From the ashes of the abandoned project Kangaroo comes a new internet tv service showing tv episodes from the BBC, Channel 4 and Channel Five.

The service which will offer around 3,500 hours of TV content at launch by March.which hpes to fully launch by March is starting on a invitation only trial basis and hoping to create a userbase of around 10,000 within the first month.

Available to viewers in the UK, the service will offer a mixture of free streams that will be ad supported and premium paid to view shows. SeeSaw is rumoured to be negotiation a deal to show “best moments” from the Olympic games.

It is thought that SeeSaw also has deals in place with Channel 4 and Channel Five, which have not officially been announced. ITV remains reluctant to strike third-party deals for its content.

As a completely new brand to the burgeoning UK video-on-demand market, SeeSaw is backing its launch with a £5m ad campaign. A message on the site says:- “We’re starting small and letting people in gradually. That’s why SeeSaw Beta is currently invitation-only. We’d like to see what people think of our service then make it even better.”

The company, which is looking to become a “one stop shop” aggregator for online TV programming, is already looking ahead to getting the service distributed on other platforms beyond the computer and looking to offer its service straight to tv sets via a range of hardware and set-top box hardware.

Beta users can sign up here

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