Golden Hen to Lay More Eggs

Why?
From Yahoo! News:

"Fret not, Force faithful, there is a new hope.

Jedi master George turned up over the weekend at Celebration III, a mega-gathering of 30,000 Star Wars geeks in Indianapolis, where he announced plans to move his space opera to the small screen.

For his first appearance at a Star Wars convention in 17 years, Lucas made a big splash. During a Q&A session, he announced that he is going to produce a 3-D animated action series expanding on the Cartoon Network's Emmy-winning Clone Wars. Then he dropped a bigger bomb, confirming a live-action Star Wars spinoff series is in the works.

Does that mean we'll get to see Darth Vader duking it out with the Donald on the next Apprentice?

Not quite.

According to Lucas, both shows will take place during the period between the end of Star Wars: Episode III--Revenge of the Sith and the original Star Wars (aka Episode IV--A New Hope), when the Emperor became all-powerful and started hunting the Jedi down."

Anticlimatic? Countless episodes of the Emporer mowing down Jedi while Yoda hangs out alone in a swamp? Why not start an original story long after Return of the Jedi. I'll bet Lucas ends up making another trilogy (as per his original plan) before he retires the franchise. For a TV series he should've looked to Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic = best original Star Wars story in years.