All these services primarily offer continuously streaming channels of preprogrammed clips and commentary, but they do have a select few live news and sports commentary feeds.įor streaming services that can replace cable, check out our top picks for the category, YouTube TV and Hulu + Live TV. Peacock, Pluto TV, and Xumo occupy a weird hybrid space. PBS Video is the closest thing to a free live TV service of everything we’ve reviewed here it allows you to watch a live feed of your local PBS station. Maisel, Netflix’s Stranger Things, or Paramount+’s Star Trek: Picard. Just don’t expect the production value or quality storytelling of Amazon Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs. Peacock benefits from NBC-exclusive shows, for example.Ĭrackle is unique among free options in that it produces original series many of Peacock's original shows are not fully available to free users.
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Paid video streaming services, such as HBO Max and Paramount+, use popular current and classic shows to build up their catalogs (often with exclusives), so it makes sense that there aren’t many marquee titles for free services to grab. CW Seed, IMDb TV, Peacock, and PBS Video have the most mainstream shows of this group, however, and you might seriously wonder who watches the programming on these other free services. Anecdotally, many of the free services share the same movies, too.Ĭrackle, CW Seed, IMDb TV, PBS Video, Peacock, Pluto TV, and Tubi all offer on-demand TV shows.
You may be surprised to find that Crackle’s and Tubi’s movie libraries are larger than those of many paid services, but paid services have higher-quality titles. Serious cinephiles should check out dedicated movie streaming services, such as The Criterion Channel or Mubi. Peacock and IMDb TV have the most popular movies of the bunch, while Kanopy and PBS Video distinguish themselves with top-notch documentaries.