[Courtesy of StarWars.com]

NBC’s popular game show Deal or No Deal will visit a galaxy far, far away later this month with a special Star Wars themed episode.   Set to air Monday, April 28th, the two-hour episode will give two Star Wars fans the experience if a lifetime when they are joined on the show by Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher), Chewbacca and R2-D2.  The villainous Darth Vader will even be on hand, taking the role of the banker for the two-hour episode.

The episode will take a “winner take all” theme for the evening.  Two contestants will play a single-player version of the show with the added twist of having their grand total compared to each other.  Whoever has the highest score wins the game and gets to take home the prize.

The two contestants for the evening will be Elyse McCrillis and Brad Flinchum.  McCrillis’ game will start out like any other Deal or No Deal game until the models are revealed to be wearing the famous Princess Leia bikini from Return of the Jedi and he can get help from Chewie and R2-D2.

The two-hour episode airs later this month on NBC.

Written by: Michael Hickerson (SoSF Staff Journalist)

First “Robot Chicken” got the blessing of George Lucas for their upcoming parody special about “Star Wars.” Now it appears that FOX’s “Family Guy” has the blessing of Lucas to produce an episode parodying the “Star Wars” universe.

“Family Guy” creator, Seth McFarland has been given the green light to proceed to offer his own unique take on the “Star Wars” universe to open the next season of the animated series. The episode, which will run a full hour, was previewed at last month’s “Star Wars” celebration.

Of course, footage from the presentation has shown up on-line, via YouTube. If you’re interested in seeing what McFarland has in mind for his parody, you can check it out HERE

Submitted by: Cougar (SoSF Staff Reporter)
Source: Rebelscum

Mintinbox had an exclusive video interview with Rob Coleman about the new upcoming animated Star Wars series. Coleman is the animation supervisor for Industrial Light & Magic.

Here are a few of the updates and highlights Coleman gave about the series:

• Fifteen episodes are currently in various stages of production
• One episode is fully completed and two more are nearly done
• Coleman stated that he will direct five of the first twenty-six episodes
• How do they look? “They’re looking fabulous, they’re looking great….,” stated Coleman. “Our stuff is incredible compared to what’s out there…”
• Some licensees have reviewed available footage and the reaction has been very positive
• Final assembly of all the shows are being accomplished at the Skywalker Ranch