11/18/2023 0 Comments Parks and rec netflix streaming![]() It even struggled to get renewed during its first few years. Still, there’s a case to be made that what’s good for Peacock (exclusive rights to a much-loved comedy) is bad for the long-term popularity of Parks. Unlike Friends or even The Office at its peak, Parks was never a ratings blockbuster. ![]() It’s a much less dire situation than the one many Friends superfans found themselves in when WarnerMedia decided to make that show available on a service with the biggest monthly price tag ($15 per month) of any big streamer. And now that the streamer has struck a carriage deal with Roku, Peacock is pretty widely available (though it’s still not on Amazon’s Fire TV platform). While there will be ad breaks, you don’t need to subscribe (or even have a cable login) to keep watching the show on Peacock. In the case of Parks, the good news for viewers is that, at least for now, Peacock is making all seasons of Parks available on its free tier. Similarly, Friends was homeless for the first part of 2020 because WarnerMedia wanted it to anchor the May launch of HBO Max. Disney has pulled back most of its blockbuster movies from Netflix over the last three years so it could sell Disney+ as the destination for almost every big thing in the Disney vaults. ![]() Instead of hopping between the aforementioned Big Three, content is now being spread out to at least six well-funded platforms demanding consumers’ attention and, oftentimes, their money. Streaming subscribers have sort of gotten used to content musical chairs over the years, but the launch of HBO Max, Disney+, and now Peacock has added a whole new layer of annoyance for fans who just want to be able to stream their favorite old TV shows and movies. As part of the same strategy, NBCU-owned The Office will also become a Peacock exclusive early next year when it leaves its long-time digital home on Netflix. The development was not a surprise: NBCUniversal, which owns Peacock and controls the rights to Parks, said last year that it was taking back streaming rights to several of its legacy hits in order to build an audience base for Peacock. Today, short of buying it, fans looking for a Pawnee fix will have to download Peacock if they want on-demand access to the beloved comedy. Yesterday, Parks and Recreation was available on multiple streaming platforms, including the Big Three of Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon Prime Video.
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