Star Wars Celebration VI: Ian Mc Darmid would like to put the cover back ...

IGN gives us an account of the interview with Ian Mc Darmid alias Palpatine / Sidious which took place today as part of Celebration VI.

And it was Palpatine himself who brought up the subject of vaporware most famous in history (since Duke Nukem Forever was released ...): The Star Wars TV series (see this article for a timeline of the facts).

I reassure you right away, no major revelation has taken place. Ian Mc Darmid just mentioned that if the series whose action takes place between Episodes III and IV ever sees the light of day, he would very much like to reprise his role as Chancellor Palpatine / Darth Sidious. He would take a dim view if another actor could play this character for him. 

Mc Darmid mentioned Hayden Christensen, stressing that his performance had not been judged at its fair value. He also added that he felt even more evil in Palpatine's costume than Sidious's, like a current politician would be.

In short, we haven't learned much about this TV series, and we are talking about the problems of financing the project, the exorbitant cost of special effects, etc, etc ...