This pandemic hasn’t been especially kind to budding streaming platforms like Quibi and HBO Max, but that isn’t stopping NBCUniversal from unleashing its long-gestating service Peacock, the next home of some hard-fought favorites and new original programming. Today, the digital hopeful debuted its first look at some of its original offerings ranging from David Schwimmer as an NSA agent with unearned confidence to an animated look at a time-traveling, teenage Cleopatra. With Peacock nearing its July 15 debut, here’s a roundup of the newly released trailers. We covered the Brave New World and Psych 2 trailers a little more in-depth, in case you’re interested.
Intelligence
Once you’ve burned through every episode of Friends on HBO Max, you can follow David Schwimmer to the U.K. for Peacock’s new workplace comedy, Intelligence. Per the network, the series is “set in the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters – a kind of weedier, geekier, more bureaucratic version of MI5 and MI6, where they tackle international and domestic Cyber Crime from a desktop.” Schwimmer plays a pompous agent who is called in to combat cyber terrorism.
The Capture
The Capture aims to join NBCUniversal’s enduring slate of crime dramas with a conspiracy thriller starring Holliday Grainger, Callum Turner, Ron Perlman, and more. Former soldier Shaun Emery must fight for his freedom after newly surfaced, damning footage indicates his involvement in a woman’s disappearance. While his chance of acquittal look bleak, Detective Rachel Carey “quickly learns that the truth can sometimes be a matter of perspective.”