Sunday 15 December 2013

Microsoft launching original programming on Xbox in first half of 2014

Microsoft launching original programming on Xbox in first half of 2014
Dec 14th 2013, 23:15, by Chris Ziegler

At Variety event this week, Nancy Tellem — a TV industry veteran who now leads Microsoft's digital media business — noted that the company hoped to have original programming ready for Xbox Live "in the first quarter, at minimum second quarter" of next year. The company's ambitions to expand Xbox Live into a broader entertainment platform aren't new: it announced a live-action Haloseries produced by Steven Spielberg in May, and more recently added a reality show about soccer and a Rob Dyrdek-linked comedy to the docket. Thus far, though, nothing has launched, and Tellem said that production of the Halo series in particular has been "slower."
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