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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