Microsoft’s efforts to go up against rivals like Netflix and Amazon in the TV arena by commissioning original TV programming for its Xbox service will bear its first fruit in June this year, according to Bloomberg. Reported today, comedians_Sarah Silverman_and_Seth Green, “aspiring World Cup players” and human-like robots_will star in some of the first content to come out of Microsoft’s Xbox Entertainment Studios. Additionally,_Microsoft announced today that it had signed a deal with UK broadcaster Channel 4 to_co-produce “a bold new drama” called ‘Humans’, which will_air on the Xbox platform in North America and Channel 4 in the UK in...

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