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The 2024 Summer Olympics are just 128 days away. They'll be here before you know it, so what better time to learn about all the groovy features that the Games' streaming home, Peacock, has lined up?The platform will host more than 5,000 hours of live coverage across the two weeks, including each of the 329 medal events. That's far more than anyone could possibly watch during the Games, so to help you keep track of several events at once, Peacock is offering several multiview options. On TVs, tablets and desktop browsers…

There are few things as American as watching football on a Sunday. If anyone needs further proof, NFL and Peacock have it: The January 14 Peacock Exclusive AFC Wild Card has set a new record for the United States' most streamed live event in history. According to a joint release from NBC-owned Peacock and Comcast, the Kansas City Chiefs vs. Miami Dolphins game — the first playoff ever exclusively live-streamed — reached 27.6 million viewers.Peacock also claims that the livestream is to thank for the most internet usage in…

For nearly 50 years, Saturday Night Live has been a television staple providing weekly laughs and social commentary, occasionally expanding into feature-length comedies that often feel as hit-or-miss as the sketch series itself. Fans haven't seen a proper film entry since 2010's MacGruber (which was itself spunoff into the streaming series of the same name), but that dearth ends with the release of Please Don't Destroy: The Treasure of Foggy Mountain, a featire that kept me giggling, tittering, chortling and snickering…

It’s pretty safe to say that 2023 has been a breakout year for video game adaptations in film and TV. From the weekly drama of The Last of Us on HBO to the family-friendly blockbuster success of The Super Mario Bros. Movie, these adaptations are no longer the maligned flops they once were, which is what makes Twisted Metal on Peacock so curious. It’s based on a popular PlayStation series but one that hasn’t had a new entry in over a decade. And for much of the first season’s runtime, it also barely has anything to do with…

JioCinema Gets Big Programming Thrust With Multi-Year NBCUniversal Tie-Up ( Photo Credit – IMDb ) NBCUniversal (NBCU) and JioCinema, Viacom18’s streaming service, have entered into a multi-year partnership bringing thousands of hours of NBCU films and TV series to India. NBCU’s programming will be housed in a Peacock branded hub starting next month on JioCinema’s newly announced JioCinema Premium SVOD tier. After NBCUniversal (NBCU) and JioCinema collaboration, viewers will have access to first-run series such as…

Over the last few years, Sony has made it quite clear it wants its PlayStation games to pull double duty as TV/movie successes. So far, that’s given us the Tom Holland-led Uncharted from 2022, and the recent HBO adaptation of The Last of Us. But there’s plenty more adaptations on the horizon (Zero Dawn), from recent blockbusters like Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima to...Twisted Metal.The Hunger Games | The Last of Us Episode 8 ReviewJust before the weekend started, Peacock released the first trailer for the show ahead of…

...about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland. With the help of a badass axe-wielding car thief, he’ll face savage marauders driving vehicles of destruction and other dangers of the open road, including a deranged clown who drives an all too familiar ice cream truck.  ...about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package…

This show has a lot of nuns, but not a lot of guns. | Image: Colleen Hayes / Peacock A lot of people right now are wringing their hands about the rapid emergence and popularization of AI. There’s the way it threatens jobs — as anyone working at CNET will tell you — but there’s also the existential threat AI can create, as Elon Musk is wont to expound upon. Science fiction has been clanging alarm bells about AI since basically the birth of the genre. But too often, the upset about artificial…

Whatever you expect from Mrs. Davis, the new show coming to Peacock on April 20, you’re probably mistaken. The series description will tell you it’s about a nun, played by Glow’s Betty Gilpin, who sets out to take down an artificial intelligence called Mrs. Davis, which has become a pseudo-replacement for God in a near-future society. That’s true, but only at the start. How Can You Be a Steward of Good Tech in 2023? | Gizmodo InterviewWhat Mrs. Davis does with that story is borderline shocking. It constantly folds onto…

Ahead of Poker Face’s seventh episode hitting Peacock tomorrow, the streamer announced today that it’s ordered a second season about Lyonne’s Charlie Cale, a woman who uses her uncanny ability to detect lies to solve murder mysteries from week to week.In a statement about the season 2 order, Susan Rovner, NBCUniversal Television and Streaming’s head of content, said that while the streamer’s hopes for Poker Face were always high, “the critical acclaim and viewer response has been beyond our wildest dreams” and that it…