'Star Wars' headed to TV as weekly series
{{date|August 4, 2005}}

At the [[w:Siggraph|Siggraph]] 2005 computer graphics convention in [[w:Los Angeles|Los Angeles]], California Tuesday, ''[[w:Star Wars|Star Wars]]'' creator [[w:George Lucas|George Lucas]] unveiled plans for a weekly computer-animated series based on the science fiction saga.

The new show, to be called ''[[w:Clone Wars|Clone Wars]]'', will be a 3-D animated spinoff of the series and is to be produced in a Lucas facility in Singapore. Lucas already has done limited-run 2-D traditional animated television with ''[[w:Star Wars: Clone Wars (cartoon)|Star Wars: Clone Wars]]'' shorts on the U.S. cable channel, [[w:Cartoon Network|Cartoon Network]]. 

Lucas said advances in digital technology allow an animated television series to do what otherwise would be too expensive. 

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At the Siggraph 2005 computer graphics convention in Los Angeles, California Tuesday, Star Wars creator George Lucas unveiled plans for a weekly computer-animated series based on the science fiction saga.

The new show, to be called Clone Wars, will be a 3-D animated spinoff of the series and is to be produced in a Lucas facility in Singapore. Lucas already has done limited-run 2-D traditional animated television with Star Wars: Clone Wars shorts on the U.S. cable channel, Cartoon Network. 

Lucas said advances in digital technology allow an animated television series to do what otherwise would be too expensive.
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