Microsoft's Xbox Originals programming to begin this June

Microsoft will begin releasing its own branded video content this June with the launch of Xbox Originals.http://images.eurogamer.net/2013/art.../70/format/jpg
The company's upcoming slate of programming includes the much-hyped Halo TV series to be executive produced by Steven Spielberg, and a mysterious Halo "digital feature" executive produced by Ridley Scott and due out by the end of 2014.Microsoft's full list of programming, just posted to Xbox Wire, also includes the six-part documentary series Signal to Noise, an episode of which will cover Atari's long-buried copies of ET that were unearthed in the New Mexico desert over the weekend.There's also the Channel 4 and Xbox collaboration Humans, an eight-part sci-fi TV show set in an alternate present day where families have robot servants. A remake of a popular Swedish series, the show will air on Xbox in North America and on Channel 4 in the UK in 2015.The only project with a release date is Microsoft's live and interactive coverage of Bonnaroo, a Tennessee music festival which will take place from 13th - 15th June.A separate section of Microsoft's slate, titled "projects in development", includes a number of newly-announced series or pilots.Deadlands will focus on the undead Western pen-and-paper RPG of the same name, while Robot Chicken creators Stoopid Buddy Stoodios are working on a new stop-motion show named Extraordinary Believers.Then there's Fearless, an unscripted series starring an Australian Navy bomb clearance diver, and Gun Machine, a detective thriller based on the novel of the same name.There's also an untitled comedy series to introduce various up-and-coming acts, the first episode of which will be hosted by Sarah Silverman, and finally a limited series based on the Winterworld graphic novels, which chronicle humanity's struggle for survival in a post-apocalyptic world is encased by ice.

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