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10 Sep

Halloween Kills Shifts to Day and Date Streaming Release on Peacock

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This is going to cut movie theater owners as deeply as, well, Michael Myers after he leaves the kitchenware aisle. Universal Pictures announced with little pomp or fanfare on Thursday that David Gordon Green and Jamie Lee Curtis’ long anticipated follow-up to their 2018 Halloween reboot, Halloween Kills, will now premiere simultaneously in theaters and on the NBC-Universal streaming service, Peacock. The shift does not mean Halloween Kills has been delayed again. In fact, it is now certain to open in theaters on Oct. 15. However, it will also be available for streaming (and presumably online piracy) on the exact…

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23 Apr

Link Tank: Should You Watch Rutherford Falls on Peacock?

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Rutherford Falls on Peacock is a groundbreaking sitcom with a lot of room to grow about an almost unspoken part of America. “Peacock’s Rutherford Falls—which Schur developed alongside star Ed Helms and Sierra Teller Ornelas, now the first Native American to be the showrunner on a television comedy—takes place in, well, Rutherford Falls, a spot in the Northeast where settler Lawrence Rutherford ‘brokered a uniquely fair and honest deal’ with the fictional Minishonka tribe that was already there.” Read more at Thrillist. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier‘s deification of Steve Rogers is one of the most notable flaws of…

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20 Apr

Rutherford Falls Review: Peacock Series Learns From Pawnee’s Mistakes

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This review contains no spoilers and is based on the first four episodes of Rutherford Falls. Rutherford Falls, the new Peacock comedy from Ed Helms, Sierra Teller Ornelas, and co-creator Michael Schur, owes a lot to Schur’s previous series, Parks and Recreation. Not only does Rutherford Falls have its mind on civics, community, and bureaucracy, it also aims to have a lived-in quality, with a focus on world-building. In the four episodes screened for critics, Rutherford Falls makes a concerted effort to give every member of the Northeast community a name and a voice, much like the citizens of Pawnee.…

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15 Dec

The Office’s First Two Seasons Will Stream For Free On Peacock

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To a certain population of sitcom enjoyers, the worst thing that could possibly ever happen is set to happen on Dec. 31, 2020: NBC’s The Office will be leaving Netflix forever. Thankfully, this living nightmare will be pretty brief as The Office will come right back to the streaming world on Jan. 1, 2021. Fresh NBC streaming service Peacock today confirmed all the details of The Office’s impending arrival to its streams. In the form of a very clever Dunder Mifflin memo from David Wallace to “All Employees,” Peacock made their big plans for the classic mockumentary known. And they…

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09 Oct

Mr. Mercedes Director Jack Bender On The Show’s Peacock Move and Future

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Mr. Friendly’s Frosteez has a new driver scooping ice cream for the kids and smiley-faced tennis balls for the older crowd. A certain 2003 Mercedes-Benz S 600 sports a new color. And Mr. Mercedes has a new home. The Stephen King detective series will be getting a second life at Peacock. While Mr. Mercedes season 3 ended with a vague tease the serial killer at the heart of the series may be starting anew as the Supreme Electronix co-worker who took him out, Peacock is keeping the series exactly as it originally ran before Audience Network was shut down. Based…

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21 Sep

Mr. Mercedes Moves to Peacock, New Home of the Stephen King Series

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Mr. Mercedes has found a new home in NBCUniversal’s recently launched streaming premium platform, Peacock. The move to Peacock yields a new lease on life for Mr. Mercedes, the Stephen King adaptation crime series, which started life in 2017 as a broadcast offering on the AT&T-owned, DirecTV-exclusive Audience Network, only to be left derelict with an uncertain future after the channel’s dissolution this past January. With the move—announced on Sept. 21, King’s birthday, of all days—Mr. Mercedes Seasons 1 and 2 will be bingeable on Peacock starting on October 15. That premiere will eventually be followed by the show’s most…

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09 Sep

Fresh Prince of Bel-Air Dramatic Reboot Gets Two-Season Order at Peacock

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Talk about your whole life getting flipped-turned upside down… Peacock has announced that it has officially ordered two seasons of the previously-rumored Fresh Prince of Bel-Air dramatic reboot known as Bel-Air. The reboot will be based on the 2019 viral short, Bel-Air, by Morgan Cooper. The short was a parody trailer that put a dramatic twist on the comedic premise of the original sitcom. The trailer would go on to garner six million views on YouTube and famously gained the attention of star Will Smith. Not only did Smith endorse Cooper’s concept but he also helped shepherd it into an…

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15 Aug

Clueless Reboot TV Series Coming to Peacock

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Someone is going to try to replace Amy Heckerling’s dialogue and Alicia Silverstone as Cher? As if! Yet that appears to be the case with the announcement that the Clueless reboot is headed to NBCUniversal’s new Peacock streaming network. The project has actually been in development since last year, but the announcement of it moving forward and finding a home at Peacock is a swift development. But the series, which is being written by Jordan Reddout and Gus Hickey (Will & Grace, The Muppets.), takes a different direction than you might expect. With its focus on the character of Dionne,…

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10 Aug

Girls5eva: Sara Bareilles to Star in Tina Fey Peacock Comedy

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Tina Fey’s last streaming comedy proved that “females are strong as hell.” Now the prolific TV creator is set to double down on that message with the lead casting for her new Peacock sitcom. Peacock revealed today that musician Sara Bareilles will serve as the lead on Girls5eva, an upcoming comedy from Fey and producing partner Robert Carlock. Girls5eva centers on a one-hit-wonder girls group from the ‘90s called “Girls5eva” When a young rapper samples one of their songs, it launches the group back into the national spotlight and gives them a chance at pop stardom once again. Peacock’s tagline…

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05 Aug

All Harry Potter Movies to Stream on Peacock This Fall

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Accio corporate intrigue! Earlier this summer, WarnerMedia launched its all-encompassing streaming service, HBO Max, to house all Warner content. So you know what that means: it’s time to stream every Harry Potter movie…on NBCUniversal’s Peacock. Peacock announced today that all eight Harry Potter films will be available to stream in windows over the next six months, starting in October 2020 and extending into 2021. Not only that but the films will be available to all on Peacock’s free tier service. “The Harry Potter franchise is beloved by people of all ages and represents the caliber of quality entertainment customers can…

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10 Jul

Intelligence Provides Peacock With Some Surveillance Comedy

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Someone is always watching what you do. Smartphones beam data back to satellites, mobile providers, and tech manufacturers at a startling pace. It’s hard to go a day without unknowingly popping up on at least one CCTV camera. And most frighteningly – someone is probably looking through your Google search history RIGHT NOW! Delete the cookies! Throw your phone in the ocean! At the center of the web of all this surveillance are governmental intelligence agencies like the NSA in the U.S. or GCHQ in the U.K. What goes on behind the scenes at these shadowy, powerful enterprises? Intelligence, a…

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07 Jul

Peacock: NBC Streaming Service Release Date, Shows, Price, and News

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The streaming service field is becoming more fractured, as more and more media companies break from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu in favor of creating their own streaming services. While Disney’s Disney+, HBO MAX, and Apple’s TV+ may be the most talked-about right now, NBCUniversal—the Comcast Corp. division that owns NBC, MSNBC, USA, and the Universal Pictures movie studio—is also planning to launch its own streaming service. Here’s what we know: Peacock Release Date Peacock was made available to Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform subscribers on April 15, 2020. The service will officially roll out to the rest of the country on July 15, 2020.…

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