Zune Marketplace adding new TV episodes, will be 50% larger

Zune has just announced that over the course of the next few weeks they will be adding 400 new TV episodes along with content from the USA Network. The new content will begin to be added as of today, May 28 with more coming on May 30, June 3 and finishing up on June 6. This additional content will reportedly double the size of the current video portion of the Zune Marketplace.

The new content will consist of 19 new programs which include episodes from Comedy Central, NBC Universal, SCI FI Channel, and the USA Network. The new shows include "The Colbert Report," "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," "Friday Night Lights," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit," "Law & Order," "Life," "Lipstick Jungle," "Saturday Night Live," "Battlestar Galactica Classics," "Destination Truth," "Ghost Hunters International," "Ghost Hunters," "Who Wants to Be a Superhero?," "Dr. Steve-O," "In Plain Sight," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Monk," "Psych," and last but not least "The Starter Wife."

These new episode will remain at the same pricing points, 160 Microsoft Points for each episode, which comes out to just about $1.99 each.

[Zune.net]

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[Tracy Hite]

I wish Comedy Central would follow the lead of their 'regular' Network news counterparts with next-day podcasts of Colbert & Daily Show.