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 NBCUniversal has formally announced details of its
upcoming Peacock streaming service. The service will launch with three tiers.
One is the ad-supported Peacock Free which will offer 7,500 hours of programming
including access to movies and classic TV shows. That will be available to
everyone. The second is the ad-supported Peacock Premium, which will give
viewers access to a full 15,000 hours of programming including sports and NBC’s
late-night talk shows which will be available to view hours before they air on
the regular network. It will be free to Comcast Xfinity TV and Cox
Communications subscribers, but will cost $4.99 for everyone else. The third is
an ad-free version of Peacock Premium. It is $4.99 to Comcast Xfinity TV and Cox
Communications subscribers but will cost $9.99 for everyone else. Original
content for the service will only exist on this version. Both tiers will have
access to around 400 existing TV shows including 30 Rock, Battlestar Galactica,
Cheers, the three Chicago series, House, the three Law & Order series and
Saturday Night Live. There will be over 600 movies available, including the Fast
& Furious, Jason Bourne, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park franchises along
with Jaws, Field of Dreams, Casino, Do The Right Thing and E.T. the Extra
Terrestrial. Peacock will have exclusive streaming rights to Universal’s
upcoming film slate and so Universal’s output deal with FX will end. Universal’s
HBO deal will continue so HBO gets Universal films three months after the home
video release then three months after that the films will come to Peacock. The
plan is ultimately to have every single movie ever made by Universal on Peacock.
The service will launch in the United States initially on April 15th but there’s
a catch since only Comcast X1 and Flex customers will have access to it on that
date. Everyone else has to wait until July 15th. The original content for
Peacock Premium will include: a MacGruber TV series starring Will Forte; Tina
Fey’s Girls5Eva, a comedy about a one-hit-wonder girl group from the ’90s that
reunite; Amy Poehler’s Division One, a coming-of-age comedy about an underdog
women’s collegiate soccer team that gets a new female coach; Mindy Kaling’s
Expecting which centers on Ellie, an independent but perpetually single music
manager who has always wanted a family but never found a man worthy of the role
until now; Clean Slate, which will star comedian George Wallace and Laverne Cox.
Cox will play Wallace’s son who is now a daughter coming back to help in the
family business; the animated comedy series The Adventure Zone based on the
McElroy family’s Dungeons & Dragons podcast and bestselling graphic novel
series; a racing series from Dale Earnhardt Jr. and the comedy Intelligence
starring David Schwimmer. Peacock also has a first-look deal with Kevin Hart’s
Laugh Out Loud network. Peacock had already announced a Battlestar Galactica
reboot from Mr. Robot’s Sam Esmail, revivals of Punky Brewster and Saved by the
Bell revivals, the Jamie Dornan and Alec Baldwin-led Dr. Death, the Ed Helms
comedy Rutherford Falls and Psych 2: Lassie Come Home.
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