The bark may not be worse than the bite in this lawsuit by Smile Direct Club that wants financial payment for damages due to a news story they allege contained “false and misleading” statements.
First the story, then the article, then my take.
NBC News reporting on SmileDirectClub
Viewers and readers across the country turn to the media for the information they need to make decisions about their health and well-being,” the suit by attorney J. Erik Connolly also states. “NBC abused their trust by publishing reports about SDC that were littered with false and misleading statements. NBC’s misconduct not only financially injured SDC, but it also prevented patients from seeking the affordable treatment they need for their orthodontic problems and caused investors to lose millions, if not billions, of dollars
Sorry, I just have to ask: who signs up for a service to get their teeth straightened without their friendly dentist treating him/her/them in person?
If the first video wasn’t enough, check out this one:
Sounds like it’s meant to save money (save up to 60% over braces), so perhaps that’s the answer, but coat hangers can be used for a low cost abortions, too (no, I’m not making seriously making that comparison). The pictures of those molds people need to wear look painful, but maybe they aren’t, since they’re molded to the person’s mouth.
I don’t know how this lawsuit will work out, but it will cost NBC money in attorney’s fees regardless the outcome. That means less to spend on new content for new shows and/or greenlighting existing ones, which is where my primary interest here lies.
What’s Happening At Peacock?
Speaking of Peacock TV. I’ve been kind of quiet about them because, well, they aren’t doing that much new except monthly rotating their movie library. Every streaming service does that.
Peacock are missing some TV series that they own that I’d love to see them add like the complete Las Vegas (2003-2008) seasons. That’s one of my favorite TV shows of the 2000s (also 24!) and starred James Caan, Moll Sims, Josh Duhamel and others. It dealt with the day to day running of the fictional Montecino Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas including cheaters to trying to scam security, whales (large casino customers) being wooed to gamble at the casino, celebrity walk-ons (reminding me of the shows Love Boat and Fantasy Island), interesting and unique locals and more.
Alas, that TV show is owned by NBC Universal and it’s not even available to purchase digitally online as of this writing. This is the kind of TV series that Peacock should have, but doesn’t. Maybe it will be released in the future. Instead, they are letting DVD scalpers sell the complete season on Amazon for hundreds of dollars.
As for the movie library? It’s different than the soft launch A-Z that I wrote up (and is linked at the top of this article) and will likely change again on July 15 when they go into full launch mode for the rest of the web.
Any readers that are using Peacock? What do you like/dislike about this sleeping giant (I suspect they will be the HBO Max release of July)? Or of course if you’d like to comment on the lawsuit mentioned in the beginning of this article, you’re welcome to do so.
If you are one of the millions who use Xfinity internet, but don’t have Flex, it is FREE
So, we need the Xfinity Flex box to get PeacockTV that launches today, April 15. Sigh, another box on another HDMI port on the TV. At least the price is right.
My advance research failed me until the day before when I finally spotted an article that detailed simply being an Xfinity high speed internet customer was not enough.
How to get the box?
Local Xfinity office or snail mail delivery. The local offices are running restricted hours due to the pandemic, so we went when the store opened at 11am to see if they had any more of these magical little Roku-wannabe Flex boxes.
The Flex is indeed a smart venture for Xfinity in today’s streaming world. If one wants to take full advantage of Flex, going all in on Xfinity’s ecosystem is a must. One example is that if you have Xfinity’s Gateway modem/router, the Flex will automatically connect to your internet service, while if you own a third-party brand, that setup will have to be completed manually.
Xfinity has done a — no surprise — horrible job educating their existing customers that this box is there for them free of charge (additional boxes for extra rooms cost $5/month). We’ve been paying over $100/month for years and the last thing I remember them pushing on us — or at least trying to — was home surveillance. Before that it was (gasp!) telephone service. Who needs a telephone service through the cable company?
We stopped by the local Xfinity office at the reduced hours start time (11am). They were in full social distancing mode and were metering people in and out of the building. It took only 10 minutes or so to get in, get the box, and say “no” to live TV for an additional $25/month (no thanks on live TV).
The Xfinity Flex box is thin and small, perhaps a little larger than the palm of your hand
Setup for the Xfinity Flex was very easy. It comes with an HDMI cable and AC power adapter.
Just plug in the power, an HDMI cable turn it on and walk through a very brief setup process (English language, WiFi password) and then voila! the network screen.
Then we’re at the title screen which is laid out very similarly to Netflix and Amazon Prime.
There is Peacock to explore …. or is it?
Spotted the PeacockTV graphic and clicked on it only to find out …
As of 12:45pm PST (GMT-8) on April 15, PeacockTV is not available via Flex … at least in our area
No PeacockTV yet. I’m hooked up and ready to check it out whenever it is available today. Supposed to be available on April 15 for Xfinity Flex customers, but nothing I could locate says when it will appear today … or even if it really will appear today.
12:51pm PST … checked again. Yay! It’s asking for an email address to sign up! We’re in! So it must literally have activated in our area within the last few minutes.
TV SHOWS (A-Z) 1st Look (Travel) 21 Jump Street 30 Rock A Little Late With Lilly Singh A.P Bio Aaron Hernandez Uncovered Airwolf Alfred Hitchcock Hour Alfred Hitchcock Presents Alien News Desk American Greed American Ninja Warrior American Ninja Warrior Junior Baby Einstein Bad Girls Club: Back for More Bad Girls Club: East Meets West Bad Girls Club: Redemption Bad Girls Club: Social Disruption Bad Girls Club: Twisted Sister Battlestar Galactica Battlestar Galactica: The Mini Series Below Deck Below Deck: Mediterranean Bethenny Ever After Bite Club Blindspot Bluff City Law Botched Bring The Funny Buried in the Backyard Care Bears (3 seasons) Care Bears: Adventures in Care-A-Lot Care Bears: Welcome to Care-a-Lot Caso cerrado Cheers Chicago Fire Chicago Med Chicago P.D Chrisley Knows Best Cleopatra in Space Columbo Council of Dads Covert Affairs (5 seasons) Curious George Dahmer on Dahmer: A Serial Killer Speaks Dateline NBC Days of Our Lives Deadly Power Dragons: Defenders of Berk Dragons: Riders of Berk Dying To Belong El baron El Chema Ellen’s Game of Games Escapse to the Chateau Eureka Everybody Loves Raymond Exosquad Face Off Final Appeal Flipping Out (11 seasons) Forensic Files Frasier Friday Night Lights George Lopez George to the Rescue Get Out Of My Room Ghost Hunters International Greatest American Hero Guerra de idolos Hell’s Kitchen Heroes Hollywood Game Night Homicide for the Holidays House Hunter I Love Jenni In Ice Cold Blood Indebted Jay Leno’s Garage Killerpost Kilision Course Kitchen Nightmares Ladies of London Larrymania (8 seasons) Late Night with Seth Meyers Law & Order Law & Order: Criminal Intent Law & Order: Special Victims Unit Leave It To Beaver Lincoln Rhyme: Hunt for the Bone Collector Love Child Making It Manifest Married To Medicine Mi familia perfecta Million Dollar Listing Million Dollar Listing: Los Angelos Million Dollar Listing: New York Monk Murder for Hire Murder, She Wrote Necessary Roughness New Amsterdam Open House NYC Paranormal Witness Parenthood Parks and Recreation Perfect Harmony Perro Amor Poker After Dark Press No. 1 Psych Punky Brewster Rob & Chyna Ryan’s Wdding: Million Dollar … Wedding? Saturday Night Live Savage Dragon Saved by the Bell Saved by the Bell: The College Years Seaquest 2032 Seaquest DSV Shahs of Sunset Sitting Ducks Sliders Snapped Snapped: She Made Me Do It Songland Southern Charm Southern Charm New Orleans Southern Charm Savannah Starveillance Story of Cool Summer House Sunnyside Superstore Swedish Dicks Sweet Home Sweet Home Oklahoma Terrific Trucks The Carol Burnett Show The Case of Caylee Anthony The Commish The Disappearance of Crystal Rogers The Disappearance of Maura Murray The Jeff Foxworthy Show The Jury Speaks The Kelly Clarkson Show The King of Queens The Munsters The New Woody Woodpecker The Profit The Real Housewife’s of Dallas The Rockford Files The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon The Wrong Girl Three Days to Live Top Chef Junior Two and a half Men Un poquito tuyo Unsolved Mysteries Very Cavallari Victoria WAGS LA WAGS: Miami Warehouse 13 Where’s Waldo? Yellowstone Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist
Movies – A-Z 12 Days of Christmas Eve 13/13/13 2-Headed Shark Attack 2012:Ice Age 3 Musketeers 500 MPH Storm A Belle for Christmas A Christmas Wedding Til A Foreign Affair
PeacockTV has the Abbott & Costello Universal monster movies! Yay!
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy Abraham Lincoln vs. Zombies Across The Great Divide AE: Apocalypse Earth Age of Dinosaurs Age of Tomorrow Airplane vs. Volcano Alice in Wonderland Alien Origin All Quiet on the Western Front All That Heaven Allows Almighty Thor Alone for Christmas American Heist American Psycho American Psycho II: All American Girl American Warships Americano An American Girl: Grace Stirs Up Success Android Cop Animal Crackers Apocalypse Pompeil Arabesque Ardennes Fury Asteroid vs. Earth Attila Axis
B
Barbie in Pink Shoes Barney’s Great Adventure Basmati Blues Battle of Los Angeles Battlestar Galactica: The Plan Bean Beau Geste Beau Geste (ed. yes, it’s listed twice) Better Living Through Chemistry Beware the Gonzo Bird on a Wire Blair Witch 2 Blonde Venus Blue Crush Blue Crush 2 Body Bags Border River (1954) Brewster’s Millions Bride of Frankenstein Bright Young Things Broken Flowers Bug Bulletproof
C
Candy Cape Fear Captain Corelli’s Mandolin CarGo Casual Sex? Cat Run Chaos Charade Children of Men Chrismas All Over Again Cimarron Kid Cleopatra (1934) Clockers Coal Miner’s Daughter Collaborator Columbo: Prescription: Murder Conception Crackers Crooklyn
D
Date and Switch Dead Ringers Death of a Gunfighter Death of a Superhero Death Takes a Holiday (1934) Definitely, Maybe Deliver Us From Eva Destry Detachment Do The Right Thing Doctor Detroit Dog Pound Doomsday Down in the Valley Dr. Cyclops Dracula Dracula’s Daughter Duck Soup Dudley Do-Right Dune
E
E.T. The Extra Terrestrrial Eastern Promises Endgame Essential Killing Evan Almighty Everything Must Go
F
Family Plot Fear Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Fear of a Black Hat Fire with Fire Fletch Fletch Lives Flipper For Ellen For Whom the Bell Tolls Frailty Frankenstein Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman Frenzy
G
Gerry Get a Job Girl With a Pearl Earring Golden Winter Gosford Park Grimm’s Snow White Gun for a Coward
H
Held Up Hellboy II: The Golden Army Hercules Reborn Hide Your Smiling Faces Highland Park Hold Back The Dawn Hold Your Breath Holiday Inn Horse Feathers Horsemen House of Dracula House of Frankenstein Howard The Duck Hyena
I
I Know Pronounce You Chuck and Larry I’m Not Rappaport Idlewild Imagining Argentina Imitations of Life Imitations of Life (ed. yes, listed twice) In Good Company It Came From Outer Space
J
Janie Jones Jurassic Park Jurassic Park III
K
Kindergarten Cop 2 King Ralph Lady Godiva Lady on a Train Leap Year Leatherface Leaving Normal Liar Liar Listen Up Phillip Little Miss Marker Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels Lost In Translation Lover Come Back
M
Mad About Mambo Madame Soustazka Maladies Man of a Thousand Faces (1957) Man on the Moon Marnie Maximum Overdrive McHale’s Navy McHale’s Navy Joins The Air Force (1965) Meet Joe Black Meet The Parents Mercury Rising Mercy Metropia Midnight Lace (1960) Missing Mo’ Better Blues Mockingbird Monkey Business Monsoon Wedding Monster High: Boo-York Monster High: Friday Night Frights Monster High: Ghouls Rule Moonrise Kingdom Morocco Mostly Ghostly 2: Have You Met My Ghoulfriend? Mostly Ghostly 3: One Night in Doom House My Favorite Blonde My Little Eye My Man Godfrey
N
Ned Kelly Neds Night Monster (1942) Night Passage One True Thing Operation Dunkirk
P
Palo Alto Parenthood Pillow Talk Pirate Radio Play Misty for Me Poor Boy’s Game Primary Colors Princess and the Pony Psych: The Movie Psycho
R
R.L Stine’s Monsterville: Cabinet of Souls Raggedy Man Ransom for a Dead Man Ray Rear Window Red Flag Red Rock West Reservation Road Reservoir Dogs Road to Singapore Road to Utopia Road to Zanzibar Robin Hood Rope Rumble Fish
S
Saboteur Saved by the Bell: Hawaiian Style Saved by the Bell: Wedding in Las Vegas Saw VI Scarface Schindler’s List Serial Mom Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band Shadow of a Doubt Shanghai Express Shelby Shrek Shrink Silent Running Slaughterhouse Five Sleepaway Camp Sleeping Beauty Sleepless Night Smoke Signals Sneakers Some Velvet Morning Somebody Up There Likes Me Son of Dracula Son of Frankenstein Sparrow’s Dance Starred Up Stella Days Stir of Echoes Street Fighter Strictly Sinatra Struck By Lightning Summer in February Supporting Characters
T
Talk Radio Tammy and the Bachelor Tammy and the Doctor Tammy Tell me True (1961) Texas Across The River Texas Rangers Ride Again The Air I Breathe The Amityville Haunting The Bachelor Weekend The Big Ask The Birds The Black Dahlia The Blair Witch Project The Brides of Dracula The Chalk Garden The Cold Light of Day The Comedy The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover The Creature Walks Among Us The Crush The Curse of the Werewolf The Day of the Jackal (1973) The Debt The Deer Hunter The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation The Eiger Sanction The Evil of Frankenstein The Exorcist III The Four Seasons The Front Page The Ghost of Frankenstein The Giant Mechanical Man The Good Shepherd The Great Imposter The Great Waldo Pepper The Happy Elf The Haunting in Connecticut The Haunting of Whaley House The Ho-Lo Country The High Cost of Living The Hitcher The House of Seven Gables The Incredible Shrinking Man The Incredible Shrinking Woman The Invisible Man The Invisible Woman The Island The Jungle Bunch The King The Lady Eve The Land Before Time XIV: Journey of the Brave The Land Before Time: The Wisdom of Friends The Last Days of Disco The Last House on the Left The Last Rites of Joe May The Last Temptation of Christ The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus The Life of David Gale The Little Engine That Could The Littlest Angel The Lone Ranger (1956) The Lone Ranger and The Lost City of Gold The Lost Worlds: Jurassic Park The Man Who Knew Too Much The Man Who Wasn’t There The Mummy’s Curse The Mummy’s Ghost (1944) The Mummy’s Hand The Mummy’s Tomb The Mummy: Quest for the Last Scrolls The Paper The Phantom of the Opera The Phantom of the Opera (1943) The Pirates Who Don’t Do Anything: A Veggie Tales Movie The Plainsman The Plainsman (twice, yes) The Promise The Proposition The Rare Breed The Redhead from Wyoming The River The Stand at Apache River The Sting The Story of Us The Thrill of It All The Time Being The Triumph The Trotsky The Trouble with Harry The TV Set The Veil The War Wagon The Werewolf of London The Wolfman (1941) The Yellow Mountain To Each His Own Topaz Topsy-Turvy Torn Curtain Tumbleweed
U
Untamed Frontier
W
W. What Dreams May Come What Richard Did White Palace Wild Style Winchester ’73
Y
Yanks You, Me and Dupree Your Friends & Neighbors
What do you see that you would like to watch?
Alfred Hitchcock fans rejoice, lots here on PeacockTV for you. I’m also super excited to see many Universal Monsters classic movies including Abbott & Costello meeting those monsters. There is a good amount of classic movies being offered that you will not find anywhere else streaming at the moment.
What movies and TV shows listed above are you most interested in watching or rewatching?
