Parks and Rec shifting from Netflix to NBC streaming platform Peacock

NBC has hosted some iconic reveals through the years, and now the corporate desires to reclaim its work. Beginning in October 2020, Parks and Rec will transfer from Netflix to Peacock, the community’s personal streaming platform.

The beloved comedy is the newest present to be purchased again in Common/NBC’s quest to regain streaming rights for Peacock’s programming library, per The Hollywood Reporter. In June, they nabbed The Workplace from Netflix for a purported $100 million. They’ve additionally acquired streaming rights for 30 Rock, Brooklyn 9-9, Cheers, Frasier, Friday Night time Lights, Everyone Loves Raymond, Saturday Night time Stay, Will & Grace, and extra. Moreover, a Saved By the Bell reboot is within the works.

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Bonnie Hammer, the Direct-to-Shopper and Digital Enterprises Chairman at NBC, mentioned extra reveals will grow to be out there solely on Peacock as their streaming platform “ramps up.” “Lots has to do with proper now and what’s out there and what’s not,” she defined. “We’re going to take a position well and strategically.”

Netflix isn’t the one one taking successful. Many of those reveals are at present hosted on Hulu, as Common/NBC has a 33 p.c stake within the firm and agreed to license a lot of its authentic reveals to them previous to the creation of Peacock. Apparently, Common/NBC renewed its licensing offers with Hulu by way of 2024 as a part of Disney’s rising management of the enterprise, however they’ll terminate most of these offers after a three-year interval. As such, Common/NBC has the rights to stream its Hulu-licensed reveals in trade for a decreased licensing payment.

Past the TV reveals, Peacock can even host a swath of fashionable motion pictures from Common Photos, Focus Options, and DreamWorks Animation. If you wish to watch the Bourne, Quick & Livid, or Despicable Me sequence, you’ll have to subscribe to Peacock — to not point out different movies like American Pie, Bridesmaids, Again to the Future, E.T. the Additional Terrestrial, Jaws, Shrek, The Breakfast Membership, and Mamma Mia! The streaming wars simply bought much more intense.

Peacock will launch in April 2020, out there in each freemium and paid subscription codecs. Additional particulars shall be introduced within the coming months.