Bwahahahaha. That's priceless! Yeah, coming from the man that made not just The Phantom Menace, but the entire PT.
"People thought 'Star Wars' was silly, too," he added, with a wink. "But it wasn't."
Oh no, of course it wasn't. Not my baby. No way.
Where does it say the TV show is being scrapped? It says he's working on the Clone Wars TV series and that there'll be two made for TV live action movies based in the Star Wars universe. Nowhere does it say the TV show is being scrapped. I keep thinking back to when he said he wanted to move on from Star Wars though. He's got a funny way of "moving on".