Xbox Entertainment Studios

Not to be confused with former parent company Xbox Game Studios.

Xbox Entertainment Studios was a short-lived American television and movie studio based in Santa Monica, California created internally by Microsoft Studios in 2012, in order to create "interactive television content" for Xbox Live.^[2]

Xbox Entertainment Studios

Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	2012; 13 years ago (2012)
Defunct	October 29, 2014; 10 years ago (2014-10-29)
Fate	Closed
Headquarters	Santa Monica, California , United States
Key people	Nancy Tellem (president)
Services	Film production Television production
Parent	Microsoft Studios
Footnotes / references [1]

On July 17, 2014, Microsoft confirmed that the studio would be closing.^[3] On October 29, 2014, both the vice president and the president of the company departed, and the company was officially closed.^[1]

History

At time of closure, Xbox Entertainment Studios was developing their first projects: a documentary about the video game crash of 1983,^[4] a science-fiction drama titled Humans and a live action television series based on the Halo franchise in collaboration with film producer Steven Spielberg.^[5] Future projects were to have included a remake of the BBC sci-fi series Blake's 7,^[6] a reboot of the Canadian children's hospital documentary series Little Miracles, and an autobiographical series about rapper Nas.^[7] The studio also intended to co-produce certain live events for Xbox Live, including future editions of the Call of Duty Championship, the Miss Teen USA beauty pageant and the VGX.^[8]

Before the closure was announced, the studio released a street soccer focused reality series titled Every Street United to coincide with the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Before closing, it released the video game documentary Atari: Game Over and the series spun off from Halo.^[3]

In September 2014, The Hollywood Reporter reported that AMC was in talks to acquire the rights to revive Humans and that casting was underway.^[9]

Several years after its closure, it was revealed that the studio were developing additional projects before closing, such as an adult animated series based on the Conker franchise.^[10]

Original programming

Xbox Entertainment Studios developed original films and series in collaboration with a variety of studios:

Series

Title	Genre	Premiere	Episodes	Length
Every Street United	Reality/Sports	June 15, 2014	1 season, 8 episodes	25-31 min.
Halo: Nightfall	Drama	November 11, 2014	1 season, 5 episodes	23-29 min.

Films

Title	Genre	Premiere	Length
Atari: Game Over[11]	Documentary	November 20, 2014	66 min.

Specials

Title	Genre	Premiere	Format	Length
Bonnaroo 2014 Live Festival Experience[12]	Live Music	June 12, 2014	Special (Live Event)	72 hrs.
Miss Teen USA 2014[13]	Beauty pageant	August 2, 2014	Special (Live Event)	120 min.

Cancelled Series

Title	Genre	Producer(s)	Director(s)	Premiere	Episodes	Time
3-2-1 Contact[14]	Educational	Sesame Workshop		02009TBA	02009TBA	02009TBA
A Walk in Your Shoes[14]	Reality	Breakthrough Entertainment		02009TBA	02009TBA	02009TBA
Big Kids[14]	Comedy			02009TBA	02009TBA	02009TBA
Blake's 7 Remake[15]	Sci-fi-drama	Georgeville TV	Martin Campbell	02009TBA 2014	02009TBA	02009TBA
Conker's Big Break[14]	Adult comedy			02009TBA	02009TBA	02009TBA
Cro[14]	Edutainment	Sesame Workshop		02009TBA	02009TBA	02009TBA
The Electric Company[14]	Educational	Sesame Workshop		02009TBA	02009TBA	02009TBA
Untitled Halo live-action series[16]	Live-Action	Steven Spielberg	TBA	02009TBA 2014	02009TBA	02009TBA
Humans[17]	Sci-Fi	Kudos	TBA	02009TBA 2015	8 Episodes	60 min.
Little Miracles[14]	Reality	Breakthrough Entertainment		02009TBA	02009TBA	02009TBA
Out There[14]	Teen drama	Sesame Workshop		02009TBA	02009TBA	02009TBA
Sponk![14]	Game show			02009TBA	02009TBA	02009TBA
Square One[14]	Edutainment	Sesame Workshop		02009TBA	02009TBA	02009 60 min.
Street Dreams [18]	Biography	TBA	TBA	02009TBA 2014	02009TBA	30 min.