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Note to Psych acolytes: Don’t take the messaging on next week’s Blu-ray release literally.

Despite Universal touting its upcoming Psych boxed set — which includes all eight seasons of the James Roday Rodriguez-Dule Hill farce as well as the three revival pics — as the franchise’s “complete” library, a Peacock source tells TVLine that discussions are continuing to bring Shawn and Gus back for a fourth movie adventure.

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Thirteen years after the comedy-mystery series “Monk” ended its successful eight-season run on the USA Network, star Tony Shalhoub and many of his cast mates are set to reprise their roles in the Peacock original telefilm “Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie.” Shalhoub is also serving as co-executive producer on the new project along with former “Monk” team members Andy Breckman, David Hoberman, and Randy Zisk.

Shalhoub, who played fastidious sleuth Adrian Monk on the original show, will be rejoined by supporting players Ted Levine (Capt. Stottlemeyer), Jason Gray-Stanford (Lt. Disher), Traylor Howard (Natalie Teeger), Melora Hardin (Trudy Monk), and Héctor Elizondo (Dr. Bell). The new movie will also prominently feature a currently undisclosed actress in the role of Monk’s stepdaughter, Molly Evans, who was first portrayed by Alona Tal (“Little Fires Everywhere”) in the series finale.

When viewers last saw Monk, he had just finished solving his wife,...

The Defective Detective is back! Peacock has ordered a “Monk” reunion film with the original series stars and creators returning, Variety has learned.

Tony Shalhoub will once again star as Adrian Monk, the consulting detective who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder and a wide range of phobias. Other returning cast members are Ted Levine as Leland Stottlemeyer, Traylor Howard as Natalie Teeger, Jason Gray-Stanford as Randy Disher, Melora Hardin as Trudy Monk, and Hector Elizondo as Dr. Neven Bell.

Officially titled “Mr. Monk’s Last Case: A Monk Movie,” the film sees Monk return to solve one last and “very personal case involving his beloved step-daughter Molly, a journalist preparing for her wedding,” per the official logline.

“New and returning fans of ‘Monk’ will love how this creative team was able to preserve all that we admire about Adrian Monk while bringing him into the present,” said Beatrice Springborn, president of UCP,...

Exclusive: Claude Knowlton (Supergirl) and Antonio Cayonne (The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers) are set for key supporting roles in Disney Channel movie Under Wraps 2. The movie also will stream on Disney+.

Under Wraps director Alex Zamm returns to direct the upcoming sequel, penned by Josh A Cagan. The follow up to the 2021 remake of the first Disney Channel Original Movie of the same name, Under Wraps 2 picks up as Amy is preparing for her father’s Spooktacular Halloween-themed wedding to his fiancé Carl. However, plans soon go awry when Amy, Gilbert and Marshall discover that their mummy friend Harold and his beloved Rose may be in danger. Sobek, an evil mummy with a thousand-year-old grudge against his best friend-turned-bitter rival Harold, is unexpectedly awakened and out for revenge. With help from his hypnotized lackey Larry, Sobek kidnaps Rose, and Amy, Gilbert, Marshall, Buzzy and Harold must use their skills once...

From go, the third Psych movie was simply pregnant with possibilities.

Premiering this Thursday on the Peacock streaming service, Psych 3: This Is Gus finds the titular “Groomzilla” (played by Dulé Hill) and Bff Shawn (James Roday Rodriguez, who also co-wrote the movie) valiantly attempting to track down mom-to-be Selene’s estranged husband, in preparation for a shotgun wedding before the birth of Baby Guster.

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Art imitating life, in the case of Psych crime solver Carlton Lassiter, has profoundly moved series vet Timothy Omundson.

Omundson suffered a major stroke in April 2017, just as production on the original Psych: The Movie was getting underway; as such, Lassiter only appears via a brief FaceTime call with Juliet. In 2020, Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, as its title suggested, brought Omundson back to a greater degree, pinning the central mystery on the shooting of Lassiter, who then also suffered a stroke from which he started to recover throughout the TV-movie.

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Peacock announced that “Psych 3: This is Gus” will premiere on Nov. 18.

A spinoff of the USA Network detective comedy “Psych” and a sequel to “Psych: The Movie” and “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home,” the new film will see fake-psychic detective Shawn Spencer (James Roday Rodriguez) and his friend and partner Burton “Gus” Guster (Dulé Hill) investigate the double life and estranged husband of Gus’ fiancée Selene (Jazmyn Simon). They work the case while preparing for Gus’ shotgun wedding and new baby, as Chief Charlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) grapples with the future of his career.

In a new trailer, which you can watch below, Shawn and Gus reprise their old bits and catchphrases — knocking on doors and using fake names to question people, working in costume and telling each other to “suck it.”

Along with Rodriguez, Hill and Omundson, returning stars include Maggie Lawson as Juliet O’Hara, Kirsten Nelson as Karen Vick,...

Dulé Hill, meet your latest Psych rival.

TVLine has learned exclusively that Allen Maldonado (black-ish, The Last O.G.) is joining the cast of Psych 3: This Is Gus as the not-so-ex husband of Gus’ future bride, Selene.

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As previously reported, the Peacock threequel picks up on the eve of Gus and Selene’s (Jazmyn Simon) shotgun wedding and the birth of their first child, “Baby Guster.” However, before the nuptials can go down, Shawn...

Get ready for more Psych! Peacock has ordered a third movie based on the USA Network series starring Dulé Hill, James Roday Rodriguez, Corbin Bernsen, Kirsten Nelson, Maggie Lawson, and Timothy Omundson. The Psych TV series ran for eight seasons, from 2006 until 2014. The USA cable channel aired the first two reunion movies -- Psych: The Movie (2017) and Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2020).

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A third Psych movie has been given the go-ahead at Peacock, with James Roday Rodriguez and Dulé Hill on board to reprise their respective roles as Shawn and Gus. The third installment in the franchise follows 2017’s Psych: The Movie and 2020’s Psych 2: Lassie Come Home. The movies, of course, were preceded by Psych‘s eight-season run on USA Network.

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A third “Psych” revival movie, titled “Psych 3: This Is Gus,” has been ordered at Peacock, Variety has learned.

In the film, in preparation for a shotgun wedding before the birth of Baby Guster, Shawn (James Roday Rodriguez) and Groomzilla Gus (Dulé Hill) go rogue in an attempt to track down Selene’s (Jazmyn Simon) estranged husband, as Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) grapples with the future of his career.

Along with the previously announced cast members, original series stars Maggie Lawson, Kristen Nelson, and Corbin Bernsen will reprise their roles from the beloved USA Network series. The film will begin production in Vancouver this summer.

“Psych” creator Steve Franks will co-write along with Rodriguez. Both will also executive produce with Franks also directing. Hill is also an executive producer along with Chris Henze of Thruline.

“Psych” aired on USA Network for eight seasons and 120 episodes from 2006-2014. In that time, the...

The Psych gang will return for a third movie set to premiere on Peacock.

The NBCU streaming platform unveiled on Thursday a green light for Psych 3: This Is Gus, with production set to begin this summer in Vancouver. Following Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, the three-quel is named after Dulé Hill’s Burton “Gus” Guster.

In preparation for a shotgun wedding before the birth of Baby Guster, Shawn (James Roday Rodriguez) and Groomzilla Gus (Dulé Hill) go rogue in an attempt to track down Selene’s (Jazmyn Simon) estranged husband, as Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) grapples with the future of his career. Also set to reprise their roles from the series and films are Maggie Lawson as Juliet O’Hara, Timothy Omundson as Carlton Lassiter, Kirsten Nelson as Karen Vick and Corbin Bernsen as Henry Spencer.

The Psych movie franchise is a continuation of the original series, which aired on...

Dulé Hill and Laura Kariuki have been cast in “The Wonder Years” reboot pilot at ABC, Variety has learned.

They join previously announced cast members Elisha Williams, who will play main character Dean, and Saycon Sengbloh, who will play family matriarch Lillian. The project will show how a black middle-class family in Montgomery, Alabama in the turbulent late 1960s, made sure it was The Wonder Years for them too.

Hill will star as family patriarch Bill Williams. He’s a music professor by day and a funk musician by night – described by Adult Dean as “The baddest guy I knew.” Almost always calm and composed, his favorite words are “be cool.” Bill wants his family and their black, middle class neighborhood to remain self-sufficient and he puts his money where his mouth is.

Hill is known for starring in the NBC political drama “The West Wing” as well as the USA Network series “Psych.

Exclusive: Thruline Entertainment has put into development Abby Jimenez’s bestselling novel The Happy Ever After Playlist to be adapted as a feature by writer Marisa Coughlan and two-time Primetime Emmy winner director Gail Mancuso.

The Happy Ever After Playlist is a romantic comedy with a strong music element, tonally along the lines of The Truth About Cats and Dogs, 500 Days of Summer and Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. The plot follows Sloan, a young woman grieving the loss of her fiancé two years ago, Jason, a music star who has just made it big, and a trouble-making dog that brings the two perfect strangers together. The book became a summer publishing success story, appearing on numerous “Best Of” lists including Amazon, Oprah Mag, BuzzFeed, PopSugar, SheReads, and The Mary Sue. Jimenez’s first novel, The Friend Zone, was a USA Today bestseller and her next book, Life’s Too Short,...

Consumers are increasingly turning toward connected television streaming platforms, thereby transforming the landscape of TV advertising, and the ways marketers and storytellers reach target audiences.

As part of Variety’s Streaming Room series, presented by software company The Trade Desk, Variety interim editor-in-chief Cynthia Littleton, and deputy awards and features editor Jenelle Riley moderated a conversation on the future of connected TV advertising and storytelling. Featured panelists included Tim Sims, chief revenue officer of The Trade Desk; Krishan Bhatia, executive vice president of business operations and strategy at NBCUniversal’s Advertising Sales; and James Roday Rodriguez and Dulé Hill, executive producers and stars of “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home.”

The event highlighted how programmers are pivoting toward building data partnerships to form better, direct relationships with consumers, who are increasingly turning toward customizable digital services.

“How do we help our clients bring access to every impression on every screen, everywhere in the world?...

A new series of “The More You Know” PSAs will tackle systemic racism and speak up for social justice, equality and equity, NBCUniversal says. Participating will be a roster of NBC talent, including Dulé Hill, James Roday Rodriguez, Kelly Clarkson and Melissa Fumero, among others.

The campaign was developed in collaboration with social and racial justice organizations Fair Count, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, the NAACP, the National Action Network and the National Urban League, and focuses on standing up against injustice, teaching children about equity, and the importance of voting and completing the census, especially for how it impacts the Black community and communities of color.

The campaign kicked off yesterday on NBC’s Today with a spot on teaching children about inclusion and acceptance. The campaign will be rolling out over the next few weeks, with spots now available on TheMoreYouKnow.com and YouTube. The...

Break out the popcorn! Peacock is already home to a number of original television series, but the NBCUniversal streaming service is about to get its fair share of original movies, too. Joining Peacock's original film slate—which currently consists of flicks like Psych 2: Lassie Come Home and In Deep with Ryan Lochte—are Anthony, The Sit-In: Harry Belafonte Hosts the Tonight Show and Black Boys. The latter two are launching on Thursday, Sept. 10, while Anthony will be premiere on Friday, Sept. 4. Written by BAFTA-winning screenwriter Jimmy McGovern and produced by Colin McKeown and Donna Molloy, Anthony tells the story of 18-year-old Black student Anthony Walker,...

The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows. In this edition, see why fans have had such an adverse […]

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Tina Fey’s last streaming comedy proved that “females are strong as hell.” Now the prolific TV creator is set to double down on that message with the lead casting for her new Peacock sitcom.

Peacock revealed today that musician Sara Bareilles will serve as the lead on Girls5eva, an upcoming comedy from Fey and producing partner Robert Carlock. Girls5eva centers on a one-hit-wonder girls group from the ‘90s called “Girls5eva” When a young rapper samples one of their songs, it launches the group back into the national spotlight and gives them a chance at pop stardom once again. Peacock’s tagline reads: “They may be grown women balancing spouses, kids, jobs, debt, aging parents, and shoulder pain, but can‘t they also be Girls5eva?”

Meredith Scardino will serve as writer and executive producer for the series. Fey and Carlock will executive produce the show alongside Jeff Richmond,...

Harry Potter has a new home. Variety reports that all eight “Harry Potter” feature films will be available to stream on NBCUniversal’s fledgling streamer Peacock, with the films hitting the service later this year and continuing to be available through 2021. While the cinematic adaptations of J.K. Rowling’s beloved children’s series were available on another newbie streamer (that would be HBOMax) when it first hit screens earlier this year, the films are already set to leave that service on August 25.

“The Harry Potter franchise is beloved by people of all ages and represents the caliber of quality entertainment customers can expect to find on Peacock,” said Frances Manfredi, Peacock’s president of content acquisition and strategy, in an official statement. “We’ve built a world-class collection of iconic movies and shows, and we will continue to expand the film library with treasured titles from NBCUniversal and beyond that...

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Of course, a show about a fake psychic detective named Shawn Spencer (James Roday) and his best friend Burton "Gus" Guster (Dulé Hill) was destined to be hilarious. In fact, one of the best things about Psych is that in order to get pretty much anywhere in an investigation, Shawn usually gives Gus a ridiculous nickname to fit the situation. Over eight seasons and two movies, Shawn has given Gus around 104 nicknames, give or take. While he mostly goes along with them, every now and again, he is given veto power, which he heavily invokes during Psych 2: Lassie Come Home. We picked some of our favorites below - and no, we didn't rank them, it was just too hard!

Magic Head: featured in season one, episode eight, "Shawn vs. the Red Phantom" Chocolate Columbo: featured in season one, episode eight, "Shawn vs. the Red Phantom...

Early on in the Psych pilot, Shawn Spencer’s (James Roday Rodriguez) ludicrous plot to impersonate a psychic in order to solve crime suddenly takes on grave stakes: Chief Vick (Kirsten Nelson) informs him that if he’s lying, he’ll be prosecuted for hindering a police investigation. Just like that, he’s locked into his lie, and has no choice but to let it snowball—into a private eye business with his best friend Burton Guster (Dulé Hill), but also into a lucrative consultancy gig for the Santa Barbara Police Department that, psychic antics be damned, legitimately saves lives.

But while it’s the Chief who put the fear of God into Shawn, the true threat to his secret was always one Carlton Jebediah Lassiter (Timothy Omundson). In the early seasons, Lassiter was the perfect foil: a by-the-book detective obsessed with proper procedure and with hypermasculinity, who had patience...

Exclusive: Frequent collaborators James Roday Rodriguez (A Million Little Things) and Todd Harthan (The Resident) have partnered on Good Serial, a darkly twisted, genre mashing comedy project , which has been set up at 20th Century Fox TV where The Resident showrunner Harthan is under an overall deal.

Written by Roday Rodriguez and Harthan, Good Serial is centered on a trio of roommates, bonded by tragedy, who become vigilantes serving cold dishes of revenge in the spirit of Dexter and Three’s Company.

As a writing team, Roday Rodriguez and Harthan, previously collaborated on the feature films Gravy (2015), directed by Roday Rodriguez, and Skinwalkers(2006) as well as the Treehouse episode of Hulu’s Into the Dark anthology (also directed by Roday Rodriguez).

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This story contains mild spoilers for Psych 2: Lassie Come Home.  When Psych ended its run on USA in 2014, it didn't really "end." Creator Steve Franks was already talking about the many movies he planned to make back then, and there was never a sense that the Psych office had closed for good, even as Shawn (James Roday Rodriguez), Gus (Dulé Hill), and Juliet (Maggie Lawson) followed Chief Vick (Kirsten Nelson) to San Francisco while Detective Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson) stayed behind in Santa Barbara. There was always talk of continuing the show, and for the fans, it felt like a promise. A when, not an if. Finally, Psych: The Movie was announced in early 2017, with plans for...

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It's hard to believe it, but Psych has done it again! NBC Universal's streaming site Peacock has officially launched, and with it, the next Psych movie, Psych 2: Lassie Come Home. And yes, it lived up to the hype.

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As fun as 2017’s Psych: The Movie was, its 2020 sequel Psych 2: Lassie Come Home will likely supplant it in Psych-Os’ hearts, because it’s got 500% more Carlton Lassiter (Timothy Omundson). But how does it stack up to its predecessor in terms of Psych callbacks and pop culture homages? Using our Spencer powers of observation, we’ve tried to catch every recurring inside joke between Shawn (James Roday Rodriguez) and Gus (Dulé Hill), plus all the episodic-specific bits. It’s a feature-length Hitchcock homage, but it’s also the toughest Easter egg hunt of your life. C’mon, son!

Psych 2: Lassie Come Home Easter Eggs and References

The title is a reference to Lassie Come Home, the 1943 Lassie movie about the beloved dog making her way home from Scotland. A German-language remake came out early in 2020.

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Peacock marks the last, but not the least, of 2020’s major streaming service debuts. NBCUniversal’s big-money platform launched nationally today and, though it offers a wealth of head-turning content from the conglomerate’s film and television portfolios, as well as a variety of upcoming originals, Peacock has its work cut out for it in an incredibly competitive market.

The problem is that same strength holds true for most of the industry’s streaming services, both new and old, and Peacock’s late launch does it no particular favors. Peacock boasts a wide range of popular titles such as “30 Rock,” “Parks and Recreation,” and “Saturday Night Live,” while “The Office” will hit the platform next year. The number of recent headlines about companies paying millions to secure distribution rights to enduringly popular content suggests that Peacock’s exclusive streaming of those aforementioned comedies could be a considerable draw, but...

NBC's new streaming service Peacock is officially here and teeming with loads of original content for your enjoyment, including the dystopian drama Brave New World, which is based on Aldous Huxley's novel of the same name, and the anticipated Psych: The Movie sequel Psych 2: Lassie Come Home.  

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The Peacock streaming service launches tomorrow and subscribers will have free access to more than 13,000 hours of current and older programming from the NBCUniversal vault. Paid subscribers will have access to more than 20,000 hours of content, including series created specifically for Peacock. Shows premiering tomorrow include Brave New World, The Capture, Intelligence, DreamWorks Where's Waldo?, DreamWorks Cleopatra In Space, and Curious George. Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, the second Psych reunion movie, will also be released tomorrow.

Today, in addition to touting their offerings for free and paid subscribers, Peacock also released some upcoming series premiere dates. Sitcom A.P. Bio, which was cancelled by NBC after two seasons and later revived by Peacock, will have its third season debut on September 3rd. Canadian drama series Departure, about a missing airliner, will debut on September 17th. Five Bedrooms, about a group of singles who buy a house together,...

As NBC’s new streaming platform Peacock Peacock Opens Wide: Here’s What’s Streaming On Its Free And Premium Tiers, the star of its Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, James Roday, is beginning a new journey of his own.

In an interview with TVLine, the actor describes his decision to switch his stage name to his birth surname, becoming James Roday Rodriguez. His given middle name is David, which he has replaced with Roday, given 20-plus years working under that moniker.

Rodriguez says the idea began with conversations he had with his father about their family heritage and what his parents and grandparents went through growing up in Texas.

“It’s a deeply personal decision that I am doing for me,” said Rodriguez. “And I just hope it’s something that can be amplified. I hope we are all having these conversations in our lives. I hope we are all reflecting.

James Roday Rodriguez went by “James Roday” for over 20 years, electing to forego the use of his last name professionally.

But he said the process of reconnecting with his Mexican American heritage prompted him to add his last name to all future credits, starting with Wednesday’s premiere of “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home” on Peacock. In an interview with TVLine, Rodriguez discussed why he’s adding Rodriguez back into his name and the events that led to his decision to drop it in the first place.

“For me, because I’ve always had a bit of a strange relationship with my own heritage, I started talking to my dad in, like, a real way,” he said in the interview.

“It was so edifying, listening to my father talk about what it was like to be a brown person growing up in this country — and in Texas, no less,” he went on.

The wait is almost over, “Psych” fans. Among the many offerings that will be available when NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, Peacock, launches nationwide Wednesday is “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home,” the long-awaited sequel to “Psych: The Movie.”

Now, seeing as it’s been a while since the first “Psych” film debuted on USA Network in December 2017 — and even longer since the detective dramedy series ended its eight season run in 2014 — we’re willing to bet that even the most die-hard fans don’t remember exactly where we left things with Shawn (James Roday) and Gus (Dulé Hill). Well, don’t worry, because we’re here to recap it all for you so that you’re fully prepared for the premiere of “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home” tomorrow.

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Peacock, NBCUniversal's streaming service, will be stepping into the streaming wars this week, and when it does, it will have a nice chunk of new content in addition to beloved shows like The Office, Friday Night Lights, and Downton Abbey, and movies like The Bourne Identity franchise and The Matrix

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The streaming service field is becoming more fractured, as more and more media companies break from Netflix, Amazon Prime, and Hulu in favor of creating their own streaming services. NBCUniversal—the Comcast Corp. division that owns NBC, MSNBC, USA, and the Universal Pictures movie studio—is next up with new streaming service Peacock.

Peacock will feature content from NBC, Bravo, USA Network, Syfy, Oxygen, E!, CNBC, MSNBC, Nbcsn, Golf Channel, Universal Kids, A&e, ABC, CBS, The CW, Fox, History, Nickelodeon, Showtime, Universal Pictures, DreamWorks, Focus Features, Illumination, ViacomCBS, Paramount, Lionsgate, Warner Bros., and Blumhouse.

Here’s what we know:

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Peacock was made available to Comcast’s Xfinity X1 platform subscribers on April 15, 2020. The service will officially roll out to the rest of the country on July 15, 2020. NBCUniversal has plans for an international release of the service but no timeframe has been announced yet.

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Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, launches nationwide Wednesday with hundreds of titles, including beloved TV series, blockbuster film franchises and some originals created specifically for the platform.

And while we’re willing to bet you’ve heard classics like “Cheers” and “30 Rock” and originals “Brave New World” and “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home” are among the offerings that will be available at launch, we’re also pretty sure you don’t know how many other shows and movies you’ll have access to on Day 1.

Well, don’t worry, because TheWrap has rounded up a list of the biggest films and TV series that will be streaming on Peacock when the service rolls out for everyone tomorrow. (It’s been available to Comcast and Cox subscribers since April.)

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NBCUniversal’s Peacock is set to go live on July 15 for a national audience, stuffed with more than 20,000 hours for Premium subscribers — and more than 13,000 hours entirely for free.

So what’s on the service? Here’s a breakdown of what to stream on Peacock Free and Peacock Premium, including original TV shows and movies. While Peacock will be available on platforms including those from Apple, Google, Xbox, LG, Vizio, Comcast and Cox, it will not be on Roku or Amazon Fire TV.

Content on both tiers

Both Peacock’s free and premium tiers will feature current-season episodes and specials from NBC and Telemundo; news, sports and pop-culture programming; and more than 30 genre channels including live news from NBC News Now and Sky News, curated channels with clips from shows like “The Office” (which will roll off Netflix at the end of 2020 to come to Peacock in January 2021), “Saturday Night Live,...

Peacock has picked up Departure, the Canadian drama starring The Good Wife’s Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer, ahead of the service’s nationwide launch Wednesday.

The NBCU streamer has acquired the rights to the drama, which was originally commissioned by Canada’s Global. The company already has rights to the six-part thriller in a number of international territories including the UK.

The show stars Panjabi as investigator Kendra Malley, who alongside her mentor, played by Knives Out star Plummer, are brought on to search for missing passenger plane Flight 716. When battling forces threaten to undermine their work, Kendra must find the truth and stop it from happening again.

The series also stars Kris Holden-Reid (Umbrella Academy), Rebecca Liddiard (Run This Town), Tamara Duarte (Longmire), Mark Rendall (Versailles), Peter Mensah and Sasha Roiz (Suits).

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The wait is almost over, “A.P. Bio” fans. On Tuesday, Peacock, NBCUniversal’s new streaming service, revealed the premiere date for Season 3 of the Glenn Howerton-led comedy, which was originally canceled at NBC last May and then picked up by Peacock the following month.

The third season of “A.P. Bio” will launch Sept. 3 on Peacock, according to the streaming service, which rolls out nationwide Wednesday. Other upcoming Peacock original series that received debut dates from the platform today include “Departure,” a Canadian-British drama starring Archie Panjabi and Christopher Plummer, which will premiere Sept. 17, Australian comedy “Five Bedrooms” (Aug. 13) and the Sky Studios-produced “Hitmen” (Aug. 6).

While you still have to wait a little while for these series to drop, Peacock is launching in full tomorrow with originals “Brave New World,” “The Capture,” “Intelligence,” “Psych 2: Lassie Come Home,” “Where’s Waldo?,” “Cleopatra In Space” and ”Curious George,” along with an extensive lineup of library content.

Yes, we are inundated with streaming options.

Instead of the promise of all of our content being easier to navigate, not to mention less expensive, there is more to keep track of than ever before.

NBCUniversal's Peacock arrives to the public on Wednesday, July 15. Free for all with ads, to watch their originals, you'll need one of their premium plans. One has ads, and the other is ad-free.

We know services are always worth the additional cost for the ad-free versions. After all, with all the content available, time is essential.

But is one of the premium tiers worth the extra money?

Upon launch, there will be four scripted originals for adults.

They include Peacock's flagship show, Brave New World, based on the novel by Aldus Huxley, The Capture, a conspiracy thriller from the UK, Intelligence, a comedy from Nick Mohammed starring David Schwimmer, and Psych 2: Lassie Come Home.

Psych-Os, our long wait is finally over. The Psych movie sequel hits Peacock on Wednesday, July 15, so get ready to return to Santa Barbara once more in Psych 2: Lassie Come Home. 

Coming six years after Psych ended its eight-season run on USA and three years after Psych: The Movie debuted, Lassie

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James Rodriguez was a freshman at New York University when the then-aspiring actor first learned that his Mexican-American heritage was going to be a problem for Hollywood.

He had just nailed an audition for a big feature film, but the casting director was put off by the fact that his Caucasian-like skin tone was out of sync with his last name. So he was offered the chance to read for the role of a gang member, only to be told that he wasn’t right for that, either.

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Duh-duh. Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh. Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh. Doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo-doo. That elaborately recreated and stunningly accurate rendition of the 30 Rock theme song can only mean one thing: 30 Rock is almost back!

Last month, NBC announced that it was bringing back its mid-2000s classic comedy 30 Rock for one more installment. And in true 30 Rock fashion, this would be something a little more meta than your usual reunion special. Since NBCUniversal is unable to hold in-person “upfronts” to promote their upcoming TV slate to advertisers, 30 Rock is going to do the task for them.

30 Rock A One-Time Special will catch up with Liz Lemon (Tina Fey), Jack Donaghy (Alec Baldwin), Tracy Jordan (Tracy Morgan), Jenna Maroney (Jane Krakowski), Kenneth Parcell (Jack McBrayer), and more in their post-tgs lives. It will also stealthily introduce many of NBCUniversal’s titles across NBC’s channels and will feature special guest stars to boost “the...

It's been six years since USA Network's Psych went off the air, but the friendship between the show's stars James Roday and Dulé Hill is as strong as ever. In fact, sometimes it's hard to tell where James and Dulé end and their characters Shawn Spencer and Burton Guster begin. This is evident by their witty banter in nearly ever interview they've done together. Over the years, the actors have formed a strong bond, with Dulé often calling James his "brother" on social media and James being a groomsman at Dulé and Jazmyn Simon's 2018 wedding.

As to why their friendship as Shawn and Gus is so believable, Dulé told The Futon Critic, "we vibe very well off-camera and that helps with the chemistry onscreen, in that we both like to have a good time, crack jokes, and sing songs from the '80s, and that helps us . . . keep things in tune on-screen.

NBCUniversal’s Peacock is nearly here, and the upcoming streaming service is promising a bevy of originals and popular library content for early adopters.

Peacock, which is the last of the major streaming services to hit the market this year, will launch nationally July 15. The streaming service will be available in several tiers:

a free, ad-supported version of Peacock that will offer a limited amount of library content and select episodes from Peacock’s original series Peacock Premium, Tier 1, will cost $4.99 per month and include ads Peacock Premium, Tier 2, will cost $9.99 per month, but eliminates advertising from all viewing

Peacock Premium will also be available at a discounted rate for prospective subscribers with certain cable packages: Comcast X1 and Flex subscribers can get the $4.99 version of Peacock Premium for free, while the $9.99 version will be available for $4.99 per month. Peacock will also offer free trials and sizable discounts for early...

Psych is back, and Lassie's coming home.  We're less than a week away from the launch of Peacock and the premiere of Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, the latest movie version of everybody's favorite (fake) psychic detective series. This time, Carlton Lassiter (Tim Omundson) is in trouble, and Shawn (James Roday), Gus (Dule Hill), Juliet (Maggie Lawson), and Chief Vick (Kirsten Nelson) all do their best to help him, even if it means getting themselves into some serious trouble.  The movie is not only about Lassiter, but it also serves as the show's sort of "welcome back" to Timothy Omundson, who suffered a stroke right before filming on the first movie began, meaning the entire first movie...

One of the handful of originals that will launch NBCUniversal’s Peacock streaming platform is Psych 2: Lassie Come Home. The second Psych followup movie, reuniting the cast and the creative auspices of the long-running USA Network crime dramedy, had been originally commissioned by USA but was shifted to Peacock. There, it may be be followed by more standalone films.

“The Psych movie we are very excited about; people are buzzing about being able to see it on the service,” Bill McGoldrick, President of Original Content, NBCUniversal Entertainment Networks and Direct-to-Consumer, told Deadline during an interview tied to Peacock’s July 15 launch. “We are going to see how this movie performs but we’ve loved the collaboration, we are going to be in constant conversation with that group, and we are open to talking about more.”

Also making more Psych original movies a strong proposition is the strength of the Psych library,...

Psych: The Movie, when it was released in 2017, was clearly a love letter for the avid Psych-Os missing fake psychic Shawn Spencer (James Roday), his platonic life partner Burton Guster (Dulé Hill), and the rest of the Santa Barbara Police Department after the series wrapped in 2014. From a David Bowie-loving villain to a #TeamGrimmie T-shirt, it was the best kind of fan service. Psych 2: Lassie Come Home, then, is undoubtedly a love letter from the cast and crew of Psych to one of their own: actor Timothy Omundson and his grouchy yet heroic alter ego, detective Carlton Lassiter, both undergoing recovery for a stroke. Psych 2, which premieres July 15 on Peacock, is a surprisingly poignant example of art imitating life while still ushering a crew of beloved characters through personal and professional life changes.

Because of the timing of Omundson’s stroke prior to shooting the first movie,...

The final moments of 2017’s Psych: The Movie are literally explosive: Professional fake psychic Shawn Spencer (James Roday) and partner-in-crime-solving Burton Guster (Dulé Hill) watch their newly-christened San Francisco-based practice go up in laser-sniper-fire from whoever’s hot on the trail of Shawn’s brother-in-law Ewan O’Hara (John Cena). It might have seemed an obvious setup for an eventual second Psych movie, with the titular duo following in the wake of Ewan’s ex-Black-Ops adventures, but instead creator Steve Franks and Roday (who shares a co-writing credit on both movies) went for a quieter and more emotionally resonant angle in their followup.

It’s all in the title, which will tug at many a Psych-O’s heartstrings: Psych 2: Lassie Come Home. Mere weeks before shooting began on Psych: The Movie, cast member Timothy Omundson suffered a stroke that left him unable to reprise his role from the USA series,...