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Peacock has quietly become one of the most useful streaming services in the U.S. It may not have the prestige-TV cachet of HBO Max or the sheer volume of Netflix, but Peacock has something a lot of its competitors would very much like to have: a ridiculous amount of live programming.Over the past year, Peacock has been the place to watch the Winter Olympics, the Super Bowl and, thanks to Telemundo, Spanish-language broadcasts of the 2026 World Cup. It also carries NFL, NBA, WNBA and MLB games, as well as the Premier League. And then there's the regular TV fare: "The Office," "Yellowstone," Bravo's reality-TV universe and Universal movies like "Wicked: For Good" and "Disclosure Day."Tom's Guide's streaming team is constantly watching the latest movies and TV shows. That means we're also constantly using and evaluating the streaming services those movies and shows live on. To make it easier to figure out which services are actually worth your money, we've put together report cards for the biggest streaming services in the U.S., grading each across the categories that matter most: price, library, originals, interface and live content.So, with that in mind, let's see how Peacock stacks up — and whether its unusually strong live-TV lineup is enough to make it one of the best streaming services of the past year.
