Parks and recreation missing from peacock

[Rl31walshy]

Parks and recreation seems to have disappeared from peacock. 

I knew it was leaving Netflix but what's going on with peacock? 

[d2h]

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@Rl31walshy wrote:

Parks and recreation seems to have disappeared from peacock. 

I knew it was leaving Netflix but what's going on with peacock? 

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Their UK implementation of Peacock is a shambles and it seems like they just don't know what to do with it as they have Sky and NOW doing what Peacock does in the US. I can't see it ever launching as a stand-alone service in the UK unless they close both NOW and Hayu and merge the two into Peacock. 

[Timelord2018]

Quantum Leap (still available on Syfy soon to be Sky Sci-Fi) , Warehouse 13 , Grimm (still available under Sky Max possibly might get rebadged as Sky Sci-Fi) have been removed from it aswell, I think 30 Rock has been removed aswell.

I agree they don't seem to know what to do with it, , it's also used a catch up for NBCU content in the US but Sky have their own On Demand service and Now for that, one of their Comedies 'Killing It' was sold to E4.

[Plektrum]

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@d2h wrote:

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@Rl31walshy wrote:

Parks and recreation seems to have disappeared from peacock. 

I knew it was leaving Netflix but what's going on with peacock? 

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Their UK implementation of Peacock is a shambles and it seems like they just don't know what to do with it as they have Sky and NOW doing what Peacock does in the US. I can't see it ever launching as a stand-alone service in the UK unless they close both NOW and Hayu and merge the two into Peacock. 

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Honestly I think the Peacock launch is actually more indicative that they do know to do with it... I think a standalone service would have had severe difficulty cutting through especially without any of the things that it leans on in the US like next day TV, WWE and live sports... also I suspect it would have been rather hard to position due to Hayu and Sky/Now, both of which already do what Peacock does (and more)... I agree there's probably more library content they should make available and they likely could have launched more of the originals rather than selling off the likes of Killing It, **bleep** As Folk and Dr Death but given that NBCU apparently were flip-flopping on whether it would even launch in Europe, I really don't think there was (or even still is) any intention to go in that hard over here when there is already a scaled product they can leverage and given that Comcast appear to be further leaning into the Sky brand in Europe I'm not inclined to think they'll rebrand Now... if there was a standalone Peacock launch in the future here I honestly think Hayu would be the one to get revamped given the significant crossover of reality content already but even then I'm not entirely convinced either. 

[Plektrum]

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@Timelord2018 wrote:

Quantum Leap (still available on Syfy soon to be Sky Sci-Fi) , Warehouse 13 , Grimm (still available under Sky Max possibly might get rebadged as Sky Sci-Fi) have been removed from it aswell, I think 30 Rock has been removed aswell.

I agree they don't seem to know what to do with it, , it's also used a catch up for NBCU content in the US but Sky have their own On Demand service and Now for that, one of their Comedies 'Killing It' was sold to E4.

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I wouldnt be surprised if Killing It drops onto Peacock after it's Channel 4 window... if you can get a broadcast/first window sale on something which probably isn't going to move the needle like Bel Air I can somewhat understand the reasoning to sell it...

This article is quite telling about the NBCU approach which I guess you could reasonably extend to international sales as well - While owning the content streaming on Peacock is an important objective, “ironically, we’re selling more to third parties than we ever have,” Shell said. The company’s “willingness to sell content to third parties” comes with the expectation that those deals will enable shows to migrate back to Peacock down the road and augment its library.