NBC’s streaming service, Peacock, will launch tomorrow. Peacock will offer more than 20,000 hours of premium content from networks and studios including NBC, Bravo, USA Network, SYFY, Oxygen, E!, CNBC, MSNBC, NBCSN, Golf Channel, Universal Kids, A&E, ABC, CBS, The CW, FOX, HISTORY, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, Focus Features, Illumination, ViacomCBS, Paramount, Lionsgate, Warner Bros., and Blumhouse. In addition, the service will feature Peacock Original movies and shows; more than 30 curated channels; current season series and specials from NBC and Telemundo; live news and sports; as well as daily trending highlights from “TODAY”, “NBC Nightly News”, “Meet the Press”, “Noticias Telemundo”, MSNBC, CNBC, NBC Sports, E! News and Access Hollywood.
Peacock offers an ad-supported free tier and an ad-supported premium tier for $4.99/month, serving no more than five minutes of advertising per hour. An ad-free version of the premium tier is also available for $9.99/month.
Chances are it will be available on most of your streaming devices but today, NBC also outlined just what’s included in each of the different service tiers:
Both free and premium tiers will feature current season hits from NBC, timely news, sports and pop culture highlights, and dozens of genre channels including live news from NBC News Now and Sky News, exclusive curated channels featuring the best moments from your favorite shows like “The Office” (“Office Shorts”), “Saturday Night Live” (“SNL Vault”), “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” (“Fallon Tonight”), “Late Night With Seth Meyers” (“Seth Meyers Now”), and exclusive genre channels like “CNBC Make It”, “TODAY All Day”, “CNBC Ka-Ching”, “American Greed”, “80s Mixtape”, “True Crime”, “Kiss Me Deadly”, “Peacock Reality”, “Out of This World”, “Caso Cerrado” and “I Love Jenni”, among others.
FREE TIER HIGHLIGHTS
The only new streamer to offer a free, premium tier of service, Peacock will deliver more than 13,000 hours of content—completely free—including a vast library of popular movies like the “The Bourne Identity”, “The Bourne Supremacy”, “The Bourne Ultimatum”, “Jurassic Park”, “Jurassic Park III”, “Tully”, “Phantom Thread”, “The Interpreter”, “American Psycho”, “The Matrix”, “The Matrix Reloaded”, “The Matrix Revolutions”, “The Blair Witch Project”, “The Mummy”, “Joe”, “Fletch”, “Fletch Lives”, “The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury, Fear”, “Psycho”, “Do the Right Thing”, “Howard the Duck”, “Billy Elliot”, “The Birds”, “Willie”, “Fear” and “Loathing In Las Vegas”, “The Last House On The Left”, “I Am Ali”, “In The Name of the Father”, “Lone Ranger”, “The Hitcher”, “Law Abiding Citizen”, “The Sting”, “What Dreams May Come”, “Fried Green Tomatoes”, “One True Thing”, “Gosford Park”, “Dracula” and “Dragnet”.
The free tier will offer new episodes of NBC current season series one week after they air including hits “This Is Us” and “The Blacklist”, sample episodes of Peacock Originals, and hundreds of iconic shows including comedies like “30 Rock”, “Parks and Recreation”, “Saturday Night Live”, “Saved by the Bell”, “Punky Brewster”, “The Johnny Carson Show”, “The Carol Burnett Show”, “Real Husbands of Hollywood” and “Everybody Hates Chris”; dramas like “Friday Night Lights”, “Downton Abbey”, “Parenthood”, “Monk”, “Heroes”, “Psych”, “The Game”, “Suits”, “Sacred Lies”, “Royal Pains”, “Battlestar Galactica”, “Columbo”, “Hunter”, “The Rockford Files”, “Dateline”, “21 Jump Street”, “Highlander”, “Leave It To Beaver”, “Munsters” and “Murder She Wrote”; reality series like “Below Deck”, “Southern Charm”, “Chrisley Knows Best”, “Botched”, “Flipping Out”, “Million Dollar Listing New York”, “Pawn Stars”, “Storage Wars”, “Real Housewives of Dallas”, “Jay Leno’s Garage”, “Shahs of Sunset” and “Undercover Boss”; competition series like “Top Chef Masters”, “Hell’s Kitchen”, “Hollywood Game Night” and “American Ninja Warrior Jr.”; kids series including “Kong”, “The Animated Series”, “Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures”, “Fievel’s American Tails” and “Woody Woodpecker”; and Spanish-language titles like “Betty en NY”, “I Love Jenni”, “Reina De Corazones”, “The Riveras”, “Preso No. 1”, “Caso Cerrado”, “El Baron”, “El Chema”, “Larrymania”, “Perro Amor”, “Mi Familia Perfecta”, “Quien es Quien”, “Victoria” and “Donde Esta Elisa”.
PREMIUM TIER HIGHLIGHTS
For those wanting even more, Peacock Premium will feature access to all 20,000 hours of programming on the platform, including everything in the free tier plus the full catalog of Peacock Originals including “Brave New World”, “The Capture”, “Intelligence”, “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home”, “DreamWorks Where’s Waldo?”, “DreamWorks Cleopatra In Space” and ”Curious George”; all library series including treasured favorites like “Two and a Half Men”, “Everybody Loves Raymond”, “George Lopez”, “Jeff Foxworthy Show”, “King of Queens”, “Superstore”, “Frasier”, “Cheers”, “House”, “The Affair”, “Yellowstone”, “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “Ray Donovan”, “Swedish Dicks” and “American Ninja Warrior”; kids series including “DreamWorks Dragons: Riders of Berk”, “Care Bears” and “Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot”;and the entire movie collection including unforgettable titles like “Shrek”, “Lone Survivor”, “Ted”, “Identity Thief”, “Children of Men”, “Charlie Wilson’s War”, “Forgetting Sarah Marshall”, “Frankenstein”, “Kicking and Screaming”, “Larry Crowne”, and “You, Me & Dupree”.
The premium tier will also provide earlier access to programming, such as next-day access to new episodes of current season NBC shows including ”America’s Got Talent”, “Blindspot”, “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”, ”A Little Late with Lilly Singh”, “Saturday Night Live”, “Superstore”, “Law & Order: SVU”, “Chicago P.D.”, “Chicago Fire”, “Chicago Med”, “New Amsterdam”, “Manifest”, “The Titan Games”, “Hollywood Game Night”, “World of Dance”, “The Kelly Clarkson Show”, “Access Hollywood”, “Days of Our Lives”, “Dateline”, “NBC Nightly News” and ”Meet the Press”, and Telemundo series including “100 Días Para Enamorarnos”, “Celia, Cennet”, “Enemigo Intimo”, “La Doña”, “Minuto Para Ganar” and “Noticias Telemundo”. Exclusive access to “Late Night With Seth Meyers” and “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” at 8:00 pm ET will only be available on Peacock Premium when the shows return to in-studio production.
While that is quite a bit of information, there’s even more as Peacock will regularly add new content including movies and original shows. All the information can be found at https://www.peacocktv.com/
