'Star Wars Rebels' Gets a Second Season Before It Even Premieres

Audiences haven't even seen Star Wars Rebels yet, and they've already got a guarantee of two seasons. It was announced on Thursday that Disney Channels Worldwide had ordered a second season of the upcoming Star Wars animated series from Lucasfilm.

"The global expectations for this series could not have been any higher," Disney Channels Worldwide President and Chief Creative Officer Gary Marsh said in a statement. "And I am proud to say that the team at Lucasfilm has delivered something that has surpassed even that incredibly high bar — artistically and thematically."

Executive producers Simon Kinberg and Dave Filoni, and co-executive producer and supervising writer Henry Gilroy will return for the second season.

Star Wars Rebels makes its Disney Channel premiere on Oct. 3 before moving to its regular home on Disney XD.