What to Watch on Peacock 2026
Top Peacock picks: Bridesmaids, Da Vinci's Demons and War & Peace—see ratings, key cast and where to stream comedies, dramas and period epics.
If you're searching for what to watch on peacock, this curated guide points you straight to great picks across comedy, drama and history. Start with Bridesmaids for crowd-pleasing laughs and a sharp ensemble performance that still holds up. For tense, character-driven television, try Prey (2016), and if sweeping period storytelling is your thing, War & Peace (2016) delivers epic scope and meticulous detail. I cover binge-ready series and standalone films alike, highlighting critical favorites, cult discoveries and the reasons each selection stands out so you can pick the right mood tonight.
Table of Contents
- Bridesmaids
- Prey
- War & Peace
- Da Vinci's Demons
- The Carol Burnett Show
- In Plain Sight
- Dark Shadows
- Prime Suspect 3
- Continuum
- Rio
- The Avengers
- Holes
- Blackadder
- Wives with Knives
- The Sum of All Fears
- Night of the Living Dead
- Drag Heals
- I, Robot
- Wild West Chronicles
- Blackstone
1. Bridesmaids
Year: 2011 | Rating: 6.8/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: comedy
Annie's life is a mess. But when she finds out her lifetime best friend is engaged, she simply must serve as Lillian's maid of honor. Though lovelorn and broke, Annie bluffs her way through the expensive and bizarre rituals. With one chance to get it perfect, she’ll show Lillian and her bridesmaids just how far you’ll go for someone you love.
Available on: Starz, Peacock Premium
Directed by: Paul Feig
Cast: Kristen Wiig, Terry Crews, Maya Rudolph, Tom Yi, Elaine Kao
2. Prey
Year: 2016 | Rating: 7.2/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: drama
Three-part crime thriller. When detective Marcus Farrow looks into a seemingly forgotten case, he has no idea of the chaos and heartache that will soon follow. He is found at the scene of a murder, and with all the evidence pointing towards him, he is arrested and charged.
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Freevee
Directed by: Anthony Cuffie
Cast: Jada La'Rue, Chevonne Wilson, Joe Piazza, Marcus Woods, Mike T. Tremblay
3. War & Peace
Year: 2016 | Rating: 8.1/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: drama, history, romance, war
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's invading army.
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Freevee
Directed by: Tom Harper
Cast: Paul Dano, James Norton, Lily James, Adrian Edmondson, Aisling Loftus
4. Da Vinci's Demons
Year: 2013 | Rating: 7.9/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: adventure, biography, drama, fantasy, history, mystery, romance
The series follows the "untold" story of Leonardo Da Vinci: the genius during his early years in Renaissance Florence. As a 25-year old artist, inventor, swordsman, lover, dreamer and idealist, he struggles to live within the confines of his own reality and time as he begins to not only see the future, but invent it.
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Starz, Peacock Premium, Freevee
Directed by: Peter Hoar, MJ Bassett, David S. Goyer, Jamie Payne, Paul Wilmshurst
Cast: Tom Riley, Gregg Chilingirian, Eros V, Laura Haddock, Blake Ritson
5. The Carol Burnett Show
Year: 1967 | Rating: 8.7/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: comedy, family
The Carol Burnett Show is an American variety/sketch comedy television show starring Carol Burnett, Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, Lyle Waggoner, and Tim Conway. It originally ran on CBS from September 11, 1967, to March 29, 1978, for 278 episodes and originated from CBS Television City's Studio 33. The series won 25 prime time Emmy Awards, was ranked No. 16 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time in 2002 and in 2007 was listed as one of Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All Time."
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Freevee
Directed by: Dave Powers, Clark Jones
Cast: Vicki Lawrence, The Ernie Flatt Dancers, Harvey Korman, Lyle Waggoner, Don Crichton
6. In Plain Sight
Year: 2018 | Rating: 7.2/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: documentary, crime
Disturbing cases featuring culprits who hide in plain sight, giving interviews, posting on social media and showing their faces while having blood on their hands the whole time.
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Peacock Premium, Freevee
Directed by: Chris Soule, Cameron Patterson, Oscar Fenoglio, Caelum Vatnsdal, François Balcaen
Cast: Ashley Rebecca Moore, George Rempel, William Whyte, Tyanne McNicoll, Dustin Kuschnereit
7. Dark Shadows
Year: 1966 | Rating: 8.1/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: drama, fantasy, horror, mystery, romance, sci-fi, thriller
Dark Shadows is an American gothic soap opera that originally aired weekdays on the ABC television network, from June 27, 1966, to April 2, 1971. The show was created by Dan Curtis. The story bible, which was written by Art Wallace, does not mention any supernatural elements. It was unprecedented in daytime television when ghosts were introduced about six months after it began.
The series became hugely popular when vampire Barnabas Collins appeared a year into its run. Dark Shadows also featured werewolves, zombies, man-made monsters, witches, warlocks, time travel, and a parallel universe. A small company of actors each played many roles; indeed, as actors came and went, some characters were played by more than one actor. Major writers besides Art Wallace included Malcolm Marmorstein, Sam Hall, Gordon Russell, and Violet Welles.
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Freevee
Directed by: Lela Swift, Henry Kaplan, John Sedwick, Sean Dhu Sullivan, Dan Curtis
Cast: Jonathan Frid, Grayson Hall, Alexandra Isles, Nancy Barrett, Joan Bennett
8. Prime Suspect 3
Year: 1993 | Rating: 8.1/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: crime, drama, mystery
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Freevee
Directed by: David Drury
Cast: Helen Mirren, Tom Bell, Karen Tomlin, David Thewlis, Peter Capaldi
9. Continuum
Year: 2012 | Rating: 7.6/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: action, sci-fi, thriller
The series centers on the conflict between a group of rebels from the year 2077 who time-travel to Vancouver, BC, in 2012, and a police officer who accidentally accompanies them. In spite of being many years early, the rebel group decides to continue its violent campaign to stop corporations of the future from replacing governments, while the police officer endeavours to stop them without revealing to anyone that she and the rebels are from the future.
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Freevee
Directed by: Pat Williams, David Frazee, William Waring, Mike Rohl, Amanda Tapping
Cast: Rachel Nichols, Victor Webster, Erik Knudsen, Stephen Lobo, Omari Newton
10. Rio
Year: 2011 | Rating: 6.9/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: animation, adventure, comedy, family, music, romance
Captured by smugglers when he was just a hatchling, a macaw named Blu never learned to fly and lives a happily domesticated life in Minnesota with his human friend, Linda. Blu is thought to be the last of his kind, but when word comes that Jewel, a lone female, lives in Rio de Janeiro, Blu and Linda go to meet her. Animal smugglers kidnap Blu and Jewel, but the pair soon escape and begin a perilous adventure back to freedom -- and Linda.
Available on: Hulu, Peacock Premium, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Carlos Saldanha
Cast: Karen Disher, Jason Fricchione, Sofia Scarpa Saldanha, Leslie Mann, Kelly Keaton
11. The Avengers
Year: 1961 | Rating: 8.3/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: action, comedy, crime, drama, mystery, romance, sci-fi, thriller
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium, Freevee
Directed by: Don Leaver, Peter Hammond, Kim Mills, Roy Ward Baker, James Hill
Cast: Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Honor Blackman, Linda Thorson, Ian Hendry
12. Holes
Year: 2003 | Rating: 7/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: adventure, comedy, drama, family, mystery
After being wrongfully convicted for stealing a pair of shoes, Stanley Yelnats is sent away to Camp Green Lake, a boys detention facility where inmates are forced to dig holes all day in the hot desert sun as a form of character building. But Stanley and the other boys start to unravel a mystery, linked with the camps tough-as-nails warden —and possibly Stanley’s family itself.
Available on: Hulu, Peacock Premium
Directed by: Andrew Davis
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Jon Voight, Tim Blake Nelson, Shia LaBeouf, Khleo Thomas
13. Blackadder
Year: 1982 | Rating: 8/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: comedy
Black Adder traces the deeply cynical and self-serving lineage of various Edmund Blackadders throughout British history, from the muck of the Middle Ages to the frontline of the First World War.
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium
Directed by: Martin Shardlow, Geoff Posner
Cast: Rowan Atkinson, Elspet Gray, Tim McInnerny, Brian Blessed, Tony Robinson
14. Wives with Knives
Year: 2012 | Rating: 6.5/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: documentary, crime, drama
Criminal Behavior Analyst, Casey Jordan, interviews women who have been accused and/or charged with stabbing their spouses or boyfriends. The viewer sees an interview with the accused women and a reenactment of the alleged history of the relationship.
Available on: Hulu, Peacock Premium
15. The Sum of All Fears
Year: 2002 | Rating: 6.5/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: action, drama, thriller, war
When the president of Russia suddenly dies, a man whose politics are virtually unknown succeeds him. The change in political leaders sparks paranoia among American CIA officials, so CIA director Bill Cabot recruits a young analyst to supply insight and advice on the situation. Then the unthinkable happens: a nuclear bomb explodes in a U.S. city, and America is quick to blame the Russians.
Available on: Starz, Peacock Premium, Paramount Plus
Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Cast: Ian Mongrain, Russell Bobbitt, James Cromwell, Ken Jenkins, Bruce McGill
16. Night of the Living Dead
Year: 1968 | Rating: 7.8/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: horror, thriller
A ragtag group barricade themselves in an old Pennsylvania farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls ravaging the Northeast.
Available on: Starz, Peacock Premium, Freevee, Max
Directed by: George A. Romero
Cast: Duane Jones, Judith O'Dea, Karl Hardman, Marilyn Eastman, Keith Wayne
17. Drag Heals
Year: 2018 | Rating: 7.2/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: documentary
Drag Heals is a documentary TV series that follows drag artists building their own stage show. Drag Heals examines soul-deep story sharing techniques as well as the unique talents and skills required from a drag performer.
Available on: Amazon Prime Video, Peacock Premium
Directed by: Charlie David, Nickolaos Stagias, Spencer Glassman
Cast: Daniel F.K. Fernandes, Miles Carney, Karen Suzuki, Elizabeth Holliday, Brian Cope
18. I, Robot
Year: 2004 | Rating: 7.1/10 | Type: Movie
Genres: action, mystery, sci-fi, thriller
In 2035, where robots are commonplace and abide by the three laws of robotics, a technophobic cop investigates an apparent suicide. Suspecting that a robot may be responsible for the death, his investigation leads him to believe that humanity may be in danger.
Available on: Hulu, Peacock Premium
Directed by: Alex Proyas
Cast: Will Smith, Bridget Moynahan, Alan Tudyk, James Cromwell, Bruce Greenwood
19. Wild West Chronicles
Year: 2020 | Rating: 7.4/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: history, western, action & adventure, drama
Once a feared lawman, the legendary Bat Masterson trades his sheriff's badge for a pen and becomes a newspaper reporter. He now travels the frontier to chronicle the amazing true stories of the Wild West and bring them to life once more.
Available on: Peacock Premium, Freevee
20. Blackstone
Year: 2009 | Rating: 7.4/10 | Type: TV Series
Genres: drama
The lives of Indians on the Blackstone Indian reserve, told from an Aboriginal point of view.
Available on: Peacock Premium, Freevee
Directed by: Ron E. Scott
Cast: Carmen Moore, Eric Schweig, Michelle Thrush, Steven Cree Molison, Trevor Duplessis
Wrapping Up
This mix brings together proven hits, underrated finds and something for every taste — from laugh-out-loud comedies to tense procedural drama and lavish historical adaptations. Expect well-reviewed performances, notable casts and a balance of fresh arrivals with reliable classics across the listed genres. Save this page as a quick reference; the selections are refreshed regularly so newly added titles and rotating exclusives appear often. Check back whenever you need a recommendation and you’ll consistently find current options that match date nights, solo binges or background viewing.
Last updated: July 26, 2026