With Few Details, Lucasfilm Signals ‘Star Wars’ Plans for TV

LOS ANGELES - Now that Lucasfilm is moving full steam ahead on a new “Star Wars” trilogy, the company - now owned by Disney â€" is starting to get its TV universe in order. On Monday came word that Lucasfilm has “decided to pursue a new direction in animated programming.”

What is that direction The company gave no details. But it did say that it would no longer supply new episodes of “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” to Cartoon Network, a Time Warner-owned channel. Even so, Lucasfilm said that production will continue on “new story arcs” that would appear as “bonus content” … somewhere.

Lucasfilm also said that it was “exploring a whole new ‘Star Wars’ series set in a time period previously untouched in ‘Star Wars’ films or TV programming.” That series will be shown . . . somewhere.

“Stay tuned” is all Lucasfilm said.

The somewhere is likely Disney XD, a cable channel that Disney loosely aims at boys and contains a large amount of animated programmin.. The fledgling channel has done O.K. but not great, and Disney’s $4.06 billion acquisition of Lucasfilm last fall was partly seen as a way to supercharge it.

On Monday Lucasfilm also said that it would delay “Star Wars Detours,” a planned animated comedy series. “‘Detours’ was conceived and produced before we decided to move forward with the new ‘Star Wars’ trilogy, and in wake of that decision, Lucasfilm has reconsidered,” the company said.