Star Wars: Knights (2015 TV series)

Star Wars: Knights is an upcoming animated series that will be produced by Lucasfilm and Lucasfilm Animation. It takes place before the film series, during the era of the Old Republic, in which the Jedi Order battles the growing threat that is the Sith army, meanwhile a new evil rises from the ashes. The series is scheduled to premiere in Spring 2015 on Disney XD. Christopher Yost (The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes) and Greg Weisman (Young Justice, Star Wars Rebels) will serve as show runners.

Development
Following the cancellation of Disney XD's Star Wars Rebels, Disney announced that a new series had entered production and would air on XD as a replacement for the failed Rebels series. Christopher Yost confirmed his involvement in the summer of 2014. That same month Greg Weisman revealed the series' title to be Star Wars: Knights and that it would fcous on the period of the Old Republic with original characters created for the show.