What can I watch on Peacock? New movies straight from theaters - plus hundreds of movies from major Hollywood studios such as Universal, DreamWorks Animation, and Focus Features. Thousands of hours of hit TV shows, including highly anticipated Peacock Originals and current hits from NBC & Bravo.

The service would be led by chairman Bonnie Hammer, under the division NBCUniversal Direct-to-Consumer and Digital Enterprises. On September 17, 2019, it was announced that the service would be named "Peacock", as an allusion to the NBC logo.

Stream 80,000+ hours of the best in TV, movies, and sports.

• New & Hit Shows, Films & Originals.
• LIVE Sports & Events.
• Current NBC & Bravo Shows.
• 50+ Always-On Channels.

Users will have the ability to choose between on-demand content and a browsable back catalog of 600 films and more than 10,000 hours of NBC television series. There's even something called virtual channels, a fascinating idea of livestreamed, curated content that connects Peacock to its roots on broadcast TV.

One reason why people may come back to Peacock is that it's getting relatively-recent movies from Universal Pictures. And if you're looking for new shows, Peacock's Poker Face (just like Apple TV Plus' Shrinking) is worth your first month's payment.

Peacock's free tier includes:

• Next-day access to current seasons of NBC broadcast shows in their first season, known as freshmen series.
• Next-week access (i.e., one week after episodes air) to current seasons of returning NBC broadcast shows.
• Select episodes of marquee Peacock originals (but not full seasons).

Peacock is an American over-the-top subscription video on demand streaming service owned and operated by NBCUniversal, a subsidiary of Comcast.

Peacock Free - the entry-level plan The entry-level Peacock plan is Peacock Free, which is ad-supported; it's estimated that viewers see around five minutes of ads per hour. In exchange for those few minutes every hour, viewers get access to 40,000 hours of TV shows and movies from the NBCUniversal library.

Peacock TV Free: The free, ad-supported plan allows users to access 13,000 hours of content. Peacock Premium with Ads: $4.99/month or $50/year. This paid plan gives users full access to Peacock content (about 20,000 hours of TV and movies and access to live sports), but will include commercial breaks.

As a Gigabit speed internet customer with Xfinity, you'll receive a special offer for two years of Peacock Premium at no additional cost as long as you remain subscribed to Gigabit or Gigabit+ speed internet or higher from Xfinity. If you're a new subscriber, you'll need to activate your Peacock account.

Unlike other streamers, Peacock will offer a unique tiered structure that includes a free premium ad-supported streaming service with subscription tiers offering more than 600 movies and 400 series, as well as live and on-demand content across news, sports, late night and reality.

Peacock gets much of its success from its sports programming. The boost in paid subscribers was primarily due to the FIFA World Cup, which streamed in Spanish on Peacock Premium and Telemundo.

As of the second quarter of 2023, the number of Peacock's paid subscribers amounted to 24 million, marking an increase compared with the previous quarters. By comparison, the streaming service owned by Comcast had a subscriber base of nine million in the fourth quarter of 2021.

Is Peacock good? Peacock is one of the cheaper big media streamers out there - that's a fat check in the “good” column. The $5.99 a month Premium plan (with ads) gets you access to 80,000 hours of content, including many NBC, Bravo, and Syfy favorites.

Peacock TV prices and plans As of 2023, Peacock TV costs have two tiers: Peacock Premium (ads) at $5.99 per month and Peacock Premium Plus (ad-free) at $11.99 per month. Each of these then has an annual offering of $59.99 a year (ads) and $119.99 a year (ad-free).

Peacock is an on-demand service that also streams over 50 live channels of TV shows, movies, news, and sports - not to mention a 24/7 Bob Ross channel. Peacock is primarily an on-demand streaming service with thousands of TV shows and movies available at your fingertips, and it also streams live TV.