I was at the Sansweet panel at Wondercon. I did not stay for the q & a because I was too worked up over the crap I had just been subjected to about the fan club presidency. AND they showed a piece on how the SPFX were done for the prequels. Well, after seeing that you could tell why those movies were so straightforward and boring, as if we didn't already know. It was like a video essay on how to zap all energy of physical believability out of a film. I wanted to stay...I wanted to hear somebody ask the ? so much. I was afraid of doing it myself and being attacked by a bunch of new gen SW fans...them dragging me down the aisle and eating my brains out like zombies. I don't know, but I had to leave. It was so disappointing. The only thing I thought sounded cool was the new lego game for the OT.
What I did hear of the live action series didn't seem to have it set DURING the OT, but before it. I don't think Sansweet had exact timetables. Only the vague 'in between Eps III - IV'. So unless it was discussed in the q & a more, he didn't point to the series being actually DURING ep IV or anything like that.