NBC Universal's Peacock streams over Android devices starting July 15th
NBCUniversal announced today that their new Peacock streaming service will be available on Android and Android TV, Chromecast, and Chromecast built-in devices on July 15, 2020. Peacock will also launch a free tier of service on that date containing over 7,500 hours of movies, shows, on-demand, and live content, including sports, news, reality, and late-night programming.
Peacock will debut July 15th on iOS and Android devices
Peacock Premium delivers 15,000 hours of content and is available for free to Android and Android TV users until October 15th, 2020. After that date, the premium version of Peacock will be available to Android users for $4.99 per month. An ad-free tier of Peacock Premium can be purchased for an additional $5 per month (a total of $9.99 monthly).
Peacock will offer original programming including titles like Brave New World, The Capture, Intelligence, and Lost Speedways; the entire full-length film Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, and sports documentary In Deep with Ryan Lochte will also be available for streaming. Classic television will be found on Peacock which will be the only place you can stream The Office for five years starting in 2021; NBCUniversal reportedly paid $500 million for the five-year exclusive streaming rights to the mockumentary.
Matt Bond, Chairman, Content Distribution, NBCUniversal added, “As millions of our viewers have already seen the massive benefit of having Peacock available to them these past few months, we look forward to leveraging the unprecedented reach of Google’s platforms and devices, to provide Peacock to even more fans on July 15. Google continues to be a terrific partner as we aim to deliver NBCUniversal’s world class content across all of their platforms and devices.”
Last month Peacock said that its service will be available at launch on July 15th for the Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, Apple TV 4K and Apple TV HD.