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NBCUniversal has revealed a launch date for Peacock: The new streaming service will debut nationally on Wednesday, July 15, the company announced on Thursday. However, Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Flex customers will get early access to the platform beginning Wednesday, April 15.
It was also revealed that the service will offer a free, ad-supported tier, as well as options for ad-free service. Peacock Free and Peacock Premium (the latter of which costs $4.99 a month for non-bundled Comcast and Cox subscribers) both will come with ads, but premium customers can upgrade to an ad-free experience for an additional $5 per month. (Any customer can also purchase the ad-free experience directly for $9.99 per month.)
Interestingly, Peacock Free subscribers will only have access to “select episodes of marquee Peacock originals,” while premium subscribers will be able to watch full seasons of original projects.
Peacock has at least 20 scripted series in various stages of development, including a Saved by the Bell revival, a Punky Brewster sequel and a Brave New World adaptation. All of these original series are detailed in the gallery attached at right, which includes the projects announced on Thursday.
In addition to original series, Peacock will feature a robust selection of library content. The service will house all episodes of 30 Rock, Bates Motel, Battlestar Galactica, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Cheers, Covert Affairs, Downton Abbey, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, Friday Night Lights, House, The King of Queens, Married… With Children, Monk, The Office, Parenthood, Parks and Recreation, Psych, Royal Pains, Saturday Night Live, Superstore and Will & Grace.
Newly announced TV acquisitions include Dick Wolf’s Law & Order and #OneChicago franchises, George Lopez, Two and a Half Men and Yellowstone.
Additionally, Peacock Premium subscribers will get early access to NBC’s late-night series. Starting in July, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will be available at 8 pm ET each night, followed by Late Night With Seth Meyers at 9 pm ET.
Peacock isn’t the only new streaming service set to launch this year: WarnerMedia previously announced that HBO Max will go live in May (exact date TBA; for additional details, click here).
Do you plan to subscribe to Peacock? Tell us in the comments below.
Nothing on this service for me. More money for HBO Max!
I’m surprised Will & Grace won’t be an exclusive on HBO Max.
Why would Will and Grace have anything to do with HBO Max? It airs and is produced by NBC?
Will and Grace is ending. I’m sure once the original’s deal with HULU is done, it’ll be a Peacock exclusive.
Whoops! Thought it was a Warner Bros. production for the longest time.
One of Us Is Lying is going to series or not?
It’s weird that Two and a Half Men is included.
Big Bang cost too much so they couldn’t afford to pickup both. Probably saw more value in buying South Park which is still producing new episodes (which they will get the day after air).
If they actually pick up The Adventure Zone, I will definitely subscribe. All these streaming services are making me tired though.
Same. Might as well go back to dish and DVR. By the time we all pay for each stations streaming service just to get their content, it’s going to be as much or more than cable/dish. Uggg.
Will this be available internationally? This would be interesting for me. In iceland my only option is currently netflix (with a quite limited range – the only thing available on this list is brooklyn nine nine.
I think that is too expensive for what little they are offering. Was curious about the Save by the Bell series, until they cast a Tran-sexual as the main “hot girl.” HBO Max, take my money!
Oh no, did your fragile masculinity get hurt?
lol
A+ response, bro!
He’s just afraid he’ll be attracted to the transgender actress and get confused about what it means.
HBO Max will gladly take the outrageous $15 a month from a snowflake.
No
Peacock Free sounds like it’ll run similar to the way many cable networks’ streaming channels do, where they make select episodes or entire seasons of their shows available for free to viewers without a cable subscription. Hopefully they’ll make the new Psych movie available for everyone. If not, I’ll sign up for Premium long enough to watch it.
Psych movie is only reason to watch the streaming service so far.
I hear you.. That’s only reason I’ll be subscribing.. I love Psych and can’t wait for psych 2.
I am also hoping the Psych movie will be for all. If not I’ll subscribe for a month then drop it.
Nah. Nothing interesting with this. We’re reaching peak streaming, if we haven’t already.
Every entity shouldn’t have a streaming platform. It isn’t sustainable.
I get where you’re coming from. And I definitely think there will be culling of streaming services at some point. But I think paying $5-$10/mo for 4-5 streaming services is much more sustainable than paying for cable. At least for the consumer. I’m interested in how the economics work out for the companies themselves, though. The CBS broadcast network definitely makes more money than CBS All Access. As streaming starts to overtake broadcast, I wonder if monthly subscription fees will be enough to sustain services like that. Netflix is huge because it was the first to get there. Comcast/NBC/Peacock will be fine because Comcast owns the internet. Same with Warner/HBO/AT&T. But the others, who aren’t necessarily able to integrate the content they own with the services they provide, I’m not so sure. A streaming service with 10,000,000 subscribers at $7/mo only has an operating budget of $70,000,000. It makes sense at the beginning to take on debt to build content libraries and attract customers, but at some point, it’s not going to be sustainable on the part of the companies themselves. I can’t imagine all of these networks and their streaming services are going to capture 100,000,000 subscribers.
I’m not a CFO, obviously, but I don’t see how the numbers work long-term for most of these services. Again, I think this is ultimately good for the consumer, but at some point prices will either rise to the point where it’s not a good deal for the customer anymore, or many of these media companies will be shut down, sold, or scaled back.
Well the numbers your saying are missing an important factor. That would be 70,000,000 a month not for a year, for a year that would be 840,000,000 from those same subscribers
True. But let’s round that up to an even billion for simplicity’s sake. The content deals companies like Netflix are making with producers would eat that up really fast. In the last year, there have been several reports of these folks inking 9-figure deals with streaming services – and that doesn’t even cover the actual cost of production, actor salaries, etc. House of Cards reportedly spent $100m on its first season alone. Amazon’s LotR series is rumored to cost a billion dollars on its own. That’s just one show — and one show can’t sustain a network. How long can these services afford that?
Oh I’m not arguing with your points really just more clarifying the numbers used were over different or unspecified amounts of time. I agree not all services will make it but that’s just a risk/bet they take that their content will be better and/or get more buzz so it becomes 1 of the successes.
Boring!
HBO Max, I’m all in!
My big question is, will Psych 2 be available on the free version??!
You know that’s right.
HAHAHAHA!
Yeah right. That’s funner than the comedies Peacock will produce.
They had me at Brooklyn 99 and Psych.
Does anyone know what this means for the NBC content on Hulu?
I would assume once the deals expire, it will be gone.
Per AdWeek: In about two years, NBCU has the right to take all its content off of Hulu — if it chooses.
Well sounds like I will get the premium tier for free being a Cox cable subscriber. If I wasn’t, I don’t see anything in the list that would make me want to subscribe. I love Psych, but for 1 movie, it isn’t worth the money. But I will gladly take it for free.
None of that interest me
Wish HBO MAX and Peacock would arrive sooner.
I am not interested in old reruns. If I am going to pay for TV, I want new original content with high quality streaming.
Cool story bro except every single streaming service starts with/has reruns in addition to their new shows otherwise the services would start with only a handful of shows and no one would purchase.
Are Frasier and Married…With Children going to be exclusive to Peacock?
So how about soaps that ran/run on NBC? Will we be able to watch Days of Our Lives on the service?
Hadn’t thought of that. I’d gladly watch Another World, but Proctor and Gamble probably owns it.
It would be awesome if they reran the old soaps!
Peacock needs more Xena: Warrior Princess!
Both the iconic and ground breaking original series AND a limited Xena: Warrior Princess revival or an ongoing reboot.
I wonder if the show Undateable will be on the Peacock?
I watch two shows on NBC – The Blacklist (which seems to be getting less interesting by the episode) and Chicago PD. I get current episodes On Demand with RCN and older ones on ION, so I’m not paying for any streaming. NBC thinks Punky Brewster is new? They need to come out of their coma – it’s an old series. Didn’t watch it back then and not interested in watching it now. Too many over-the-sir stations are reviving old shows and not all of them are succeeding.
Just another service showing a bunch of old re-runs!
If they add Night Court, I’m in.