Star Wars: The Expanded Universe

The novels and the stories were so central to what star wars was decades ago that's what gave characters like thron and pellion who are making their transition to live action now. i wonder whether that'll still happen now that there are constant tv shows in theory maybe some movies someday will we still get breakout characters from the books where we get a dr afra tv series for instance? I'd be curious to hear whether people are are digging into this stuff as much as they used to or whether they find that there's just so much on screen now that it's hard to find the time  I hope they do because there's still a lot of great stuff and i'm about to