'Downton Abbey' Gets Its Own 24/7 Channel on Peacock
Peacock is set to start streaming Downton Abbey 24 hours a day, seven days a week on a dedicated new channel.
The NBC platform also nabbed exclusive rights(Opens in a new window) to the new film called Downton Abbey: A New Era, which will make its streaming debut June 24.
Check in on the Crawley family and their staff at any hour of any day—whether you want background noise while completing other tasks, or like to fall asleep ogling early Brits from the early 1900s. Newbies, however, may want to stick to Peacock's on-demand viewing options. All six seasons of the hit show, the first movie (Downton Abbey), and the one-hour special The Manners of Downton Abbey, are currently available on Peacock.
This isn't Peacock's first dedicated channel: The Office became a 24/7 ambient sound station(Opens in a new window) in 2021, following its departure from Netflix and eight years after the sitcom ended. Fans can tune in to The Office Zen to watch random episodes on a non-stop loop.
Directed by Simon Curtis and written by original creator Julian Fellowes, Downton Abbey: A New Era hit US theaters on May 20, taking audiences on a journey to France with part of the Crawley family, while others welcome a film production company to the estate. The principal cast—including Hugh Bonneville, Elizabeth McGovern, Michelle Dockery, and Maggie Smith—returns, while fans can also look forward to new additions Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye, Dominic West, and Jonathan Zaccaï.
A New Era is one of a number of NBCUniversal movies—including The 355 and Halloween Ends—set to stream on Peacock no later than four months after their theatrical release. The deal, inked in July 2021, is bad news for HBO, which will lose exclusive access to
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