  We present here "The XMM-Newton Bright Serendipitous Survey", a survey
program conducted by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Center. In particular we
discuss the main goals of this project, we present the sample(s) and the
current optical breakdown and we discuss some broad band spectral properties as
derived from an hardness ratio analysis of the single sources. Finally we
report the 4.5--7.5 keV Log(N$>$S)-LogS for type 1 and type 2 AGN.
