Star Wars: The Bad Batch trailer arrives ahead of May the Fourth launch

This week's one-two Disney+ news punch revolves around Star Wars-a PB-and-choc combo of TV series that has so far paid off richly, especially after the shaky conclusion to the franchise's latest film trilogy.

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  Coming May the Fourth. (Oh, I get it-I just said that date out loud.) [credit: Disney ]

First up is the newest Star Wars series to debut, coming in barely over a month. We learned last month that new series Star Wars: The Bad Batch is slated to launch on Tuesday, May 4 (huh, we wonder why they picked that date). On Tuesday, Disney followed that news with the premiere of that CGI-animation series' first trailer, which immediately follows in the footsteps of Clone Wars' revival on Disney+ a little over a year ago. The new series also sees longtime Clone Wars steward Dave Filoni return as co-executive producer.

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Clone Wars' seventh season opened by focusing squarely on the Bad Batch, a ragtag group of clone troopers (also known as Clone Force 99) whose mutations turned them into supersoldiers above the rest of the clone fray. Their combination of action-filled missions and comic-relief banter set a solid tone for a season that barreled toward epic set pieces long-teased by Filoni, particularly the Siege of Mandalore.

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