According to the Beeb (BBC) the rumours of the upcoming Star Wars TV series are confirmed.

The TV series spin-off of the Stars Wars film franchise will run to at least 100 episodes, according to producer Rick McCallum. He told BBC Radio 1 the writing team would soon be meeting to start on the project, which would begin filming in 2008 and be ready the same year.

I remember being a kid when Star Wars was cool and new and innovative. Yes it was all about the toys and merchandise but atleast all that cross promotion stuff was new at the time. After seeing the abysmal episodes 1 through 3 this TV series worries me. If the franchise jumped the shark 3 movies ago, what we are going to be saying when episode 50 airs?