STREAMING SERVICE LAUNCH: Yes, here comes another one. The deal about Peacock – the financial deal, that is – is that it arrives today in three different tiers. One of them is free, and it offers thousands of hours of old TV and movies, as well as a few new ones. You can download the Peacock app, or get access through the new Peacock website. Then there’s the first pay tier, which offers even more TV and movies – but at a $5 monthly fee. And if you double that fee, paying $10 a month for a Peacock subscription, you get all that without any intrusive advertising. (Which means without any advertising whatsoever.) The inventory on Peacock includes Frasier and Friday Night Lights, two absolutely excellent TV shows – and while the new offerings are a mixed bag (Brave New World is more entertaining for its live-action Jetsons sets and costumes than for its updated approach to the 1932 Aldous Huxley novel), there are two new shows worth watching. They’re detailed below. For more information on Peacock, see Mike Hughes' Open Mike. And for a full review of Brave New World, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.

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