 She placed third on "Entertainment Weekly"s 2008 list of the 25 smartest people in TV for restoring CBS’s entire prime-time line-up quickly after the 100-day writers’ strike.In June, 2012, reports surfaced that Microsoft was looking to hire Tellem to head the software giant’s entertainment division, which included Zune and the company’s Xbox and Xbox Live products.In September, 2012, Tellem joined the company as entertainment and digital media president, and set about putting together a team to develop series that would be available exclusively through the Xbox platform.