Halo eSports coming to television

343 Industries along with Pilgram Media Group from The Ultimate Fighter are teaming up to bring a reality-competition series featuring Halo 5: Guardians as its first ever title.

The deal for the “Halo 5: Guardians” show is the first project to emerge from Pilgrim Media, Lionsgate and ESL to create and distribute original eSports entertainment content for TV and digital platforms.  Since Halo launched 15 years ago, the franchise has made Microsoft more than $3 billion in worldwide sales from games, consoles, merchandise.
“We continue to be blown away by the sheer excitement surrounding eSports,” said Craig Piligian, CEO of Pilgrim. “Esports and ‘Halo’ fans are exceedingly passionate about gaming and devoted to their favorite titles and franchises — they are exactly the kind of audience we want to produce for.”
Kiki Wolfkill, 343 Industries’ studio head of Halo Transmedia, added that the reality series “will bring the intensity and extreme competition of ‘Halo 5: Guardians’ eSports to a television audience. There is no better partner than Pilgrim to give our fans insight into the world of ‘Halo’ eSports.”

Source: Variety