George Lucas may be bringing Star Wars to TV, but the news isn't good: according to [potential minor spoiler warning] this article in The Daily Telegraph, he plans to set the series between Revenge of the Sith and A New Hope.

What a terrible idea. We don't need to know anything about this time period, and I can't imagine any era of the Star Wars universe I'm less interested in knowing about.

One ray of hope: does this mean he is planning to do Episodes 7-9 after all? Is he setting the series early rather than later to save that storyline for the movies? That's the only rationale for this I can come up with.