The Office – Season Two – John Krasinski as Jim Halbert, Jenna Fisher as Pam Paisley, Ryan Wilson as Dwight Schrute, Steve Carrell as Michael Scott, PJ Novak as Ryan Howard
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Happy Holidays, “The Office” fans – you’re about to get the first two seasons of the sitcom for free.
Chapters 1 and 2 of “The Office” It will be available on the free version of PeacockOn Monday, the company said, the NBCUniversal broadcast service. The company said Monday that seasons 3 through 9 will be at the paid levels of Peacock. The ad-supported premium subscription costs $ 4.99 / month. An ad-free version is available for $ 9.99 per month.
The “office” for years is Netflix Most viewed series, Will be available exclusively to Peacock subscribers starting January 1, 2021. Comcast’s NBCUniversal is counting on “The Office” to lead its Peacock subscription operations as the service hopes to compete with Disney +, Netflix, and a slew of other streaming products. In September, NBCUniversal reached a deal with Roku, the largest user-streaming distribution platform, just in time for the launch of “The Office”.
Peacock continues to negotiate a distribution transfer agreement with Amazon Fire TV.
In addition to the episodes of “The Office,” NBCUniversal will release behind-the-scenes footage, unprecedented interviews and clips, and deleted scenes for premium subscribers.
“The return of” The Office “to the NBC family gives access to much of the additional content we originally filmed, Greg Daniels, the creator of The Office, said in a statement. “You can choose to watch the classic version of the show, or extended stories extended with these new footage and other deleted scenes we’re gradually rolling out, starting with Season 3.”
NBCUniversal beat Netflix with $ 10 million per season for “The Office” last year, CNBC reported. NBCUniversal pays $ 500 million for 201 episodes of “The Office” for the next five years. Universal Television, a division of NBCUniversal, produced the show with Deedle-Dee Productions and Reveille Productions.
Comcast CEO Brian Roberts Announced in September That Peacock has 15 million subscriptions. NBCUniversal predicted in January that 30 million to 35 million Peacock accounts would be active by 2024. AT&T said Advance in this month The main streaming service, HBO Max, has 12.6 million subscribers, while last week Disney said it has Disney + More than 86 million global users.
Disclosure: NBCUniversal is the parent company of CNBC.
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