Peacock to Add 178 New Titles This Week – Here’s the 3 Most Interesting

By Phillip Swann
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Peacock this week (August 26-September 1, 2024) plans to add 178 TV shows and movies to its lineup. Here’s the three most interesting, in my humble opinion:

The Fall Guy (2024)
Peacock gets another streaming debut with a recent theatrical film with The Fall Guy which stars Ryan Gosling as a Hollywood stunt man whose work in his ex-girlfriend’s (Emily Blunt) film gets complicated when the lead actor mysteriously disappears. The director asks him to find the actor which turns out to be his most dangerous stunt yet. The comedy/adventure film is one of the great popcorn movies of the year, which means dim the lights, and your expectations, before viewing and you’ll enjoy. Debuts Friday, August 30.

Here Comes the Irish (Peacock Original Documentary)
NBC’s longstanding partnership with Notre Dame football continues with this exclusive Peacock documentary on the team’s prep for the 2024 season. Don’t expect Woodward and Bernstein here, but it should offer a behind-the-scenes peek at coach Marcus Freeman and QB1 Riley Leonard, among others. Debuts Thursday, August 29.

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986)
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off has become the American cinema’s best coming-of-age comedy ever thanks to the perfect performance by Matthew Broderick as the wisecracking and charismatic Ferris. The film, which features Ferris playing hooky from school, serves up everything you want from a comedy and more. And let’s not forget the great supporting work from Alan Buck as Ferris’ put-upon pal. Fun film!

Complete List of New Titles Coming This Week to Peacock:

Monday, August 26
The Anonymous, Season 1 – Premiere (USA)
Days of Our Lives, Season 60 – Premiere (Peacock)*

Tuesday, August 27
Girl on the Milk Carton – Premiere (Oxygen)

Wednesday, August 28
Opening Ceremony for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games

Thursday, August 29
Bel Air, Season 3 – 2 new Episodes, 60 min
Caillou, Season 1 – New Episodes
Toby Keith: American Icon (NBC)
Here Come The Irish (Peacock Original)*
Gary (Peacock Original)*

Friday, August 30
Book Club: Next Chapter*
The Fall Guy (Peacock exclusive; streaming debut)
The Fall Guy: The Extended Cut (Peacock Exclusive/Streaming Debut)*

Sunday, September 1
Bones, Seasons 1-12
Martin, Seasons 1-5
27 Dresses
30 Days of Night (2007)
Aftermath

All of My Heart
All of My Heart: Inn Love
All of My Heart: The Wedding
The Amazing Spider-Man
The Amazing Spider-Man 2

American Me
Americano
Amityville 3-D
The Amityville Harvest
Amityville II: The Possession

Amityville Moon
The Amityville Uprising
Anger Management
Blue Bayou
Bride of Frankenstein

Candyman (1992)
The Card Counter
Ca$h
Cesar Chavez
Child’s Play (1988)

Chronicle Mysteries: Helped to Death
Colombiana
The Creature Walks Among Us
Curse of the Werewolf
Dawn of the Dead

Dead Silence
The Devil’s Backbone
Dominion: Prequel To The Exorcist
Dracula (1979)
Dracula’s Daughter

The Evil of Frankenstein
Exorcist: The Beginning
Exposed
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them
Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
The Forever Purge
The Forger
Forrest Gump

Frankenstein (1931)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman
Friday Night Lights (2004)
The Frighteners
The Funhouse

Get Out
Goal! The Dream Begins
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Grudge (2004)
Hacksaw Ridge

Halloween (2018)
Halloween II
Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Halloween Kills
Happy Death Day

Happy Death Day 2U
Happy Gilmore
Head Over Heels (2024)
Her Smell
Holiday Hearts

Hollow Man
Hollow Man 2
Holly & Ivy
Honey (2003)
Hot Fuzz

Hotel Transylvania
Hotel Transylvania 2
Insidious
Insidious: Chapter 2
The Invisible Man Returns

The Invisible Man’s Revenge
The Invisible Woman (1940)
It Came From Outer Space
Kiss at Pine Lake
La Bamba

Land of the Dead
The Last Exorcism
Leatherface
Leprechaun
Leprechaun II

Little Rascals
Love Under the Rainbow
Mama
Mechanic: Resurrection
Mercy

Mr. Peabody & Sherman
Ms. Matched
The Mummy (2017)
The Mummy (1999)
The Mummy Returns

The Mummy’s Curse
The Mummy’s Ghost
The Mummy’s Hand
The Mummy’s Tomb
My Blueberry Nights

A Nashville Christmas Carol
National Lampoon’s Animal House
Night Monster
Night of the Living Dead (1990)
Night of the Living Dead 3D

Night of the Living Dead: Resurrection
North to Home
Once Upon a Time in Mexico
Pain and Glory
Paul

The People Under the Stairs
Perfect Harmony (2022)
Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Phantom of the Opera (1962)
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead Over Diamonds

Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Newlywed and Dead
Pretty Persuasion
Prince of Darkness
Quinceañera

Raise a Glass to Love
The Raven (1935)
Robin Hood
The Rundown
The Santa Stakeout

Savages
Saw
Saw 2
Saw 3
Saw 4

Saw 5
Saw 6
Saw: The Final Chapter (AKA Saw 3D)
School of Rock
The Scorpion King

The Serpent and The Rainbow
Shaun the Sheep
Shaun the Sheep (2015)
Shaun of the Dead
Shocker

The Skeleton Key
Skyscraper
Slither
Snitch (2013)
Son of Frankenstein

Spare Parts
Split
The Strange Case of Doctor Rx
Studio 666
Sugar Plum Twist

Tales from the Hood
Texas Chainsaw 3D
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation
They Live
The Thing

Tremors
Tyler Perry’s A Madea Family Funeral
United 93
Us
Videodrome

Village of the Damned
Warm Bodies
Werewolf of London
Wild Card
World Trade Center
The World’s End

* Denotes exclusive to Peacock.

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