Peacock NBC Broadcast Service: Free and paid premiums have been announced

Peacock, a Netflix streaming service competing with NBC, will close on April 15 for Comcast customers Xfinity X1 and Flex customers and July 15 nationally. Holding? Unlike HBO Max, Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, and every other streaming service that demands attention, Peacock will be free. All right, baby: everything Frasier you might want to (and Office, I think) without a subscription.

Well, that depends on which Peacock you sign. The NBC service will have tiers, one of which will be free and ad supported. Peacock Free gives you access to the next day in the current seasons of the new TV broadcast, a complete series of classic, popular movies, and episodes of exclusive Peacock series.

Peacock Premium, meanwhile, will come with an abundance of content in addition to what you get for free: next day's access to the current season's return, from the full Peacock season, and pre-discussion access. Subscribers of Comcast and Cox cable TV will receive Peacock Premium at no additional cost. For everyone else, Peacock Premium will be available for $ 4.99 per month with ads and $ 9.99 ad-free.

With the announcement of Peacock, broadcast battles are finally heating up. WarnerMedia's streaming service HBO Max will launch in May 2020, with Apple TV Plus and Disney Plus both launched last November. Peacock falls under the banner of NBCUniversal, which means it will be home to similar sitcoms Frasier

, Parks and Recreation, and – after leaving Netflix at the end of 2020 – Office. (Friends, creatively the Warner Bros. project Television, live on HBO Max.)

Like its competition, NBC aims to create a reboot and a series of popular shows to keep the customer's attention. In the docket there has been a new takeover Warstar Galactica

departure Mr. Robot composer Sam Esmail; to follow in an 80s sitcom Punky Brewster; and "renewal" of Saved by Bell. New content, such as Courage The New World the flexibility and imagination of Syfy and the Telemundo show called Armas de Mujer, are also present in the works.

Peacock will also host movies from Universal Pictures, Focused Features, DreamWorks animation, and Illumination. The lineup will install Mount Brokeback, Paragraphs, Mamma Mia!, Breakfast Club, again Shrek, as well as entries from Bourne, Fast & Furious, and Despicable Me franchises. The studios mentioned and plan to make Peacock's original films.

NBC is hoping to add a new news service, as well as Jimmy Fallon & # 39; s bizarre peaks Tonight Show. He also plans to make the 2020 Tokyo Olympics a major part of the Peacock this summer.