Ok...I've stated that I can't recall where or when I read the article from a European magazine with Fisher. I will continue to try to find it. Until then...I don't give a shit if you buy my statements or not. I'm telling you mainly info from an inside source.
If you doubt the validity of my source, then I give you this:
I stated here and at the WB B5 forum about a month or two before the official announcement that BG already had 13 eps gauranteed and that all of the mini-series cast signed back on. I stated that my inside source knew this and that the series was a done deal before the mini-series even hit the air. No one believed me then. About a month or so after that, the "official" announcement came. And lo and behold, it is that the BG series has been greenlit, with 13 eps and all of the cast re-signed. I knew this info when the mini-series aired, but was told to say nothing. I waited for a month or so and leaked it in a way that my source couldn't get in trouble. As I said, no one believed me then either. But the source was dead on.
As for the series mentioned on the SW website...at one time about three months ago a particular series GL was trying to do was a Knights of the Old Republic type series, but has since fallen through. Now, (oh, and I knew about a second season on the "Clone Wars" cartoons a ways back, just didn't care to mention it cause I didn't care) the series is being pitched to HBO, though FX wants it as well. It will be done it seems like BG, with shortened seasons and more emphasis placed on making fewer eps better. Word from my source (and I only got this info today) is that it's going to be the NJO and that the first two seasons are strictly arced and outlined. While we will not, at least at this point, see the original cast characters in the series, we will hear about them repeatedly, but will mainly follow the Solo kids, etc. This new series will in fact help to set up the new trilogy. How this will all work out in the end I don't know. I can only tell you what my source tells me.
AND STOP FRELLING CALLING ME SOME STUPID FANBOY! It's rude. I'm not imagining this and I don't go searching the net for rumors of any kind....especially since I think it's BORING and I have lost a lot of my expectations from SW because of the pre-quels. I have more important things to do with my own films and work to play searchy-searchy rumor-mill tripe. Why would I care to carry rumors (that I could never have seen since I don't look for them) to you when I don't pay half attention to what my source says when they're going on about details. I pick up on the big stuff. If the subject comes up, I share it when I'm thinking about it. Sorry you feel the need to jump my shit, so from now on...if anyone cares to hear anything... tough....I don't promote rumor and don't care one way or the other.
I can share my source's info, but not if I'm attacked personally for it. So...if you want to know...PM me. Maybe I'll tell if you my source tells me anything. Till then...I'm done. The above info is the last. Hope it's good for you, because this has become less than a pleasant thing for me.
Bye.
CE