source: TVGuide.com
CLONE WARS CGI SERIES ONLY EXCERPTS FROM INTERVIEW
TV Guide: Can we talk about the two Star Wars television series you're working on?
Lucas: There's Clone Wars and we're in the middle of that.
Lucas: Well it's basically like Star Wars, takes place between obviously Episode II and Episode III but it's the same kind of action. Unfortunately it doesn't fall into the realm of what animation is, which is either adult, kind of off-color humor, or kiddie stuff. This is like Star Wars — sort of in between those two things.
It's a lot of battle stuff and it's obviously the Clone Wars so it's a war picture. So it's kind of a PG-13 animated TV series which is something that has never been done before and obviously doesn't fit in any of the conventional slots that these things fall into. In that it's very different and I think it's very exciting. It's got a very, very sophisticated look to it.
It's very much like the features. We're still trying to figure out how to put it on the air.
Lucas: We're going to do a hundred episodes. I think we're on [No.] 40 right now. We'll probably end up with 50 to 60 episodes before we start to put it on the air. We'd like to put it on next fall in about a year from now but we'll see what happens.
TV Guide: Where do you see it living? How do you see this playing? Obviously it doesn't sound like a Saturday morning cartoon.
Lucas: Right now we don't know. It's out there to people and people are talking about it, but so far 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 after 9 o'clock and it can't be on a kiddie channel.
TV Guide: So you see it on a more mainstream channel or the Sci Fi Channel or something like that?
Lucas: Well, it's one of those things. Television is sort of bifurcated up into small niches and unless you fit in one of those niches, no one knows what to do with you. Of course, I'm always outside the box, so it's like "Uh-oh, we don't have a box for you." [Laughs] 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.
TV Guide: And where will that live in the Star Wars continuum relative to Clone Wars and relative to the films?
Lucas: Well, Clone Wars has got all the characters in it — Yoda and Anakin and Obi Wan and the Emperor and all that — so it's basically the movie.
Yabba, dabba, doooooooo! 
We need a contact at Lucas Films to record one on his/her dodgy mobile phone. There's thinking outside the box for ya, a Sony Ericsson box that is.
