Posted on 09/17/2019 9:29:10 AM PDT by FewsOrange
Who needs a “Plus” or a “Max” when you can use the plumage of a colorful bird? Such is the thinking at NBCUniversal, which announced on Tuesday that its new streaming service would be named Peacock...
When Peacock makes its debut in April, it will join the growing list of new streaming services, including Apple TV Plus (Nov. 1), Disney Plus (Nov. 12) and HBO Max, which is also to start in April...
To compete, Peacock intends to have 15,000 hours of content from its vast library available on both its ad-supported and subscription-based services. Highlights will include complete seasons of “Parks and Recreation,” “Brooklyn Nine-Nine,” “Cheers,” “Downton Abbey,” “Everybody Loves Raymond,” “Friday Night Lights” and “Frasier.” In June, NBCUniversal paid a reported $500 million to regain the rights to “The Office,” which will become available on Peacock at the start of 2020...
On the film side of Peacock, movies from Universal Pictures, Focus Features and DreamWorks Animation — including “Bridesmaids,” “American Pie,” “Do the Right Thing” and “E.T.” — will be featured. Pricing details for Peacock subscriptions have not been made public...
There will be a reboot of “Battlestar Galactica” from Sam Esmail, the creator of “Mr. Robot,” and a new comedy series called “Rutherford Falls” from Mike Schur, the prolific producer behind “The Good Place,” “Parks and Recreation” and “The Office.” Ed Helms, an alumnus of “The Office,” will star. Reboots of “Saved by the Bell” and “Punky Brewster” are also in the works. A documentary series from Lorne Michaels called “Who Wrote That” will feature some of the most memorable moments from “Saturday Night Live” and discuss the writers responsible. All 44 seasons of “Saturday Night Live” will be available on Peacock, with Season 45 coming on once it completes its run on NBC...
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That service is not worth a warm bucket of cockpea
If call men’s programming the Peacock channel, what will they call the women’s channel?
Television re-eats its own turds.
Even if I were a television watcher, which I am not, I wouldn’t sign up for these streaming services. There would only be one or two shows I would be interested in on each streaming service and it just wouldn’t be worth my time to pay for each one.
It would also be too expensive to have as many streaming services as I might be inclined to watch. This would be a $300/month cable bill if I did this. Just too much.
Most people can afford to support only 3. I might test out Disney+ in November when its added to Hulu.
AT&T’s rumored HBO Max is too expensive. I’d skip it unless there’s a free ad-supported service in the wings.
The “Men Are Pigs Channel.”
Now people can stream shows that should have been consigned to the dustbin of history. Pass.
Bravo Foxtrot Delta.
Hmmmm, wonder which pervert at the network dreamed up that analogy?
Singing in the shower:)
I bet if you said Peacock into your voice remote it would set off all the parental controls.
It’s all won’t see TV for me.
I have watched Nothing But Crap in years.
NBC there - be there!
Not me in many years.
Apparently, the cable “channels” have contracts with the providers that will expire in a couple of years. Then it should be an open market and I am hoping that you can stream directly from the channels and probably for free too.
Great
Another streaming service I can avoid.
I’d rather watch pre-code 1930’s and Film Noir movies on YouTube.
That’s the problem I have with so many of these streaming services.
If I didn’t want to see it on the boob tube or at the movies, why in tarnation would I want to stream it?!
Thank God and Guttenberg for books.
I don't like much noir, but I love that one!
Never thought a video streaming service called “peacock” would be relatively clean.
Oh BARF. NBC owns the damn world... Enough already!
$ for this stream, $ for that, etc., etc....
Pretty soon it start costing a $$$$.
I remember when I first got Roku, it only cost a few bucks for Hulu/Netflix/Prime.
Now it’s costing MORE than cable.
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