Star Wars Animated Sitcom

[ThirdMarioBro]

It’s a cultural force that has been the butt of countless parodies, Internet videos like the Star Wars kid and even hilarious YouTube reviews that are as long as the actual films they are denigrating. In some ways, it only makes sense that the creator and its parent company would get in on the act.

Lucasfilm announced Wednesday that a Star Wars-based animated sitcom is in the works.

Canadian Jennifer Hill, an Emmy and Gemini-award-winning producer for The Backyardigans, will produce the series, while Todd Grimes (Back at the Barnyard) will direct. Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matthew Senreich will act as creative consultants, and Brendan Hay, an alum of The Daily Show, has been tapped as one of the writers.

“The Star Wars universe is so dense and rich; it’s crazy to think that there aren’t normal, mundane everyday problems in a world so well-defined,” said Green, whose Robot Chicken animated TV series has already sent up Star Wars in two episodes. “And it’s even crazier to think of what those problems might be, since it’s all set in a galaxy far, far away. What do these characters do when they’re not overthrowing empires?”

Lucasfilm promises a “playful” and “irreverent” tone, although its news release did not indicate what age or demographic the series will target, or when or where it might air.

http://entertainment.timesonline.co....cle7089343.ece

Family Guy's parodies were funny, and Robot Chicken's were epic, but this? Am I the only one who thinks Star Wars has finally reached the tipping point? Arthur Fonzarelli called. He wants his water skis back.