influence the fate of productions<\/strong>. Despite its short duration, the series left a mark and a debate that will endure among the franchise&#8217;s followers.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"sc-card-program\">\r\n  <div class=\"sc-card-program__body\">\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row clearfix\">\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-logo\">\r\n        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__img\" alt=\"Disney+\" src=\"https:\/\/images.sftcdn.net\/images\/t_app-icon-s\/p\/246b1fd4-6164-4c6f-9318-27e1cb587dc6\/489019137\/disney-plus-logo\" width=\"100px\" height=\"100px\">\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-title\">\r\n        <span class=\"sc-card-program__title\">Disney+<\/span>\r\n        <a class=\"sc-card-program__button sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/disney-plus.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">DOWNLOAD<\/a>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n      <div class=\"sc-card-program__col-rating\">\r\n        <svg class=\"rating-score__content\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" version=\"1.1\" x=\"0\" y=\"0\" viewbox=\"0 0 50 50\" enable-background=\"new 0 0 50 50\" xml:space=\"preserve\"><path class=\"rating-score__background rating-score--good\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><path class=\"rating-score__value rating-score__value--0\" fill=\"none\" stroke-width=\"6\" stroke-dashoffset=\"0\" stroke-miterlimit=\"10\" d=\"M40 40c8.3-8.3 8.3-21.7 0-30s-21.7-8.3-30 0 -8.3 21.7 0 30\"><\/path><text class=\"rating-score__number\" content=\"\" text-anchor=\"middle\" transform=\"matrix(1 0 0 1 25 31.0837)\" data-auto=\"app-user-score\"><\/text><\/svg>\r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <span class=\"sc-card-program__description\"><\/span>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"sc-card-program__row\">\r\n      <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sc-card-program__bigpic\" src=\"\" onerror=\"this.style.display='none'\">\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <a class=\"sc-card-program__link track-link sc-card-program-internal\" href=\"https:\/\/disney-plus.en.softonic.com\/iphone\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/a>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Disney+ series The Acolyte has been canceled after just one season, despite accumulating a notable total of 2.673 billion minutes of viewing, which positioned it as the second most-watched on the platform. However, this figure has been the subject of controversy as it is based on third-party estimates and focuses exclusively on the U.S. market. The numbers, just one part of the equation Despite its initial success in terms of minutes viewed, the series suffered a significant drop in audience throughout its airing, reaching less than [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9318,"featured_media":295370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":1},"categories":[1015],"tags":[8300,1351,6372,1455,8301],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[6869],"class_list":["post-295359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-cancelacion","tag-disney","tag-disney-2","tag-star-wars","tag-the-acolyte","content-category-streaming-videos"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9318"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309729,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295359\/revisions\/309729"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295359"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=295359"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=295359"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=295359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}