View Full Version : Microsoft Teams Up With Hollywood to Offer Original Web Shows on MSN


Michael Wisniewski
May 3rd, 2006, 05:02 PM
New York Times article (http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/03/arts/03micr.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) ... Four shows have already been given the go-ahead, including a short-form comedy that can be described, in classic high-concept Hollywood style, as "The Office" meets "Reno 911" meets "Airplane," doled out in two-and-a-half minute bits starting this fall. Adding to the sitcom verisimilitude: Tom Arnold is close to signing on to star as the lovably flawed pilot for a commuter airline.