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Streaming service Disney+ premieres the first episode of the Star Wars live-action series Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Ewan McGregor as the exiled Jedi Master in events occurring at the midway point between the franchise’s prequel and original film trilogies. Jimmy Smits and Joel Edgerton reprise their roles from the Star Wars prequel films; Moses Ingram and Rupert Friend also star. 
Streaming service Disney+ releases the third episode of the Star Wars live-action series Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in events occurring at the midway point between the franchise’s prequel and original film trilogies. Hayden Christensen, Moses Ingram, and Indira Varma (Torchwood, Game Of Thrones) also star.
Showtime broadcasts the fifth episode of The Man Who Fell To Earth, a series continuation of the 1976 David Bowie film, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Bill Nighy, Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy), and Jimmi Simpson (Westworld).
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The CW airs the 27th episode of Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, and Alex Garfin.
Streaming service Disney+ releases the third episode of the Star Wars live-action series Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in events occurring at the midway point between the franchise’s prequel and original film trilogies. Moses Ingram and Indira Varma (Torchwood, Game Of Thrones) also star.
Streaming service Hulu premieres the 27th episode of the science fiction drama-comedy The Orville, starring and created by Seth McFarlane. Anne Winters (13 Reasons Why) joins the cast in the long-delayed third season premiere, the first episode to air as a streaming exclusive rather than on broadcast TV.
Blue Origin launches the New Shepard suborbital flight NS-21, the vehicle’s fifth crewed flight. Passengers on this flight are Evan Dick (who also flew aboard NS-19), Katya Echazarreta, Hamish Harding, Victor Correa Hespanha, Jaison Robinson, and Victor Vescovo.
Showtime broadcasts the sixth episode of The Man Who Fell To Earth, a series continuation of the 1976 David Bowie film, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Bill Nighy, Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy), and Jimmi Simpson (Westworld).
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The CW airs the 28th episode of Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, and Alex Garfin.
Streaming service Disney+ releases the fourth episode of the Star Wars live-action series Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in events occurring at the midway point between the franchise’s prequel and original film trilogies. Moses Ingram and Indira Varma (Torchwood, Game Of Thrones) also star.
Showtime broadcasts the seventh episode of The Man Who Fell To Earth, a series continuation of the 1976 David Bowie film, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Bill Nighy, Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy), and Jimmi Simpson (Westworld).
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The CW airs the 29th episode of Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, and Alex Garfin.
Streaming service Disney+ releases the fifth episode of the Star Wars live-action series Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in events occurring at the midway point between the franchise’s prequel and original film trilogies. Moses Ingram and Indira Varma (Torchwood, Game Of Thrones) also star.
Showtime broadcasts the eighth episode of The Man Who Fell To Earth, a series continuation of the 1976 David Bowie film, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Bill Nighy, Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy), and Jimmi Simpson (Westworld).
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The CW airs the 30th episode of Superman & Lois, starring Tyler Hoechlin, Elizabeth Tulloch, Jordan Elsass, and Alex Garfin. This is the second season finale.
Streaming service Disney+ releases the sixth episode of the Star Wars live-action series Obi-Wan Kenobi, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen in events occurring at the midway point between the franchise’s prequel and original film trilogies. Moses Ingram stars in the season finale.
Showtime broadcasts the ninth episode of The Man Who Fell To Earth, a series continuation of the 1976 David Bowie film, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Bill Nighy, Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy), and Jimmi Simpson (Westworld).
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Disney Music digitally releases the soundtrack from the streaming Star Wars series Obi-Wan Kenobi, featuring music by Natalie Holt, William Ross, and John Williams.
Showtime broadcasts the tenth episode of The Man Who Fell To Earth, a series continuation of the 1976 David Bowie film, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, Naomie Harris, Bill Nighy, Kate Mulgrew (Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Prodigy), and Jimmi Simpson (Westworld).
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theLogBook.com releases the 32nd episode of the Retrogram podcast, hosted by Earl Green, covering the following shows from the week of December 27, 1971:
Universal Studios releases the seaQuest DSV: The Complete Series Blu-Ray box set, featuring all 57 episodes of the Steven Spielberg-produced science fiction series that ran from 1993 through 1996.
Blue Origin launches the New Shepard suborbital flight NS-22, the vehicle’s sixth crewed flight. Passengers on this flight are Coby Cotton, Mário Ferreira, Vanessa O’Brien, Clint Kelly III, Sara Sabry, and Steve Young.
Streaming service Paramount Plus releases the 21st episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks, created by Mike McMahan (Rick & Morty) and starring Tawny Newsome (Space Force), Jack Quaid (The Boys), Noel Wells (Craig Of The Creek), Eugene Cordero (Other Space), Dawnn Lewis (A Different World, Futurama), and Jerry O’Connell (Sliders). James Cromwell (Babe, Star Trek: First Contact) guest stars.
Don Lind, a veteran of the Apollo, Skylab and space shuttle eras at NASA, dies at the age of 92. Born in Midvale, Utah, his service as a U.S. Navy pilot and a degree in nuclear physics brought him to the attention of NASA, and he was a member of the agency’s fifth astronaut class, many of whom went to the moon. Lind was considered for the crew of Apollo 20 until that mission’s cancellation. During the Skylab space station’s tenure, he was assigned to the crew of the Skylab Rescue contingency mission (which ultimately was deemed unnecessary) and then as a potential member of a fourth Skylab crew, whose mission was also cancelled. By the time Lind made his only spaceflight, aboard the shuttle Challenger in 1985, he had been waiting nearly two decades for a flight. He retired from NASA following his flight, and went on to teach at Utah State University.
Astronomer Dr. Frank Drake, one of the founders of SETI (the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligences), dies at the age of 92. His fascinating with searching for life on other worlds began at a young age, and defined much of his life and career. In the 1960s, as part of a lecture, he devised the Drake Equation, a formula for calculating a very rough estimate of the possible number of civilizations capable of communicating across interstellar distances; this equation has been debated and challenged over the years, as well as gaining mainstream recognition after being cited in popular science programming (such as Carl Sagan’s Cosmos) and science fiction as well. In the 1970s, Drake and Sagan joined forces to create the “messages in bottles” affixed to the earliest space probes expected to break free of the solar system, including the Pioneer plaques and the golden records attached to Voyagers 1 and 2.
The cosmonaut who still holds the record for the longest single stay in space, Dr. Valery Polyakov, dies at the age of 80. Born in 1942, Polyakov joined the cosmonaut corps in 1972, and then had to wait sixteen years for his first flight, aboard Soyuz TM-6 to the Mir space station in 1988, where he stayed for 240 days. In January 1994 he returned to Mir aboard the Soyuz TM-18 mission, and remained in orbit for a continuous 437 day stay, still the longest continuous spaceflight undertaken by a human being at the time of his death. He returned to Earth in March 1995 and retired from the active cosmonaut rotation a few months later, remaining with the post-Soviet Russian space program as an advisor in the area of the health effects of long-term spaceflight, as well as having a hand in selecting future cosmonauts. He was awarded both the Hero of the Soviet Union and the Hero of the Russian Federation over the course of his career. Though fellow cosmonaut Sergei Adveyev holds the record for the most time in space, that time was accumulated over the course of three missions; as of 2022, Polyakov’s single-flight record remains unbroken.
Cleopatra Records releases the album Space Force by Todd Rundgren, consisting of all-star collaborations with artists with whom Rundgren had not previously worked.
Big Finish Productions publishes the novel The Worlds of Blake’s 7: The Clone Masters – The Rule Of Death by Trevor Baxendale, a continuation of the television episode Weapon. (Big Finish also makes an audiobook available, read by Glynis Barber.)
Trunk Records digitally releases an album of music from Sidney Sager’s‘s soundtrack to the 1977 British children’s supernatural series Children Of The Stones. A limited vinyl edition is also released and sells out quickly.
The 873rd episode of Doctor Who airs on BBC1 (the 174th episode since the series’ revival), starring Jodie Whittaker, Mandip Gill, and John Bishop. Peter Davison, Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy, Paul McGann, Janet Fielding, and Sophie Aldred guest star. This the third of three specials to air in 2022 in lieu of a full season, timed to coincide with the celebration of 100 years of the British Broadcasting Corporation. It is also the end of Jodie Whittaker’s tenure as the Doctor, and the end of executive producer Chris Chibnall’s sometimes controversial tenure as showrunner.