I think this is how Steven Spielberg got started - Microsoft and the New York Television Festival announced today the Xbox Live Originals contest. It gives aspiring television producers the opportunity to create a pilot that could be chosen for the first original series developed specifically for the Xbox Live online gaming and entertainment network. Think Project Greenlight but without Ben Affleck around to make it suck.
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Microsoft will award the winning entrant a $100,000 budget and an opportunity for a six-episode commitment to air the television series on Xbox Live. The pilot episode of the winning series is scheduled to debut this fall at the third annual NYTVF, the industry’s first showcase for independent television, before being featured exclusively on Xbox Live.
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To participate in the contest, entrants must produce and submit a short comedy pilot running between five and 15 minutes long. Submissions will be accepted from today through June 29, 2007, from contestants in any of the 25 countries currently supporting Xbox Live. A group of selected finalists will be shown on Marketplace’s video-on-demand service in July, and a winner will be announced at the end of the month. The creators of the winning pilot will receive a budget of $100,000 and an opportunity to produce six additional episodes of the comedy series for Xbox Live and the first episode will premiere at an exclusive event at the 2007 NYTVF in September. Official rules to the Xbox Live Originals contest are available at http://www.newyorktelevisionfestival.com/2007_contests_xbox.htm
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To participate in the contest, entrants must produce and submit a short comedy pilot running between five and 15 minutes long. Submissions will be accepted from today through June 29, 2007, from contestants in any of the 25 countries currently supporting Xbox Live. A group of selected finalists will be shown on Marketplace’s video-on-demand service in July, and a winner will be announced at the end of the month. The creators of the winning pilot will receive a budget of $100,000 and an opportunity to produce six additional episodes of the comedy series for Xbox Live and the first episode will premiere at an exclusive event at the 2007 NYTVF in September. Official rules to the Xbox Live Originals contest are available at http://www.newyorktelevisionfestival.com/2007_contests_xbox.htm
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Wanna play? - The downloads for the two new "Halo 2" maps, Desolation and Tombstone, will be available tomorrow. If anyone is interested in playing, I'll be online around 10pm tomorrow.
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