Peacock has confirmed nearly a dozen premiere dates for the remainder of 2022, including Matthew Fox’s Last Light, Julie Plec’s Vampire Academy, and sequels to Pitch Perfect and The Best Man.
Lost vet Fox makes his long-awaited return to the small screen in the above-mentioned Last Night, premiering Thursday, Sept. 8. Based on Alex Scarrow’s international best-selling book of the same name, the five-part limited series “tells the story of a family fighting to survive in a world that has been suddenly thrown into chaos,” according to the official logline. Downton Abbey‘s Joanne Froggatt co-stars.
Richelle Mead’s popular Vampire Academy novels come to life the following week, on Thursday, Sept. 15. Plec and fellow Vampire Diaries grad Marguerite MacIntyre serve as executive producers on the adaptation; Season 1 will consist of 10 hour-long episodes.
Meanwhile, Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin — a six-episode, half-hour comedy series centered on Adam Devine’s Bumper — will arrive on Wednesday, Nov. 23 (aka Thanksgiving Eve). Fellow sequel series The Best Man: The Final Chapters — which picks up after 2013’s The Best Man Holiday and reunites the original film’s stars — is set for release on Thursday, Dec. 22.
Scroll down for a first look at Peacock’s newly announced slate, then hit the comments and tell us what you’ll be watching.
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Everything I Know About Love
Image Credit: Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP; Kristin Callahan/Everett Collection Premiere Date: Thursday, Aug. 25
Description: The central love story of Everything I Know About Love is between childhood best friends Maggie and Birdy. But it is also a raucous girl gang show, set in a 2012 London house-share inhabited by four girls – Maggie, Birdy and their mates from university, Amara and Nell. The series is an unflinching deep dive into bad dates, heartaches and humiliations and begs the question: can platonic love survive romantic love as we grow up?
Cast: Emma Appleton, Bel Powley, Marli Siu, Aliyah Odoffin, Connor Finch, Jordan Peters and Ryan Bown
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Last Light
Image Credit: Courtesy of Peacock Premiere Date: Thursday, Sept. 8
Description: Petro-chemist Andy Yeats knows how dependent the world is on oil; if something were to happen to the world’s oil supply, it would set off a chain reaction: transportation would grind to a halt, supplies would cease to be delivered, law enforcement would be overwhelmed. While on a business trip to the Middle East, Andy realizes that his worst fears are coming true and his family is separated at this crucial moment. His teenage daughter, Laura, is alone at home in London while his wife, Elena, and young son, Sam, are in Paris. Amid this chaos, each family member will sacrifice everything to find one another, despite the distance and the dangers that separate them. Based on Alex Scarrow’s best-selling novel of the same name.
Cast: Matthew Fox, Joanne Froggatt Alyth Ross, Taylor Fay, Amber Rose Revah, Victor Alli, Tom Wlaschiha and Hakeem Jomah
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Vampire Academy
Image Credit: Courtesy of Peacock Premiere Date: Thursday, Sept. 15
Description: From executive producers Julie Plec and Marguerite MacIntyre comes a story of friendship, romance and danger. In a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter vampire society. One as a powerful Royal, the other a half-vampire Guardian trained to protect against the savage “Strigoi” who threaten to tear their society apart. That is, if Royal infighting doesn’t do the job first.
Cast: Sisi Stringer, Daniela Nieves, Kieron Moore, André Dae Kim, J. August Richards, Anita-Joy Uwajeh, Mia Mckenna-Bruce, Rhian Blundell, Jonetta Kaiser and Andrew Liner
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A Friend of the Family
Image Credit: Courtesy of Peacock Premiere Date: Thursday, Oct. 6
Description: A Friend of the Family is based on the harrowing true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter Jan was kidnapped multiple times over a period of years by a charismatic, obsessed family “friend.” The Brobergs — devoted to their faith, family, and community — were utterly unprepared for the sophisticated tactics their neighbor used to exploit their vulnerabilities, drive them apart, and turn their daughter against them. This is the story of how their lives were permanently altered — and how they survived.
Cast: Anna Paquin, Jake Lacy, Colin Hanks, Lio Tipton, Mckenna Grace, Hendrix Yancey, Austin Stowell, Patrick Fischler, Bree Elrod and Philip Ettinger
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One of Us Is Lying Season 2
Image Credit: 'One of Us Is Lying' Season 1 (Courtesy of Peacock) Premiere Date: Thursday, Oct. 20
Description: Following the heart-pounding conclusion of Season 1, the Bayview Four have a very deadly secret. In Season 2, we’ll see just how far they’ll go to protect their secret, themselves, and each other.
Cast: Marianly Tejada, Chibuikem Uche, Annalisa Cochrane, Cooper van Grootel, Jess McLeod, Melissa Collazo, Sara Thompson and Alimi Ballard
The Capture Season 2
Premiere Date: Thursday, Nov. 3
Description: Season 2 of The Capture will again question if we can really believe what we see. Britain is under siege: hacked news feeds, manipulated media, and interference in politics. Entrenched in the UK’s own ‘Correction’ unit, DCI Rachel Carey finds herself in the middle of a new conspiracy – with a new target. But how can she solve this case when she can’t even trust her closest colleagues? Escalating from the CCTV thriller of Season 1, the six-part run features “invisible” assassins, the terrifying rise of deepfake technology, the ever-growing tension between government and Big Tech, and corruption at the heart of the British media.
Cast: Holliday Grainger, Paapa Essiedu, Indira Varma, Andy Nyman, Ron Perlman, Rob Yang, Ben Miles, Lia Williams, Cavan Clerkin, Ginny Holder and Nigel Lindsay
The Missing (working title)
Premiere Date: Thursday, Nov. 10
Description: From showrunner David E. Kelley, The Missing tells the story of NYPD Detective Avraham Avraham, whose belief in mankind is his superpower when it comes to uncovering the truth. Guided by a deep sense of spirituality and religious principles, Avraham is left to question his own humanity when a seemingly routine investigation turns upside down.
Cast: Jeff Wilbusch, Juliana Canfield, Karen Robinson and Michael Mosley
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Pitch Perfect: Bumper in Berlin
Image Credit: Courtesy of Peacock Premiere Date: November 23
Description: Several years after we last saw him in Pitch Perfect, Adam Devine’s Bumper Allen moves to Germany to revive his music career when one of his songs becomes big in Berlin.
Cast: Adam Devine, Flula Borg, Sarah Hyland, Lera Abova and Jameela Jamil
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Irreverent
Image Credit: Photo by Nathan Johnson Premiere Date: Thursday, Nov. 30
Description: A criminal mediator from Chicago is forced to flee his life and everything he knows and hide out in a small Australian reef community in Far North Queensland posing as the new church Reverend. “Reverend Mackenzie Boyd” (not his real name) has made a mess so bad he can never go home, but he’s going to need all his considerable street smarts to pull off posing as clergy – something he doesn’t know the first thing about. If he slips up, he’s dead and, after a lifetime of crime, doing good works is not something that comes naturally. But “Mack” finds himself in a small beach town, with no phone or internet, amongst a community that is filled with people desperate for connection and crying out for leader. What at first seems like a perfect hiding place from the Chicago mob quickly becomes Mack’s home. But as he reluctantly settles into his new life, Chicago commences the hunt. The only way he will be able to stay off their radar will be to maintain the illusion that he is a Reverend. To do that though, Mack will have to appear to care. Trouble for Mack is, after all that pretending, it may just become a little bit real.
Cast: Colin Donnell, PJ Byrne, Kylie Bracknell, Briallen Clarke, Tegan Stimson, Ed Oxenbould, Wayne Blair, Russell Dykstra, Calen Tassone and Jason Wilder
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The Best Man: The Final Chapters
Image Credit: Courtesy of Peacock Premiere Date: Thursday, Dec. 22
Description: Based upon the eponymous Universal film franchise written and directed by Malcolm D. Lee, the series will catch up with Harper, Robyn, Jordan, Lance, Quentin, Shelby, Candace and Murch as relationships evolve and past grievances resurface in the unpredictable stages of midlife crisis meets midlife renaissance.
Cast: Morris Chestnut, Melissa De Sousa, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long and Harold Perrineau
Previously reported Peacock release dates include Days of Our Lives: Beyond Salem Season 2 (Monday, July 11) and The Resort (Thursday, July 28), and UK imports Trigger Point (Friday, July 8) and The Undeclared War (Thursday, Aug. 18).
