What’s the Difference Between the Free Version of Peacock and Peacock Premium?
As Peacock prepares for its national launch on July 15, NBCUniversal is about to enter the streaming wars themselves. When you consider how users have already subscribed to services like HBO Max, Hulu, Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Disney+, why would users even consider another streaming service? One unique element of Peacock is the price. The service comes in two different forms: a free version of Peacock and Peacock Premium. But what’s the difference?
What Is the Free Version of Peacock?
The free version of Peacock offers an ad-supported subscription that will offer users access to 13,000 hours of NBC programs and series.
These will include releases of modern shows a week after they arir, full access to older NBC shows like “Parks and Recreation,” sports programming, daily news, Spanish-language programming and much more. The company also promises that users will not have more than five minutes of commercials per hour.
What Is Peacock Premium?
Peacock Premium will help fill in that hole.
Users will get access to what NBCUniversal estimates will be around 20,000 hours in content. This will include all of the programs that users of the free version of Peacock would typically receive. But it is expected to be expanded significantly in the coming months and years.
This will include exclusive original Peacock programs such as the new show “Brave New World,” additional shows, and movies, next-day access to current shows, daily news and a plethora of other services including live sports.
Last week, NBCUniversal announced Peacock Premium will stream 175 exclusive Premier League matches in the 2020-21 season. All content previously presented on NBC Sports Gold’s “Premier League Pass” will shift exclusively to Peacock Premium.
Peacock Premium will come in two versions: a $5 monthly subscription that includes ads and a $10 service that offers no ads.
Users who already have select cable packages, such as Comcast X1, Comcast Flex or Cox Communications, will receive a $5 discount on any monthly subscription they wish to acquire.
Comparison of TV Shows & Movies on Peacock Free & Premium
| Free Tier | Premium Tier | |
|---|---|---|
| 21 Jump Street | Yes | Yes |
| 30 Rock | Yes | Yes |
| A Little Late with Lilly Singh | Following Week | Following Day |
| Aaron Hernandez Uncovered | Yes | Yes |
| Access Hollywood | Following Week | Following Day |
| America’s Got Talent | Following Week | Following Day |
| American Ninja Warrior | No | Yes |
| American Ninja Warrior Jr. | Yes | Yes |
| American Psycho | Yes | Yes |
| Bad Girls Club | Yes | Yes |
| Battlestar Galactica | Yes | Yes |
| Below Deck | Yes | Yes |
| Billy Elliot | Yes | Yes |
| Blindspot | Following Week | Following Day |
| Bluff City Law | Following Week | Following Day |
| Botched | Yes | Yes |
| Bring the Funny | Following Week | Following Day |
| Care Bears | No | Yes |
| Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot | No | Yes |
| Charlie Wilson’s War | No | Yes |
| Cheers | No | Yes |
| Chicago Fire | Following Week | Following Day |
| Chicago Med | Following Week | Following Day |
| Chicago P.D. | Following Week | Following Day |
| Children of Men | No | Yes |
| Chrisley Knows Best | Yes | Yes |
| Columbo | Yes | Yes |
| Council of Dads | Following Week | Following Day |
| Dateline | Yes | Yes |
| Dateline | Following Week | Following Day |
| Days of our Lives | Following Week | Following Day |
| Do the Right Thing | Yes | Yes |
| Downton Abbey | Yes | Yes |
| Dracula | Yes | Yes |
| Dragnet | Yes | Yes |
| DreamWorks Dragons: Riders of Berk | No | Yes |
| Ellen’s Game of Games | Following Week | Following Day |
| Everybody Hates Chris | Yes | Yes |
| Everybody Loves Raymond | No | Yes |
| Fear | Yes | Yes |
| Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas | Yes | Yes |
| Fievel’s American Tails | Yes | Yes |
| Fletch | Yes | Yes |
| Fletch Lives | Yes | Yes |
| Flipping Out | Yes | Yes |
| Forgetting Sarah Marshall | No | Yes |
| Frankenstein | Yes | Yes |
| Frasier | No | Yes |
| Friday Night Lights | Yes | Yes |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | Yes | Yes |
| Gosford Park | Yes | Yes |
| Hell’s Kitchen | Yes | Yes |
| Heroes | Yes | Yes |
| Highlander | Yes | Yes |
| Hollywood Game Night | Yes | Yes |
| Hollywood Game Night | Following Week | Following Day |
| House | No | Yes |
| Howard the Duck | Yes | Yes |
| Hunter | Yes | Yes |
| I Am Ali | Yes | Yes |
| Identity Thief | No | Yes |
| In The Name of the Father | Yes | Yes |
| Indebted | Following Week | Following Day |
| Jay Leno’s Garage | Yes | Yes |
| Joe | Yes | Yes |
| Jurassic Park | Yes | Yes |
| Jurassic Park III | Yes | Yes |
| Kicking & Screaming | Yes | Yes |
| King of Queens | No | Yes |
| Kong: The Animated Series | Yes | Yes |
| Larry Crowne | No | Yes |
| Law Abiding Citizen | Yes | Yes |
| Law and Order | No | Yes |
| Law and Order: Criminal Intent | Yes | Yes |
| Law and Order: SVU | Following Week | Following Day |
| Law and Order: SVU | No | Yes |
| Leave It to Beaver | Yes | Yes |
| Lincoln Rhyme | Following Week | Following Day |
| Lone Ranger | Yes | Yes |
| Lone Survivor | No | Yes |
| Making It | Following Week | Following Day |
| Manifest | Following Week | Following Day |
| Meet the Press | Following Week | Following Day |
| Million Dollar Listing New York | Yes | Yes |
| Monk | Yes | Yes |
| Munsters | Yes | Yes |
| Murder She Wrote | Yes | Yes |
| NBC Nightly News | Following Week | Following Day |
| New Amsterdam | Following Week | Following Day |
| One True Thing | Yes | Yes |
| Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures | Yes | Yes |
| Parenthood | Yes | Yes |
| Parks and Recreation | Yes | Yes |
| Pawn Stars | Yes | Yes |
| Perfect Harmony | Following Week | Following Day |
| Phantom Thread | Yes | Yes |
| Project Blue Book | Yes | Yes |
| Psych | Yes | Yes |
| Psycho | Yes | Yes |
| Punky Brewster | Yes | Yes |
| Ray Donovan | No | Yes |
| Real Housewives of Dallas | Yes | Yes |
| Real Husbands of Hollywood | Yes | Yes |
| Royal Pains | Yes | Yes |
| Sacred Lies | Yes | Yes |
| Saturday Night Live | Yes | Yes |
| Saturday Night Live | Following Week | Following Day |
| Saved By the Bell | Yes | Yes |
| Scarface | Yes | Yes |
| Shahs of Sunset | Yes | Yes |
| Shrek | Yes | Yes |
| Snapped | Yes | Yes |
| Songland | Following Week | Following Day |
| Southern Charm | Yes | Yes |
| Storage Wars | Yes | Yes |
| Suits | Yes | Yes |
| Sunnyside | Following Week | Following Day |
| Superstore | Following Week | Following Day |
| Superstore | No | Yes |
| Swedish Dicks | No | Yes |
| Ted | No | Yes |
| The Affair | No | Yes |
| The Birds | Yes | Yes |
| The Blacklist | Following Week | Following Day |
| The Blair Witch Project | Yes | Yes |
| The Bourne Identity | Yes | Yes |
| The Bourne Supremacy | Yes | Yes |
| The Bourne Ultimatum | Yes | Yes |
| The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury | Yes | Yes |
| The Game | Yes | Yes |
| The George Lopez Show | No | Yes |
| The Hitcher | Yes | Yes |
| The Inbetween | Following Week | Following Day |
| The Interpreter | Yes | Yes |
| The Jeff Foxworthy Show | No | Yes |
| The Kelly Clarkson Show | Following Week | Following Day |
| The Kenan Show | Following Week | Following Day |
| The Last House On The Left | Yes | Yes |
| The Matrix | Yes | Yes |
| The Matrix Reloaded | Yes | Yes |
| The Matrix Revolutions | Yes | Yes |
| The Mummy | Yes | Yes |
| The Rockford Files | Yes | Yes |
| The Sting | Yes | Yes |
| The Titan Games | Following Week | Following Day |
| The Wall | Following Week | Following Day |
| This Is Us | Following Week | Following Day |
| Titan Games | Following Week | Following Day |
| Top Chef Masters | Yes | Yes |
| Tully | Yes | Yes |
| Two and a Half Men | No | Yes |
| Undercover Boss | Yes | Yes |
| What Dreams May Come | Yes | Yes |
| Willie | Yes | Yes |
| Woody Woodpecker | Yes | Yes |
| World of Dance | Following Week | Following Day |
| Yellowstone | No | Yes |
| You, Me & Dupree | No | Yes |
| Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist | Following Week | Following Day |