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Mid-show PDA, a surprise proposal and “Baby Blockheads” — New Kids on the Block are back on the road with a bang!

Disney+’s animated series Star Wars: The Bad Batch will premiere its second season on the streaming site in Fall 2022.

The Mandalorian has been revealed.The news was revealed at the ongoing Star Wars Celebration event this week, its four-day fan event in Anaheim, California.It was confirmed at the event that filming on the hit Star Wars spin-off has finished, with all episodes now in pre-production. They also confirmed the new season would arrive in February 2023.The news was revealed via a new poster for the series.

Carson Burton Obi-Wan and Darth Vader are back together for the first time since 2005.Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen return their iconic roles from the “Star Wars” prequel series in the new Disney+ limited series “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” For the stars, it’s been a long journey since the prequels premiered.“For the response not to be rosy when they came out, was hard. It was hard,” McGregor told Variety’s Marc Malkin on the red carpet at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim on Thursday.

Similarities between a horrible mass school shooting in Texas this week and a Jedi school massacre in Disney+’s new Obi-Wan Kenobi series has seen a succession of warnings added to the Ewan McGregor-led show.

"Obi-Wan Kenobi" is premiering on Disney+ a few hours earlier than planned, the "Star Wars" show announced Thursday night. West Coast viewers will be able to stream the first two episodes of the show, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, starting at 9 p.m. PT.

Lots of news broke yesterday at the “Star Wars Experience” convention in Anaheim about Tony Gilroy’s upcoming “Star Wars” show “Andor.” And the biggest news of the day was about the scale of the series. There will be not one but two twelve-episode seasons of the “Rogue One” prequel, with season one premiering on the streamer in August.

Willow is coming!

Jon Burlingame editorComposer Nicholas Britell can keep a secret. The three-time Oscar nominee and Emmy winner for “Succession” has been working on “Andor,” the next “Star Wars” TV series, for the past two years, totally under wraps.Details about “Andor” were announced yesterday by Lucasfilm at the “Star Wars Experience” in Anaheim, Calif. Diego Luna will reprise his role as Cassian Andor from the 2016 film “Rogue One” in a 12-part series beginning Aug.

Indiana Jones is swinging into action.

The new Obi-Wan Kenobi series is now streaming on Disney+ and a surprise red carpet premiere took place at the Star Wars Celebration fan event!

Obi-Wan Kenobi” is premiering on Disney+ a few hours earlier than planned, the “Star Wars” show announced Thursday night.Viewers will be able to stream the first two episodes of the show, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, starting at 9 p.m. PT. Originally, they were set to become available at midnight.The news was announced in a tweet from the official “Star Wars” account.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterThere is no shortage of television shows set in a galaxy far, far away.During Disney and Lucasfilm’s presentation at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim, Calif., most of the time was devoted to introducing new series like “Skeleton Crew,” starring Jude Law, and “Andor,” featuring Diego Luna in a prequel to “Rogue One,” as well as long-in-the-works titles like “Obi-Wan Kenobi,” which premieres on May 27.But in contrast to the robust slate of “Star Wars” TV series set for Disney+, the franchise’s feature film landscape has been as desolate as the sands of Tatooine in the wake of 2019’s “Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker.” That’s surprising, since “Star Wars” is one of Hollywood’s biggest properties and the studio has a trio of untitled space opera movies set to hit theaters around Christmas every other year starting in 2023.

Disney+ released the first teaser trailer for Lucasfilm and Imagine Entertainment’s “Willow,” a new live-action fantasy adventure series that serves as a continuation of the classic 1988 feature film, at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim on Thursday. “There is a story of a child, destined to be an empress,” the voiceover on the trailer begins. “And the unlikely hero who would protect her.”The story began in the Ron Howard-directed film with an aspiring magician (Warwick Davis) from a Nelwyn village and an infant girl destined to unite the realms, who together helped destroy an evil queen and banish the forces of darkness. Now, in a magical world where brownies, sorcerers, trolls, and other mystical creatures flourish, the adventure continues, as an unlikely group of heroes set off on a dangerous quest to places far beyond their home, where they must face their inner demons and come together to save their world“There is a balance between all things: light and shadow, good and evil,” Davis, who will reprise his role as Willow Ufgood says.

Jude Law is coming to a galaxy far far away.

Season 3 of Disney+’s The Mandalorian will debut in February 2023, co-creators Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni said onstage Thursday during a panel at Star Wars Celebration in Anaheim.

Jude Law is taking on a big new role in the Star Wars universe.

Star Wars‘ Rogue One prequel Andor  will be hitting Disney+  in late summer.

Johnny Depp’s $50 million defamation trial against ex-wife Amber Heard is set to resume Monday after a weeklong recess. When the trial reconvenes May 16 in Fairfax, Virginia, Depp's legal team will cross-examine Heard about her tumultuous 15-month marriage to Depp.

The Legends are taking over Disneyland!

Chris Willman Music WriterWith the Go-Go’s now finally inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year — about 15 years after it should have happened — are there any other major injustices in the world left to correct? Headlines say yes, actually, but still, it was easy to focus on tiny moral conquests that have been achieved as the group returned to Southern California for a series of homecoming shows this week. It’s a victory lap that isn’t leaving any skid marks on any hearts.The big kahuna of their SoCal tour-within-a-tour this week is Wednesday night’s show at Crypto.com Arena, a venue that’s seven miles and about 43 years from the Masque, where the earliest incarnation of the group started out as a punk group.

The planned full day walkout at Disney today over the company’s fumbled response to Florida’s discrimatory “Don’t Say Gay” bill has seen an outpouring of support for the  LGBTQ+ community from some leading divisions in the House of Mouse’s empire

Chris Willman Music WriterElvis Costello and the Imposters will embark on a U.S. tour this August, joined on most of the dates by Nick Lowe, Costello’s original late ’70s/early ’80s producer and, of course, the man who knows the answer to the question “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love and Understanding.”Costello and Lowe last shared a touring bill in 1989.

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Snoop Dogg is facing accusations.

Kaley Cuoco is having a blast at Disneyland!

An Orange County Superior Court judge rejected a lawsuit meant to compel Disney to comply with a living wage ordinance approved by Anaheim voters.

Zooey Deschanel and Jonathan Scott are enjoying a day at Disneyland!

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorFor the second year in a row, the flagship VidCon creator and fan convention in Anaheim, Calif., has been nixed because of the COVID pandemic.On Friday, VidCon announced that the 11th annual VidCon US event, which had been slated to take place Oct. 22-24, has been canceled.At the same time, VidCon has scheduled the next in-person event in the U.S.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorThe original Jungle Cruise boat ride first opened in July 1955 at Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. and has been amusing visitors ever since.Over the years, the river has changed with the addition of an elephant bathing pool, gorillas and a new piranha scene.

Emily Blunt and Dwayne Johnson are hitting the red carpet!

eported Saturday morning by City News Service, with the city issuing a statement Saturday saying it planned to act fast on the plans. And it did, cancelling the event with a follow-up statement, citing public safety concerns.“The city of Anaheim shared public safety concerns with the operator, and those concerns are shared by the operator,” the statement said in part.

It appears that Shia LaBeouf and his ex-wife Mia Goth are back together as a couple!

Billie Eilish is enjoying a rare day out with her boyfriend!

Simone Biles fans will get the chance to see her record-breaking gymnastic skills in person!The 24-year-old Olympian will be headlining the Athleta Presents Gold Over America Tour, also presented by MagicSpace Entertainment and AEG, and tickets went on sale Friday. The 35-city tour kicks off in Tucson, Arizona, on Sept.

Adam B. Vary Senior Entertainment WriterStarting on June 4, guests at Disney California Adventure in Anaheim, Calif., will get to step foot onto the Avengers Campus, a new six-acre attraction that brings the world of the Marvel Cinematic Universe to vivid life.