Peacock TV: Cost, app, shows and more NBC streaming service details

Peacock Boob tube: Price, app, shows and more NBC streaming service details

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Peacock Telly is flying high thanks to popular titles similar The Office and Harry Potter movies. The streamer will also be habitation to the Winter Olympics, streaming every event online. Peacock has placed a large bet on sports in full general as the home to Premier League games and WWE on Peacock.

NBC Peacock Idiot box: Cheat sheet

• Peacock is a streaming service that offers a free tier, news, sports and NBC's extensive back catalogue of Television set shows.
• Peacock is free with ads, though yous get more content with the $4.99 (ads) and $ix.99 (no ads ... well, some ads) plans.
• Peacock exclusives include the entirety of The Office.
• Peacock expanding: to launch in the U.Thou. and Europe in the second half of 2021.

Peacock may be i of the newer contenders amid the best streaming services, but it'south got a ton to offer. Nosotros've analyzed Peacock from all angles, including the shows available to watch at present and coming soon, plus how proficient its originals are (check out Girls5eva and We Are Lady Parts). Oh, and don't think Peacock is just NBC and Universal content — it offers licensed movies and shows, likewise.

In addition to thousands of movies and shows, the new streaming service volition offer live and on-demand content across news, sports and belatedly night.

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Peacock Tv toll & pricing info, availability

Formerly, Peacock was but available to those in the U.Southward., but that changed in November 2021. Peacock arrived in the U.K. and Ireland, and volition continue expanding to other regions.

Times are tough and our pockets are getting tighter, and then it's practiced that Peacock Boob tube starts costless and works its way up to a premium service.

Peacock Complimentary, the free and advertizing-supported streaming tier, houses 7,500 hours of programming. That includes next-day admission to current seasons of freshman broadcast series; select episodes of marquee Peacock originals and tent-pole serial; complete archetype series; popular movies; curated daily news and sports programming such equally the Olympics; and Spanish-linguistic communication content. Peacock's costless streaming service will also characteristic genre channels such as "SNL Vault," Family Film Night" and "Olympic Profiles."

NBC Peacock TV - sections — (Prototype credit: Comcast/NBC)

Peacock Premium is $4.99 per month if yous don't have Comcast, and those subscribers volition pay $9.99 per calendar month to get Peacock Premium Plus without most ads. Those with a Comcast subscription get Peacock Premium for gratis.

Oh and almost the $nine.99 per month Peacock Premium Plus. It takes away "most" commercials, but Peacock Premium Plus isn't completely ad-free. According to the fine print, it still serves advertisements in "a pocket-sized amount of programming" which includes Peacock channels, events and a few shows and movies.

Both Premium tiers will have access to xv,000 hours of programming, including next-day streaming of all current broadcast shows; the entire series of The Office; total seasons of originals like Mindy Kaling'southward Expecting and Sam Esmail'due south Battlestar Galactica reboot; early streaming of NBC'south late-dark lineup. Live sports (such equally the returning Premiere League football) and the Olympics are be on both tiers.

Check out more details in our Peacock Gratuitous vs Premium face-off.

Peacock Tv apps and devices

The Peacock Goggle box app is available on most major streaming devices, having finally landed on Fire Idiot box in June 2021. Peacock is also on Roku, gaming consoles and select smart TVs

You lot can also become Peacock Television from the Google Play Store for Android devices and the Peacock Television on the Apple App Store for iPhones, iPads and Apple tree TV.

Here'south the list of which devices are uniform with the Peacock app:

Amazon Burn TV
Android mobile devices
Android Television receiver
Apple Tv set 4K and Apple Tv set Hard disk drive
Apple tree mobile devices
Google Chromecast
Comcast Xfinity X1
Comcast Xfinity Flex
LG Smart TVs
Sony PlayStation 4 and PS5
Microsoft Xbox One, Series 10 and Southward
Roku
Vizio SmartCast TVs

Peacock TV gratuitous trial

When y'all sign upwards for Peacock Premium, you'll exist offered a seven-twenty-four hours free trial, no matter if you desire the $4.99 or $9.99 tier. The onetime has iii to five minutes of ads per hour, while the latter is mostly ad-free (some programs must contractually play commercials, though).

Peacock Television set shows and originals

Peacock originals are led by the reboot of Saved By the Bell, the hilarious and heartwarming one-act We Are Lady Parts and the Tina Fey-produced Girls5Eva. Other originals include Lost Symbol, MacGruber and The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip.

1 major upcoming show is Bel-Air, a darker take on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.

Peacock Idiot box classic shows and movies

NBC Peacock TV will have PARKS AND RECREATION — The Peacock Television receiver service will exist the place to rewatch Leslie Knope's campaign in Parks and Recreation. (Image credit: Tyler Aureate/NBC)

Much like Disney Plus, Peacock's biggest weapons (for now) are in its vault. Peacock offers a ton of titles from the library of NBC and its sister networks. That includes beloved sitcoms similar Parks and Recreation and 30 Rock, as well as Saturday Night Live, and Thanks. At that place's besides a lot of older programming for going retro, including The Johnny Carson Bear witness, The Carol Burnett Show and The Greatest American Hero.

At the first of 2021, Peacock also added the entire serial of The Role. The beginning two seasons are available to Peacock Free user, but you'll need to pay for Premium or Premium Plus to picket all of the seasons besides as bonus content.

You also become a ton of Law & Guild shows in a potent mix of drama programming that includes Friday Night Lights, House and Battlestar Galactica (the original, not the upcoming series). Also Parenthood and Monk, equally well every bit other older shows such as Murder She Wrote, Columbo and The Rockford Files.

Reality TV is getting infinite on Peacock, bringing The Real Housewives franchise, Bethenny E'er After, Kourtney & Kim Take New York, Very Cavallari and WAGS (and many more) to the streaming service.

NBC Peacock TV will have a channel grid — (Image credit: Comcast/NBC)

Obsessed with Truthful Crime? Peacock'south got Forensic Files, Unsolved Mysteries, Aaron Hernandez Uncovered, The Example of Caylee Anthony, Dahmer on Dahmer: A Series Killer Speaks, The Disappearance of Natalee Holloway and many more than.

And then in that location are the movies. Yous've got blockbusters including the unabridged Harry Potter movie franchise, action films like the John Wick movies, dramas including Children of Men, romances like Fifty Shades of Grayness and comedies such equally The Nutty Professor.

Enough of kids content too: Peacock will pack in new and exclusive episodes of Curious George, Where's Waldo? and Cleopatra in Space, as well as shows from the library including including Woody Woodpecker, Tiptop Chef Jr., New Adventures of He-Man

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The big bad news: Yous might think of Friends as an NBC show, but information technology's on HBO Max.

What's up with that? Oh, and Peacock is likewise defective Seinfeld, which is currently on Netflix. Its absence is utterly perplexing.

Peacock TV talk shows

Different Netflix, HBO Max and Hulu, Peacock streams nightly talk shows, with access to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Myers.

Oh, and Peacock will take its own original late dark talk shows, that aren't but pickups from NBC. Those serial will include the Bister Ruffin Evidence, starring the titular author and performer known for her fourth dimension on Detroiters and Boozer History. In that location's likewise an Untitled Larry Wilmore Show, which volition see the former The Daily Show correspondent focus on the 2020 election and the topics of the week.

Peacock Goggle box sports programming

Peacock is trying to differentiate itself from the pack by pushing hard on sports. Not but did it have coverage of the Tokyo Olympics in 2021, there will be complete coverage of the 2022 Winter Olympics.

Peacock is now the exclusive live streaming home of the series PFT Alive with Mike Florio, which adapts the site Profootballtalk.com into a sports talk show. Chris Simms, Peter King and Rodney Harrison have stayed on.

The streamer also exclusive rights to the WWE.

Over the span of the 2020-21 season, Peacock Premium volition be the exclusive home (in the U.Southward.) for more than than 175 Premier League matches.

Peacock Boob tube reviews

In our Peacock review, we noted that Peacock is great for watching classic Television receiver, and we were delighted by how Xfinity customers get Peacock Premium for free. That existence said, the lack of originals and a sparse "trending" section fabricated it feel a little hollow.

Over at CNET, they commended the service for its free tier, having fewer ads than Hulu, and its inclusion of news and late-nighttime shows (ii things that the other streaming services don't offering). Overall, though, CNET was negative nigh the service because of the lack of originals and how its back catalogue was missing many seasons of some key shows, such as Sabbatum Night Live, and regular Constabulary and Club.

The folks at Decider say that "Everything is fine" for Peacock, only "there are many, many miles to go," (emphasis theirs). Decider besides joined the chorus that say they'll "probable never employ Trending,"

Peacock TV ads

NBC is pretty confident in its ad-supported approach considering it's going low on the corporeality of ads — with only five minutes per hour at the most. Yes, we all love to fast-frontwards through commercials to go to Tv, if said Telly is gratuitous, the success of Pluto TV shows that NBC is onto something here.

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Henry is a senior editor at Tom'southward Guide covering streaming media, laptops and all things Apple, reviewing devices and services for the past vi-plus years. Prior to joining Tom'southward Guide, he reviewed software and hardware for TechRadar Pro, and interviewed artists for Patek Philippe International Magazine. He's also covered the wild world of professional wrestling for Cageside Seats, interviewing athletes and other industry veterans.