Microsoft working on television for Xbox

Football reality, sci-fi thrillers, sketch comedy and an animated series.
Text: Mike Holmes
Published 2014-04-07

Microsoft are apparently working with Channel 4, and comedians Seth Green and Sarah Silverman, to create new and unique television programming for Xbox.

The report on <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-04-07/microsoft-goes-hollywood-in-amazon-like-programming-push.html">Bloomberg<a/> suggests that we can expect the shows to start in June with Every Street United (a reality show with footballs in it) and Humans (sci-fi thriller co-produced by Channel 4). Sarah Silverman and Michael Cera are said to prepping a comedy sketch show, while Seth Green and the team behind Robot Chicken are set to make a stop-motion animated series. There's also two more shows that haven't been discussed as yet.

"We aren't trying to find something that's going to be accepted by the largest common denominator, which is what a lot of people in the business look for," said Nancy Tellem, the exec brought in to lead Microsoft's push into the television market. "We're focused on what we feel our audience on our platform wants."

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