NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service will be home to Psych 3: This is Gus, the third movie based on the hit comedy show Psych. The company revealed the trailer and release date for the movie during New York Comic-Con, giving fans a long look at the upcoming streaming movie, as well as the good news that they won't have to wait long to watch it.
YouTube TV and NBCUniversal recently went public with their dispute over a new agreement that will allow the streaming television service to continue offering NBC channels. While NBCU called on YouTube TV subscribers to message the company about the matter and potentially switch to a different service provider, YouTube went in a different direction: it promised to lower its monthly fee and encouraged users to sign up for Peacock if the channels are removed.
The streaming service Peacock, of all places, seems to have the horror movie streaming market cornered right in time for Halloween 2021. Included in Peacock's lineup starting on October 1, 2021, are the Chucky movies (Child's Play), Friday the 13th, Gremlins, Leprechaun, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Phantasm, Predator, Psycho, Saw, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Dracula, The Mummy, The Invisible Man, Bride of Frankenstein, Phantom of the Opera, The Creature Walks Among Us, and a whole bunch more.
YouTube TV subscribers are caught in the crossfire amid a dispute between YouTube and NBC Universal. As with past deal disputes, these channels may go dark until/unless the two companies can come to a new agreement over how much YouTube TV will pay to offer the content. Assuming a deal can't be reached, channels like USA, NBC, and Syfy will be removed.
This holiday season will bring Roku's first original movie, one that will be made available on the company's free ad-supported Roku Channel streaming service. The Christmas special will be based on the NBC show Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist and it will include the original cast from the series. Once it arrives, Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas will be Roku's first original feature film.
NBCUniversal's Peacock streaming service will soon be home to an original game show based on the classic Konami game Frogger. The show won't hit Peacock until next month, but NBC has given users and subscribers their first look at the upcoming original, including the Frogger-themed obstacle courses and the many ways participants can get knocked out of the competition.
Only days after revealing a deal that will bring its newly released movies to Peacock, Universal Pictures has announced another deal, this one with Amazon. Under this arrangement, Universal Pictures' future theatrical movies will be available exclusively on Amazon's Prime Video platform after they leave Peacock, which gets the first exclusive streaming window for the content.
NBC has canceled another hit TV show before viewers could get a proper conclusion: Good Girls. The series, which revolves around a trio of women who dig progressively deeper into the criminal world following an illegal act of desperation, will end with its fourth season. The planned fifth season, sadly, will not be coming from Netflix.
Manifest, a hit NBC thriller about a plane that disappears for five-and-a-half years before suddenly reappearing, was abruptly canceled by NBC this week. The news that the network would end the show with its third season prompted an outcry from fans who have turned to Netflix as a potential savior. The timing is beneficial as Manifest recently arrived on Netflix, rapidly climbing its popularity charts.
Amazon's streaming service Twitch will be the home of some NBC Olympics coverage, the network has announced. Following last year's unprecedented cancellation, the Olympics will return this summer with the 2020 Tokyo Games, a 17-day event that will include various safety measures in light of the SARS-CoV-2 virus's continued presence.
Now that WWE Network is shutting down and NBCUniversal has grabbed the full catalog for its new streaming service, someone has a lot of work ahead of them. Peacock, according to a new report, is scanning the full wrestling video library to find and edit out racist content, of which there is a fairly substantial amount.
Massively popular sitcom The Office made the transition from Netflix to Peacock earlier this year, much to the dismay of fans. Peacock is a three-tier streaming platform, offering free access to some content, as well as two premium plans -- and you must sign up for one of the paid plans to get access to The Office. That has changed, but only for this week.