NBCUniversal’s Streaming Service is Called Peacock, Programming Revealed

NBCUniversal’s Streaming Service is Called Peacock, Programming Revealed

NBCUniversal has announced that their upcoming streaming service has officially been named Peacock. The service will launch in April of 2020 with both an advertising and subscription model available at launch.

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In addition to the branding, NBCUniversal has announced the slate of original programming in development for the service which includes a reboot of the classic series Battlestar Galactica from Mr. Robot‘s Sam Esmail, revivals of Saved by the Bell and Punky Brewster, plus the second original Psych movie (titled Psych 2: Lassie Come Home), and other originals outlined below.

As previously reported, Peacock will also be the exclusive streaming home for The Office starting in 2021. Other NBCUniversal shows set to stream on the service include Bates Motel, Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Cheers, Chrisley Knows Best, Covert Affairs, Downton Abbey, Everybody Loves Raymond, Frasier, Friday Night Lights, House, Keeping Up with the Kardashians, The King of Queens, Married … with Children, Monk Parks and Recreation (exclusive, available Oct. 2020), Parenthood, Psych, The Real Housewives, Royal Pains, Saturday Night Live, Superstore, 30 Rock, Top Chef, Will & Grace, 100 Dias Para Volver (Spanish-language), Betty in NY (Spanish-language), El Barón (Spanish-language), and Preso No. 1 (Spanish-language).

Original movie content will also be made available on the service with new movies produced by Universal Pictures, Focus Features, and DreamWorks Animation. Feature films that will stream on the service at launch include American Pie, Back to the Future, A Beautiful Mind, Bourne franchise, The Breakfast Club, Bridesmaids, Brokeback Mountain, Casino, Dallas Buyers Club, Despicable Me franchise, Do the Right Thing, Erin Brockovich, E.T. The Extra Terrestrial, Fast & Furious, Field of Dreams, Jaws, Knocked Up, Mamma Mia!, Meet the Fockers, Meet the Parents, and Shrek.

You can read the full loglines and credits for all of the NBCUniversal originals below!

THE AMBER RUFFIN SHOW

Logline: Each week “The Amber Ruffin Show” will showcase Amber’s signature smart-and-silly take on the week. A late-night show with just the good parts – the comedy.

T: Amber Ruffin

EP: Seth Meyers, Mike Shoemaker

W: Jenny Hagel

ANGELYNE

Logline: ANGELYNE is a limited series based on The Hollywood Reporter feature that explored the identity of L.A.’s mysterious billboard bombshell.

EP: Emmy Rossum via Composition 8

EP: Sam Esmail via EsmailCorp

EP: Chad Hamilton via Anonymous Content

EP: Lucy Tcherniak

EP: Allison Miller

T: Emmy Rossum

Consultant: Gary Baum

Studio: UCP

A.P. BIO

Logline: When disgraced Harvard philosophy professor Jack Griffin loses out on his dream job, he is forced to return to Toledo, Ohio, and work as a high school Advanced Placement biology teacher. As he comes crashing in to Whitlock High School, Jack makes it absolutely clear he will not be teaching any biology. Realizing he has a room full of honor roll students at his disposal, Jack decides instead to use the kids for his own benefit. Eager to prove that he is still king of the castle, Principal Durbin struggles to control the force of nature that is Jack Griffin.

W/EP: Mike O’Brien

T: Glenn Howerton, Patton Oswalt, Lyric Lewis, Mary Sohn, Jean Villepique and Paula Pell

EP: Seth Meyers, Mike Shoemaker, Andrew Singer, Lorne Michaels

Studios: Universal Television, Broadway Video

Production Company: Sethmaker Shoemeyers Productions

ARMAS DE MUJER

Logline: From the team behind Telemundo’s hit “La Reina del Sur” comes a new dramedy series. Four women suffer their worst nightmare: the police arrest their husbands for being linked to the same criminal organization. Accustomed to a life of abundance, they will be forced to join forces in the most unusual manner.

BRAVE NEW WORLD

Logline: Based on Aldous Huxley’s groundbreaking 1932 novel, BRAVE NEW WORLD imagines a utopian society that has achieved peace and stability through the prohibition of monogamy, privacy, money, family, and history itself.

W: David Wiener

EP/Showrunner: David Wiener

EP: Grant Morrison

EP: Darryl Frank via Amblin Television

EP: Justin Falvey via Amblin Television

EP/Director: Owen Harris

EP (first episode): Brian Taylor

Studio: UCP

Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Jessica Brown Findlay, Harry Lloyd, Kylie Bunbury, Hannah John-Kamen, Sen Mitsuji, Joseph Morgan, Nina Sosanya and Demi Moore.

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA

Logline: Battlestar Galactica returns to television with Sam Esmail producing.

EP: Sam Esmail

EP: Chad Hamilton

Studio: UCP

DR. DEATH

Logline: Based on Wonderly’s hit podcast of the same name, Dr. Death tells the terrifying true story of Dr. Christopher Duntsch (Jamie Dornan), a rising star in the Dallas medical community. Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, Dr. Duntsch was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow physicians, neurosurgeon Robert Henderson (Alec Baldwin) and vascular surgeon Randall Kirby (Christian Slater), set out to stop him. Dr. Death explores the twisted mind of a sociopath and the gross negligence of the system designed to protect the most defenseless among us.

W/EP: Patrick Macmanus

T: Jamie Dornan, Alec Baldwin, Christian Slater

EP: Todd Black, Jason Blumenthal, and Steve Tisch (Escape Artists)

EP: Hernan Lopez, Marshall Lewy (Wondery)

Studio: UCP

ONE OF US IS LYING (pilot)

Logline: Based on Karen M. McManus’s New York Times best-selling novel of the same name, One of Us Is Lying is the story of what happens when five strangers walk into detention and only four walk out alive. Everyone is a suspect, and everyone has something to hide.

W: Erica Saleh

A: Karen M. McManus (based on her novel of the same name)

P: 5 More Minutes Productions (John Sacchi and Matt Groesch)

Studio: UCP

PSYCH 2: LASSIE COME HOME

Logline: Santa Barbara Police Chief

Carlton Lassiter is ambushed on the job and left for dead. In a vintage Psych-style Hitchcockian nod, he begins to see impossible happenings around his recovery clinic. Shawn and Gus return to Lassie’s side in Santa Barbara and are forced to navigate the personal, the professional, and possibly the supernatural. Separated from their new lives in San Francisco, our heroes find themselves unwelcome in their old stomping grounds as they secretly untangle a twisted case without the benefit of the police, their loved ones, or the quality sourdough bakeries of the Bay Area. What they uncover will change the course of their relationships forever.

W/D/EP: Steve Franks

W/EP: James Roday

W: Andy Berman

EP: Chris Henzie

EP: Dulé Hill

Studio: UCP in association with Thruline Entertainment

Cast: James Roday, Dulé Hill, Maggie Lawson, Kirsten Nelson, Corbin Bernsen and Tim Omundson

PUNKY BREWSTER (pilot)

Logline: In this multicamera/hybrid continuation of the iconic 80s sitcom about a bright young girl raised by a foster dad, Punky is now a single mother of three trying to get her life back on track when she meets a young girl who reminds her a lot of her younger self.

W/EP: Steve and Jim Amogida

EP/T: Soleil Moon Frye

EP: Tim Pastore and Jimmy Fox (All3Media America/Main Event Media)

EP: David Duclon

D/EP: Jonathan Judge

Studio: UCP/Universal Television

RUTHERFORD FALLS

Logline: A small town in upstate New York is turned upside down when local legend and town namesake, Nathan Rutherford (Ed Helms) fights the moving of a historic statue.

EP/W/Co-creator/T: Ed Helms

EP/W/Co-creator: Michael Schur

EP/W/Co-creator: Sierra Teller Ornelas

EP/NW: David Miner, Mike Falbo

Studio: Universal Television

Production companies: Fremulon, 3 Arts Entertainment, Pacific Electric Picture Company

SAVED BY THE BELL

Logline: When California governor Zack Morris gets into hot water for closing too many low-income high schools, he proposes they send the affected students to the highest performing schools in the state – including Bayside High. The influx of new students gives the over privileged Bayside kids a much needed and hilarious dose of reality.

EP/W: Tracey Wigfield

P/T: Mario Lopez

P/T: Elizabeth Berkley

EP: Peter Engel, Franco Bario

Studio: Universal Television

STRAIGHT TALK (pilot)

Logline: STRAIGHT TALK examines what happens when two opposing ideologies are forced into an odd coupling. The main characters will be challenged by one another, making the moral lines at which they once stood harder to define.

W/Creator: Kara Brown

D/EP/NW: Rashida Jones

T/EP: Jada Pinkett Smith

EP: Joy Gorman (Anonymous Content)

EP: Deniese Davis (Color Creative)

Studio: Universal Television & Anonymous Content

WHO WROTE THAT

Logline: A docuseries that gives a behind the scenes look at “Saturday Night Live’s” most important writers.

W/EP: Andy Breckman & Susan Morrison

D: Brett Hodge

EP: Lorne Michaels, Andrew Singer, Erin Doyle, Erik Howard (Broadway Video)

EP: Howard Klein (3 Arts)

EP: Derik Murray, Brian Gersh (Network Entertainment)

Associate Producer: Eddie Michaels (Broadway Video)

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