Clearly, George Lucas can't get enough of Star Wars. The film-maker, who once vowed to leave his lucrative space opera behind and return to his independent film-making roots, is releasing an animated Star Wars film later this year, to be followed by a live-action television series focusing on some of the minor characters from the six feature films.

"I felt there were a lot more Star Wars stories left to tell," he said in a statement announcing the new projects. "I was eager to start telling some of them through animation and, at the same time, push the animation forward."

The new film, called Star Wars: The Clone Wars is being released through the Time Warner company, which is also the parent of two cable television channels, TNT and the Cartoon Network, where the television series will start airing in the autumn. According to the advance publicity, the new releases will explore the period between the fifth film, Attack of the Clones, and the sixth, Revenge of the Sith. In Star Wars chronology – mixed up by the fact that Lucas started his saga halfway in with the first film in 1977 – that means the time period between Episode II and Episode III.

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