Peacock, a streaming service from Comcast-owned NBCUniversal, launches Wednesday across the US, with a seven-day free trial for its premium tiers and an always-free tier that lets you sample about half its library of shows and movies with advertising. Peacock will have a big catalog, with about 20,000 hours of shows, movies, news, sports, skit-style clips and exclusive big-budget original programming. But, at least so far, it doesn't have deals in place for you to watch it on devices, and it's not planning to support
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Peacock launches across the US on Wednesday.
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Peacock, a streaming service from Comcast-owned NBCUniversal, launches Wednesday across the US, with a seven-day free trial for its premium tiers and an always-free tier that lets you sample about half its library of shows and movies with advertising. Peacock will have a big catalog, with about 20,000 hours of shows, movies, news, sports, skit-style clips and exclusive big-budget original programming. But, at least so far, it doesn't have deals in place for you to watch it on devices, and it's not planning to support