Cartoon Network announced during a special “Alien X” episode of the popular “Ben 10″ series this weekend that “Star Wars: The Clone Wars” would premiere on the network on October 3rd, 2008 at 9:00 pm EST.

The show recently made its debut on the big screen, and was met with decidedly “mixed” reviews. Personally, I enjoyed the film, and my daughter (arguably the target demo – not sure if they ever “target” girls for this type of thing) really enjoyed it, and was looking forward to watching the tv series.

I’m actually kind of surprised to see its coming so soon. The network promises a new adventure ever week, and the trailer they showed during the “Ben 10″ episode looked even better than the trailer for the movie – so I’m excited to see where they go with it.