Netflix & NBC Universal Announce Streaming Partnership

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A recently announced partnership means more content for current Netflix subscribers. The deal is with NBC Universal is described as being “multi-year” and will include television shows and series from NBC as well as their cable networks including USA and Syfy.

Of course, this is good news for current Netflix subscribers, but is should also be nice when that streaming-only plan comes to those in the US. Personally I could not be happier, granted I am also the one who once bought and sold a Roku player because of the lack of available streaming content from Netflix.

In terms of the agreement, the new content will come available next week and include individual episodes as well as complete series. And on top of that, the series release will be fairly recent. Well, as recent as you can consider the previous season.

As for the content;

• Episodes from every season of NBC’s signature comedy franchise “Saturday Night Live,” including day-after broadcast of the upcoming 2010, 2011 and 2012 seasons plus hundreds of episodes from the first 35 years of “SNL.”
• Every episode from the last season of the multiple Emmy® Award-winning series “30 Rock,” “The Office” and “Law & Order: SVU,” as well as earlier seasons of those shows renewed for streaming from Netflix under the current deal.
• All prior seasons – and eventually next year’s final season – of “Friday Night Lights,” the small-town drama surrounding high-school football in Dillon, Tex.
• All prior seasons of USA Network hits “Psych,” the comedy featuring James Roday as a fake psychic who solves crimes with his best friend, Dule Hill; the drama “In Plain Sight,” starring Mary McCormack as a U.S. Marshal in New Mexico; as well as all seasons of ”Monk,” starring Emmy® Award and Golden Globe® Award winner Tony Shalhoub in the title role.  Prior seasons of all three shows are available to watch instantly at Netflix for the first time.
• More than 75 prior season episodes of Syfy’s mainstay “Battlestar Galactica,” as well as prior seasons of the network’s popular series’ “Destination Truth” and “Eureka” – all streaming from Netflix for the first time.

This also means that the available iOS apps and the recently updated Roku players (as well as the numerous other Netflix-capable devices) will begin seeing that much more use. Lastly, at least for now the lowest priced Netflix plan here in the US, which includes unlimited streaming comes at $8.99 per month.