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Will Wright may have left the day-to-day business of making games but the creator behind Sim City, The Sims and Spore is moving on to his upcoming interactive TV show that he and his team at Super Fun Club are making for the CurrentTV network. This week CurrentTV launched the official web site for its Creation Studios which will allow viewers to interactive and contribute content to Wright's TV series.

The series itself is called Bar Karma and Wright himself talks about both the TV and the interactive portion in a video on the site which has a 1950's retro look and feel. Wright says the show is a cross between Cheers and The Twilight Zone. The video, which has some straight-faced humor, talks about how the viewers will contribute to the game's plotlines and decide which plots will be used in upcoming episodes. Bar Karma is set to start in February 2011. You can check out the video with Wright after the jump.

Last month, IGN reported that Spore and The Sims creator Will Wright was working on a TV show concept. Now it looks like Wright may have found an outlet for that idea. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Wright has gotten himself a deal with The Science Channel cable TV network.

Wright will produce shows for the channel, most likely under his own Super Fun Club company which he founded after he left Electronic Arts in 2009. Not surprisingly his shows will have some kind of interactive element and will deal with various big science themes like "time travel, different worlds and the future."