Peacock's October Streaming Lineup Includes 'Harry Potter' & 'Parks & Rec'

NBC's Peacock streaming service technically soft-launched on April 15 for anyone with Comcast. But the full release to most households came in July and widened further still in September when the app finally arrived on Roku. With a reported 15 million users signed up by mid-September, the streaming service has officially arrived as part of the gaggle of apps available to viewers to choose from. So, what's coming to NBC's Peacock in October? There's a bunch of family favorites on the way.

Peacock is a little different than its competitors. Unlike Apple and Disney, it's not emphasizing new shows as much as it is its library of older content. There's a good reason for that: NBC offers its older stuff to anyone who signs up for free. While some will still opt for the paid tier (and probably many more will do so when the Olympics arrive in 2021), much of Peacock's library treats its content the same way it did when it was NBC over-the-air broadcast for decades: free with commercials. It also has “Genre Channels” which stream nothing but certain franchises of programming (think The Law & Order Channel).

TV lovers are going to be pumped for what's showing up come Oct. 1. First up, for the fans of Lesley Knope, there's every season of Parks & Recreation. For sketch-comedy aficionados, there are all 45 seasons of Saturday Night Live. And then there's the Harry Potter film franchise, which exited HBO Max at the end of August; after the appropriate waiting period, it's now on NBC's Peacock and will stay there through the month's end. In addition to all this, there’s also a ton of Halloween titles, including some classic selections from the Alfred Hitchcock library.

Here's the full list of arrivals:

Oct. 1

• Abbott & Costello: Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
• Abbott & Costello: Frankenstein
• Abbott & Costello: Invisible Man
• Abbott & Costello: Mummy
• Alfred Hitchcock Hour
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents
• American Psycho
• The Amityville Haunting
• Anna
• Annelise: The Exorcist
• Apocalypto
• A Beautiful Mind
• The Bell Witch Haunting
• The Birds
• The Blues Brothers
• The Boy Next Door
• Bride of Frankenstein
• Captivity
• Charmed Season 1-8
• Cold Case Files Season 1-6
• Cooties
• Creature From the Black Lagoon
• The Crush
• The Curse of the Werewolf
• Darkman
• Dawn of the Dead
• Dracula
• Down A Dark Hall
• The Elvira Movie Macabre Library
• E.T.
• The Exorcist III
• Eureka Season 1-5
• Family Plot
• Fast & Furious
• The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift
• Fear
• Firestarter: Rekindled
• The First 48 Season 1-19
• For A Good Time, Call…
• Forensic Files
• Frankenstein
• Frankenstein Meets Wolfman
• Frenzy
• Get Him to The Greek
• Ghost Hunters International Season 1-3
• The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
• The Grudge
• Hard Candy
• Harry Potter & The Philosopher's Stone
• Harry Potter & The Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter & The Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire
• Harry Potter & The Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter & The Half-Blood Prince
• Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 1
• Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows Part 2
• The Haunting in Connecticut
• Hellboy II: The Golden Army
• Hollowman
• Horsemen
• The Invisible Man
• It Follows
• Jigsaw
• King Kong
• Knock Knock
• Leatherface
• The Little Ghost
• The Lonely Guy
• Mama
• The Man Who Knew Too Much
• Marnie
• Matinee
• Miss Congeniality
• Monster House
• Monster High: Fri Night Frights
• Monster High: Ghouls Rule
• Monster High: Boo York
• Monster High: Haunted
• Monster High: Freaky Fusion
• Monster High: Why Ghouls Fall in Love?
• Monster High: Scaris, City of Frights
• Monster High: Great Scarrier Reef
• Monster High: Escape from Skull Shores
• Monster High: Frights, Camera, Action!
• Monster-in-Law
• The Munsters
• Open Windows
• Pac-Man & Ghostly Adventures Season 1-3
• Paranormal Witness Season 1-5
• Parks and Recreation Season 1-7
• Phantom of the Opera
• Pitch Black
• Play Misty for Me
• Prime
• Psycho
• The Purge
• Rear Window
• Riddick
• R.I.P.D.
• R.L. Stine: The Haunting Hours
• R.L. Stine: Mostly Ghostly
• R.L. Stine: Mostly Ghostly 2
• R.L. Stine: Mostly Ghostly 3
• R.L. Stine’s Monsterville
• Rope
• Saboteur
• Sabrina the Teenage Witch
• Sacred Lies
• San Andreas
• Saturday Night Live Season 1-45
• Shadow of a Doubt
• Shrek
• Sinister
• Sleepaway Camp
• Smokin’ Aces
• Spine Chilling Stories Season 1-2
• So Shook Season 1
• Tale of Despereaux
• Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
• Terminator Salvation
• Topaz
• Torn Curtain
• The Trouble With Harry
• Tyler Perry’s Boo 2!
• Unsolved Mysteries Season 1-9
• Vertigo
• Warehouse 13 Season 1-5
• The Wedding Date
• The Wilding
• You, Me and Dupree
• You Should Have Left
• Zombieland

Oct. 3

• 2020 French Open Third Round

Oct. 4

• 2020 French Open Fourth Round
• Saturday Night Live Season 46 (NBC Premiere)

Oct. 5

• 2020 French Open Coverage

Oct. 7

• Ellen’s Game of Games Season 4 (NBC Premiere)

Oct 8

• Code 404 (Peacock Original)

Oct. 9

• Connecting (NBC Premiere)
• Hell’s Kitchen Season 18
• Keeping Up With the Kardashians Season 18

Oct. 14

• El Domo De Dinero (Telemundo Premiere)

Oct. 15

• Billboard Music Awards 2020
• Curse of Chucky
• Freedia Got a Gun (Peacock Original Documentary)
• La Casa De Al Lado
• Mr. Mercedes Season 1-2 (Peacock Exclusive)

Oct. 16

• The Fall Season 1-3
• The Purge Season 2

Oct. 21

• Madagascar A Little Wild: Halloween

Oct. 23

• The Way I See It (Peacock Original Documentary)

Oct. 28

• This Is Us Season 5 (NBC Premiere)

Oct. 30

• Superstore Season 6 (NBC Premiere)

New Peacock Genre Channels

Oct. 1

• Whistle TV

Oct. 21

• The Rotten Tomatoes Channel

Oct. 28

• DUST Channel