CagleMtnVol
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Mar 9, 2008
- Messages
- 25,705
- Likes
- 38,976
NBCUniversal revealed a bunch of details about its streaming competitor to Netflix and Disney Plus.
NBCUniversal announced that its upcoming streaming service "Peacock" will launch on April 15 for Comcast Xfinity X1 and Flex subscribers. It will become available nationwide on July 15, a little more than a week before the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Peacock will also have two separate tiers of service, both of which will be free to Comcast and Cox's 24 million subscribers.
How much will Peacock cost?
Peacock has three tiers: one that is free, one that is $5 a month and one that is $10 a month.
The free tier limits how much you can watch. For example, instead of all of Peacock originals, you get only select episodes of them as a free viewer.
Both paid tiers are what's called Peacock Premium, which is basically an all-access pass to everything on the service. Peacock Premium is $5 with advertising, or you can upgrade to an ad-free version for $10.
Now, if you're a Comcast or Cox customer, you can get Peacock Premium at a $5 discount. You watch with an ad-supported Premium membership free, or pay $5 for the ad-free version. NBC said it's working on more partnerships to offer this discount to a wider array of consumers.
What happens to NBC programming on Hulu?
NBC's shows streaming on Hulu aren't going anywhere for now.
NBC was a partner in Hulu for years. But last year, NBC and Comcast struck a deal with Disney to hand over NBC's minority share in Hulu, making Disney the full owner of the service. That deal included terms that essentially allow NBC to have programming both on Hulu and on Peacock at the same time.
However, in about two years, NBC has the right (but not the obligation) to pull all its programming off Hulu if it chooses.
Shows and movies: What will I be able to watch on Peacock?
The company has said Peacock will have more than 15,000 hours of content available; about half of it will be available on the free, ad-supported tier.
Generally, the free library includes:
Peacock will also include live programming, especially during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. NBC has said that Peacock will be "center stage" for streaming the Olympics this year. It will have select American and European golf tournaments.
As far as news programming, Peacock will draw from brands like NBC News, Sky News, MSNBC, and CNBC. It will stream same-day broadcasts of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Meet the Press with Chuck Todd; live news channels will include NBC News Now, Sky News and NBC/Sky Global News (a new channel); it will feature clips from Today, CNBC, MSNBC, E! News, NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press; and it will widen into original content from the Meet the Press franchise, investigative documentaries including full seasons of "Dateline" and "Lock Up," and library documentaries from NBC News and CNBC.
The following are titles NBC has confirmed will be included with Peacock.
Original drama
Movies
Universal Pictures is developing original films to debut on Peacock, and DreamWorks Animation (the studio behind Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon) will create original animated content for Peacock too.
Peacock's movie library will include past films from those studios, plus Focus Features too, including:
Spanish-language programming
Peacock will lean into Telemundo to reach Hispanic audiences with the streaming service, with more than 3,000 hours of Telemundo's programming. So far, the company has specified that includes the original dramedy Armas de Mujer, a new series from the makers of La Reina del Sur, and popular library titles 100 Dias Para Volver, Betty in NY, El Barón and Preso No. 1.
NBCUniversal announced that its upcoming streaming service "Peacock" will launch on April 15 for Comcast Xfinity X1 and Flex subscribers. It will become available nationwide on July 15, a little more than a week before the start of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Peacock will also have two separate tiers of service, both of which will be free to Comcast and Cox's 24 million subscribers.
How much will Peacock cost?
Peacock has three tiers: one that is free, one that is $5 a month and one that is $10 a month.
The free tier limits how much you can watch. For example, instead of all of Peacock originals, you get only select episodes of them as a free viewer.
Both paid tiers are what's called Peacock Premium, which is basically an all-access pass to everything on the service. Peacock Premium is $5 with advertising, or you can upgrade to an ad-free version for $10.
Now, if you're a Comcast or Cox customer, you can get Peacock Premium at a $5 discount. You watch with an ad-supported Premium membership free, or pay $5 for the ad-free version. NBC said it's working on more partnerships to offer this discount to a wider array of consumers.
What happens to NBC programming on Hulu?
NBC's shows streaming on Hulu aren't going anywhere for now.
NBC was a partner in Hulu for years. But last year, NBC and Comcast struck a deal with Disney to hand over NBC's minority share in Hulu, making Disney the full owner of the service. That deal included terms that essentially allow NBC to have programming both on Hulu and on Peacock at the same time.
However, in about two years, NBC has the right (but not the obligation) to pull all its programming off Hulu if it chooses.
Shows and movies: What will I be able to watch on Peacock?
The company has said Peacock will have more than 15,000 hours of content available; about half of it will be available on the free, ad-supported tier.
Generally, the free library includes:
- Next-day access to current seasons of NBC broadcast shows in their first season (known as freshmen series).
- Select episodes of marquee Peacock originals (but not full seasons).
- Curated genre channels, which NBC's has characterized as things like SNL Vault, Family Movie Night and Olympic Profiles.
- Complete classic series and popular movies.
- Curated daily news and sports programming, including the Olympics.
- Spanish-language content.
- Full seasons of Peacock originals.
- Next-day access to current seasons of returning NBC broadcast shows.
- Early access to NBC's late-night talk shows. The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will stream early on Peacock at 8 p.m. ET, followed by Late Night with Seth Meyers at 9 p.m. ET.
- Additional sports, like Premier League soccer.
Peacock will also include live programming, especially during the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. NBC has said that Peacock will be "center stage" for streaming the Olympics this year. It will have select American and European golf tournaments.
As far as news programming, Peacock will draw from brands like NBC News, Sky News, MSNBC, and CNBC. It will stream same-day broadcasts of NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt and Meet the Press with Chuck Todd; live news channels will include NBC News Now, Sky News and NBC/Sky Global News (a new channel); it will feature clips from Today, CNBC, MSNBC, E! News, NBC Nightly News and Meet the Press; and it will widen into original content from the Meet the Press franchise, investigative documentaries including full seasons of "Dateline" and "Lock Up," and library documentaries from NBC News and CNBC.
The following are titles NBC has confirmed will be included with Peacock.
Original drama
- Dr. Death, based on the true-crime podcast starring Jamie Dornan, Alec Baldwin and Christian Slater.
- A revival of Battlestar Galactica (itself a reboot of the 1970s sci-fi series) by Mr. Robot creator Sam Esmail.
- Brave New World, based on the dystopian novel by Aldous Huxley and starring Demi Moore and Alden Ehrenreich from Solo: A Star Wars Story.
- Angelyne, a limited series from Emmy Rossum about a fictional, surgically enhanced L.A. pop-culture icon.
- One of Us Is Lying, based on the best-selling young adult mystery-thriller.
- An anthology series that will base its first installment on Hatching Twitter, Nick Bilton's best-selling book about the creation of that social network.
- The Capture, a conspiracy thriller touching on surveillance and misinformation that ran on the BBC in the UK.
- Armas De Mujer, starring Kate del Castillo, a dramedy from the team behind Telemundo's La Reina del Sur.
- A Queer as Folk reboot.
- A kids-version of The Tonight Show.
- Rutherford Falls, starring Ed Helms, who also co-created the show with Mike Schur (the showrunner for The Good Place and co-creator of Parks and Recreation) and Sierra Teller Ornelas, who has produced ABC's Splitting Up Together and NBC's Superstore.
- Straight Talk, from Rashida Jones, about two main characters with opposing ideologies forced into an odd coupling.
- A Saved By the Bell reboot, with original cast members including Elizabeth Berkley and Mario Lopez, from 30 Rock's Tracey Wigfield.
- The Punky Brewster reboot, starring Soleil Moon Frye as a grownup version of the titular character.
- A new season of A.P.Bio, starring Glenn Howerton and Patton Oswalt.
- Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, a second movie spinoff from the series Psych.
- The Adventure Zone, a fantasy animated comedy series based on the Dungeons & Dragons podcast and best-selling graphic novel series.
- Clean Slate, starring Laverne Cox as a trans woman who returns to Alabama and reunites with her estranged father after 17 years, produced by legendary producer Norman Lear.
- Expecting, produced by Mindy Kaling, about a single woman who asks her gay best friend to be her sperm donor.
- Division One, a coming-of-age comedy about an underdog women's collegiate soccer team, produced by Amy Poehler.
- MacGruber, based on the Saturday Night Live sketch character who spawned a movie in 2010. Will Forte stars in, writes and produces this comedy series.
- Girls5Eva, produced by Tina Fey about a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 90's that reunites for one more shot at stardom.
- Lady Parts, a comedy about a female Muslim punk band that aired that aired on Channel 4 in the UK.
- Intelligence, a comedy starring David Schwimmer about a maverick American intelligence agent and a hapless British computer analyst.
- Code 404, a cop comedy.
- Hitmen, a sitcom about inept contract killers starring Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins, best know as the former hosts of The Great British Bake Off.
- Five Bedrooms, about five people who buy a house together.
- Who Wrote That, a Saturday Night Live docuseries from creator Lorne Michaels, exploring the famous personalities in front of and behind the camera.
- A stand-up special, comedy shorts and a new talk show from Kevin Hart and his LOL Network.
- A weekly late night show starring Amber Ruffin and executive produced by Seth Meyers.
- A spinoff of Bravo's The Real Housewives franchise.
- A racing series from Dale Earnhardt Jr.
- Dream Team 2020, a behind-the-scenes documentary series that follows USA Basketball superstars on their Olympic journey to Tokyo, produced in partnership with the NBA.
- Hot Water: In Deep with Ryan Lochte, the Olympian from 2016's Rio games attempts to move past past scandals and make Team USA again.
- United States of Speed, which features the American runners leading Team USA to take on the domination of Jamaica's Usain Bolt.
- Run Through the Line, a look at the creation of Nike.
- The Greatest Race, which interviews swimmers on both sides of the epic 4x100 relay at the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
- America's Got Talent: Champions
- Blindspot
- Bluff City Law
- Bring the Funny
- Chicago Fire
- Chicago Med
- Chicago P.D.
- Council of Dads
- Ellen's Game of Games
- Hollywood Game Night
- Indebted
- Law and Order: SVU
- Lincoln Rhyme
- Making It
- Manifest
- New Amsterdam
- Perfect Harmony
- Songland
- Sunnyside
- Superstore
- The Blacklist
- The Inbetween
- The Kenan Show
- The Wall
- This Is Us
- Titan Games
- World of Dance
- Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist
- Access Hollywood
- The Kelly Clarkson Show
- Days of Our Lives
- The Office (coming 2021)
- Parks and Recreation
- 30 Rock
- A-Team
- American Greed
- American Ninja Warrior
- Bad Girls Club
- Bates Motel
- Battlestar Gallactica
- Botched
- Brooklyn Nine-Nine
- Chicago Fire
- Chicago P.D.
- Chicago Med
- Cheers
- Chrisley Knows Best
- Crossing Jordan
- Covert Affairs
- Dateline
- Don't Be Tardy
- Downton Abbey
- Everybody Loves Raymond
- Face Off
- Flipping Out
- Frasier
- Friday Night Lights
- Heroes
- Hollywood Game Night
- Hollywood Medium
- House
- Jeff Foxworthy Show
- Keeping Up with the Kardashians
- Killer Couples
- King Of Queens
- Knight Rider
- Law and Order
- Law and Order: SVU
- Law and Order: Criminal Intent
- Leave It to Beaver
- Lock-Up
- Magnum P.I. (1980)
- Married to Medicine
- Married…With Children
- Miami Vice (1984)
- Million Dollar Listing
- Monk
- Murder She Wrote
- New Amsterdam
- Paranormal Witness
- Parenthood
- Psych
- Roseanne
- Royal Pains
- Saturday Night Live
- Saved by the Bell
- Snapped
- Southern Charm franchise
- Suits
- Summer House
- Superstore
- The George Lopez Show
- The Mindy Project
- The Profit
- The Purge
- The Real Housewives franchise
- Two and a Half Men
- Top Chef
- Will & Grace
- Yellowstone
Movies
Universal Pictures is developing original films to debut on Peacock, and DreamWorks Animation (the studio behind Shrek, Kung Fu Panda and How to Train Your Dragon) will create original animated content for Peacock too.
Peacock's movie library will include past films from those studios, plus Focus Features too, including:
- American Gangster
- American Pie
- American Psycho
- Back to the Future
- A Beautiful Mind
- Big Fat Liar
- The Big Lebowski
- The Blair Witch Project
- The Blues Brothers
- Boss Baby
- The Bourne franchise
- The Break-Up
- The Breakfast Club
- Bridesmaids
- Brokeback Mountain
- Bruno
- Casino
- Changeling
- Chicken Run
- Children of Men
- Cinderella Man
- The Croods
- Dallas Buyers Club
- Definitely Maybe
- The Despicable Me franchise
- Devil
- Do the Right Thing
- Dune
- Erin Brockovich
- E.T. The Extra Terrestrial
- Evan Almighty
- The Fast & Furious franchise
- Field of Dreams
- Forgetting Sarah Marshall
- Get Him to the Greek
- The Good Shepherd
- The Graduate
- Heat (1986)
- Hellboy II: The Golden Army
- How to Train Your Dragon
- It's Complicated
- Jaws
- Jurassic Park
- Jurassic Park III
- Jurassic Park: The Lost World
- Kicking & Screaming
- The Kids Are Alright
- King Kong
- Knocked Up
- Liar, Liar
- Little Fockers
- Little Rascals
- Love Happens
- Mamma Mia!
- Meet the Fockers
- Meet Joe Black
- Meet the Parents
- Moonrise Kingdom
- The Mummy
- The Mummy Returns
- Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
- Parenthood
- Prince of Egypt
- Psycho
- Ray
- The Road to El Dorado
- Scent of a Woman
- Schindler's List
- The Scorpion King
- Shark Tale
- Shrek
- Sinbad
- Something New
- Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
- Tale of Despereaux
- Trolls World Tour
- Waiting…
- Wanted
- What Dreams May Come You
- Me and Dupree
- 3-2-1 Penguins
- Beethoven
- Care Bears
- Cleopatra in Space
- Curious George library
- Father of the Pride
- Fievel's American Tail
- He-Man & Masters of the Universe
- Kody Kapow
- Madagascar: A Little Wild
- Maisy
- New Adventures of He-Man
- New Adventures of Zorro
- Postman Pat
- Punky Brewster (Animated)
- Sabrina the Teenage Witch
- She-Ra
- Shelley Duvall's Bedtime Stories
- The Chica Show
- The Mighty Ones
- TrollsTopia
- Voltron Force
- Voltron Defender of the Universe
- Woody Woodpecker
- Zafari
- Archibald's Next Big Thing, from Tony Hale of Veep and Arrested Development, this comedy features a chicken who 'yes-ands' his way through life.
- Dragon Rescue Riders, which takes Dak, Leyla and their dragon friends find strange crystals that change their powers.
- DreamWorks Where's Waldo?, an animated series based on the iconic character.
- Curious George, an animated series that continues the beloved character George for a new generation of preschoolers.
Spanish-language programming
Peacock will lean into Telemundo to reach Hispanic audiences with the streaming service, with more than 3,000 hours of Telemundo's programming. So far, the company has specified that includes the original dramedy Armas de Mujer, a new series from the makers of La Reina del Sur, and popular library titles 100 Dias Para Volver, Betty in NY, El Barón and Preso No. 1.
- 100 Días para Enamorarnos
- Al Otro Lado Del Muro
- Betty En NY
- Chiquis N' Control
- Corazón Valiente
- ¿Dónde está Elisa?
- El Barón
- El Chema
- El Rostro De La Venganza
- Guerra de Ídolos
- Historias De La Virgen Morena
- José José
- La Querida Del Centauro
- Larrymania
- Más Sabe El Diablo
- Mi Familia Perfecta
- Perro Amor
- Preso No. 1
- ¿Quién es Quién?
- Reina De Corazones
- Relaciones Peligrosas
- Santa Diabla
- The Riveras
- Un Poquito Tuyo
- Victoria
- Art House: Indie films
- Family Movie Night: Films for the whole family
- Get Spooked: Scary movies
- L&O DUN DUN: Law & Order all the time
- Latino Now by Telemundo: Películas y series en Español
- Laugh it Out: All comedy, all the time
- Nail Biters: Intense thrillers
- Olympics Docs: The stories behind the biggest Olympic athletes
- Olympics Profiles: Compelling stories about the athletes of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
- Out of This World: Sci-fi & fantasy that will blow your mind
- Peachicks: Keeping toddlers entertained and educated
- Peacock Kids: Shows for 6- to 11-year-olds
- Peacock Poker: Like a seat at a casino, 24/7
- Peacock Sports: Live, replays, and highlights from your favorite sports
- Rotten Tomatoes: Fresh film and TV recommendations, hot trailers, breaking news, and top moments
- SNL Vault: Every SNL season
- Tear Jerkers: Movies for when you want a good cry
- The Ones You Love: Classic TV and movies
- True Crime: Stories of real crimes involving real people
