Will The Peacock Streaming Service Have The Original Law & Order Tv Series

Comcast unveiled plans for Peacock, the latest streaming service, that includes three subscription tiers and 15,000 hours of entertainment, news and sports programming for those who pay the nigh.

At a presentation in the "Saturday Night Live" studio in New York, the parent of NBC Universal touted plans, start in April, to stream episodes of shows including "Law & Club: SVU," "Superstore" and "Saturday Night Live." In a first, "The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon" and "Belatedly Night with Seth Meyers" will be streamed several hours before they air on NBC each night, at 8 EST and nine EST, respectively.

The service, initially available only in the U.Due south., will be the exclusive abode of producer Dick Wolf'south "Law & Order" and "Chicago" franchise libraries, totaling 1,000 episodes, although several NBC shows currently stream new episodes on Hulu.

Reruns of NBC'due south "The Function," a top depict on Netflix, and "Parks and Recreation" will motion to Peacock one time Netflix's contracts end in 2021. And Universal films released this calendar month and beyond will eventually be streamed there, alongside non-exclusive titles from "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" to "Jaws" and "American Pie."

Original series include remakes of "Battlestar Galactica," from producer Sam Esmail ("Mr. Robot," "Homecoming"), remakes of teen series "Saved Past the Bong" and "Punky Brewster;" and Aldous Huxley'due south "Dauntless New World," starring Demi Moore. Other projects include a new "Psych" movie and "Girls5Eva," a comedy about a i-hitting wonder 1990s popular grouping that reunites, produced by Tina Fey, and a continuation of "A.P. Bio," a canceled NBC sitcom.

Peacock has too signed a deal with Kevin Hart that includes a stand-up special and an interview series, "Hart to Center." And the service is developing potential projects Mindy Kaling, Amy Poehler, Norman Lear and a "MacGruber" reboot with Will Forte, based on his "SNL" graphic symbol and movie.

The new service will air live coverage of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, earlier NBC airs taped highlights in prime time, forth with the opening and closing ceremonies and 3 daily wrap-upwards shows. Premier League soccer and Ryder Loving cup golf tournament as well volition exist streamed. And NBC News and Spanish-language Telemundo will produce original content.

Steve Carell as Michael Scott in NBC's 'The Office.' Reruns will move from Netflix to NBC's new Peacock streaming service in 2021.

In an increasingly crowded landscape, the new service has one advantage over most of its rivals: Unlike Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Apple tree Tv set+ and Disney+, the basic tier of the new service is costless and volition carry ads. A "premium" version, also ad-supported, will be gratuitous to Comcast cable customers when it launches on April xv; a full national rollout is expected July 15, but in time for the Olympics, when Cox Cablevision customers (and, it hopes, other cable services) volition too receive it. Comcast predicts it will have 30 one thousand thousand to 35 million subscribers by 2024.

The tiers:

A complimentary service, bachelor to anyone, that will include news and sports programming and side by side-twenty-four hour period repeats of current series, some already available on Hulu.
A $4.99 "premium" monthly service that adds original programs, early tardily-nighttime shows, Olympics content and about twice the corporeality of content, but still has about v minutes of commercials per hour. (It will exist gratuitous to Comcast and Cox cablevision customers.)
An ad-gratis version of the premium service, with no commercials, for $ix.99 a month.

Matt Strauss, who is running Comcast, acknowledged to investors in New York on Thursday there's a "streaming fatigue" equally other services clamor for attending. Electric current offerings range from Apple TV+'s $4.99 fee, for a scattering of original series, to $6.99 for Disney+, $12.99 for Netflix and $14.99 for WarnerMedia's HBO Max, due in May.

But Fey, Fallon, Meyers and Savannah Guthrie were amidst those on hand to tout offerings, brand jokes and mock the service'southward proper name.