Five years ago at E3, the Halo TV Show was announced alongside Halo: The Master Chief Collection and be a flagship series for Xbox Entertainment Studios. It eventually came to pass that the studio was shutdown and we were left with the yearly status update of, “It’s still being worked on.” Thanks to an announcement on Thursday, we’re finally seeing the first signs of daylight from this series with an official announcement from Xbox and Showtime on a production start date in early 2019. In the words of the Prophet of Truth, “There are those who said this day would never come… what have they to say now?”