Star Wars TV series

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Multiple internet sources have confirmed that George Lucas is in Los Angeles to meet with writers for his long-gestating live-action Star War series.

"According to one agent familiar with the project, Lucas' plan is to recruit several freelancers - aka "writers of real significance" - to spend a week at the Skywalker Ranch in November to come up with story ideas for the series. The agent also said that Lucas has indicated a desire to hire writers from other countries. The scribes would then disperse and write the 13 episodes that would be produced and financed by Lucas."

When Lucas first began recruiting Hollywood writers for the project as early as February 2006, according to the agent, his original intent was to produce 26 episodes before he went on the lookout for a network partner. The news put fans in the frenzy as speculation swirled that the live-action series would take place between Star Wars III: Revenge of the Sith and Star Wars IV: A New Hope, though the agent believes those rumors are unfounded. Plot points for the series, as a result, remain sketchy.

Hmmmm, Now writers of real significance.. (so thats Paul Anderson, Micheal Bay and troop out)
I hope that by Real significance it means people who have written the novels that followed episode 6 such as Timothy Zahn, and Alan Dean Foster and other actual novels and not TV writers.

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And as a wrote that the BBC put this up:

Fans should not expect Luke Skywalker, Darth Vader or any other established characters to appear.
"It's about minor characters," he told the Los Angeles Times. "It's completely different. But it's a good idea, and it's going to be a lot of fun to do."

LucasFilm is also working on an animated TV series, expanded from its earlier Clone Wars shorts.
The half-hour cartoon series takes place between the events depicted in the Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith films.
The live-action TV series will take place in the Star Wars universe but will not feature the Skywalker family, as had previously been suggested.

Lucas, who joked the series would analyse "the life of robots", said the US TV networks were "having a hard time" comprehending his vision.

Last year producer Rick McCallum said the proposed TV spin-off could run to at least 100 episodes.

Interesting... Still no news on the writers though.