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LUCASFILM TO PRODUCE STAR WARS LIVE-ACTION TV SERIES Thursday, March 16 2006 
The
six
episodes
of
the
Star
Wars
movie
franchise
will
be
expanded
with
at
least
100
television
episodes,
Lucasfilm
producer
Rick
McCallum
has
told
BBC
Radio
1.
In
an
interview,
McCallum
said
that
the
live-action
TV
series
is
currently
being
developed
and
that
it
will
be
set
in
the
period
between
Revenge
of
the
Sith
and
the
first
Star
Wars
film,
now
called
A
New
Hope.
"Hopefully
if
we
can
make
it
work
and
everybody's
(more)GEORGE LUCAS TO FOCUS ON TELEVISION Tuesday, August 2 2005 
George
Lucas
said
Monday
that
in
the
aftermath
of
the
completion
of
his
Star
Wars
films,
he
plans
to
focus
on
television,
"but
it's
not
a
vision
I'm
running,
either
as
executive
producer
or
to
be
laying
out
the
groundwork,"
he
insisted.
Nevertheless,
his
words
did
not
seem
to
jibe
with
the
description
of
Lucasfilm's
first
major
TV
projects,
both
of
which
were
inspired
by
Lucas's
Star
Wars.
Speaking
at
the
annual
Siggraph
computer
graphics
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George Lucas says that his upcoming animated series The Clone Wars is so far removed from typical animated TV fare that "we're still trying to figure out how to put it on the air." In an interview with the online edition of TV Guide, Lucas said that the series would be rated PG-13 if it were a movie. "Everybody's got the same conundrums -- 'How do we program it? Where does it live? Where can we put something like this?" You know, it has to go [on the air] after 9:00 p.m. and it can't be on a kiddie channel." But while the series doesn't fit into a convenient "niche" for advertisers and programmers, Lucas said, "It's Star Wars and it's really good, so I'm sure somehow or another, people will also start thinking outside the box and it will find its home." Lucas indicated that he is independently financing 100 episodes of the animated series as well as 100 episodes of a live-action Star Wars-based series that has not yet begun shooting. "We're just doing them on the faith that we're going to [sell them]," he told TV Guide. "But I have enough confidence that this is good, and I'll make it really good, so I'm not too worried about that part of it."
