NBC Peacock: First Impressions Of Adult Animation Offerings (Or Lack Thereof)

Earlier this week, Comcast went ahead and launched it’s first streaming service known as NBC Peacock.

For those don’t know, Peacock has three tiers of service: Free, Premium, and Premium Plus. The Free tier has a subset of the content of the upper two tiers and targets its users with advertising. The middle tier, Peacock Premium, has the advertising as well but provides the full library of content. In both ad-supported tiers, commercials are limited to five minutes per hour. The upper tier, Peacock Premium Plus, provides the full library without ads. Peacock Free is available at no charge to all U.S. Internet users. Peacock Premium is available for $5 per month but also is included in some services from TV service providers including Xfinity and Cox Communications. Subscribers to Peacock Premium, whether subscribing directly or receiving service through a provider, can upgrade to the ad-free service, Peacock Premium Plus, for an additional $5 per month.

Adult animation has been a big focal point for just about every streaming service on the market today. Netflix continues to pick up original series by the bundles, Hulu, Amazon Prime and CBS All Access may not have the quantity of Netflix for original series, but the quality is very much there, and even HBO MAX had invested quite a bit to make sure they get one of the biggest animated franchises of all time…South Park. With all of this going on, NBC Peacock remained very much quiet on the adult animation front, but really this could be just calm before the storm.

For starters, finding adult animation on NBC Peacock proved to be very difficult on initial playthrough. My best bet, going to TV shows and viewing all and then doing the same for movies. Next, for television, the number of examples of former primetime animation are quaint and can probably be counted on with one hand. As of this writing, I saw Starveillance, The Goode Family, Father of the Pride, and my personal favorite discovery, both seasons of Code Monkeys. For films, Ted and The Chronicles of Riddick: Dark Fury.

That’s it for now. But, my hopes are high with Syfy getting ready to debut a litany of original series and the company’s signing of Seth MacFarlane to an overall deal, more should be on the way in droves. For now, if you’re looking for a bunch of adult animation on NBC’ Peacock streaming service, you’re gonna have to wait a bit (or just watch Code Monkeys for FREE!).