London-based Flawless Media, is collaboration with Lucasfilm and Twentieth Century Fox, is making Star Wars: Unsung Heroes Edition, a 10 x 3-minute series profiling an Ewok, Kenny Baker aka R2D2, a creature effects artist, a principal trumpeter from the London Symphony Orchestra and an Oscar-winning costume designer.
Each vignette is to be interspersed throughout the channel?s schedule and includes footage from relevant Star Wars movies including Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.
In a first for Sci Fi UK, the programmes, sponsored in the UK by leading games publisher Activision, have been licensed across NBC Universal's network of European channels: 13th Street in France and Spain, Studio Universal in Italy and Sci Fi in Germany.
The first features Nick Gillard talking about working with Hayden Christensen and Ewan McGregor on Episode III, with footage from the duel. Thanks to frank for the alert.