Black Friday Offer Alert

There are similar offers for two streaming services which I wanted to mention in case they're to anyone's attention here.

Both Hulu and Peacock TV are having Black Friday sales on their websites.  The offers are for $1.99 a month for 12 months.  (You can cancel at any time -- though for $1.99 a month, it's almost worth keeping it in case they end up having a movie or series later on that interests you.)  Peacock TV has an additional offer -- $19.99 if you sign up for the full year.  That's two months free, or the equivalent of $1.67 a month.

The one caveat is that these Black Friday offers are all for the ad-supported services.  

I'll mention that I signed up for this same Hulu offer last year (I'm not eligible for it this year...), and was fine with the ad-supported plan.  They only have a few ad breaks for each show and tend to be about 90 seconds to two minutes.  Never longer, sometimes less.  And they have a little clock counting down the time left in the ads, which I love.  I keep a book by my chair and read during the break, knowing how much time I have -- or run some "errand" in another room.)  For $1.99, I found it well-worth it.  If I watched Hulu a lot, I don't know if I'd have gotten the ad-supported plan.  But because I don't watch Hulu a lot, that's why I tried it out this way.  (And it turned out that I found more things that I watched than I expected it.)

And that's why I never paid for Peacock TV before.  They didn't have much that interested me.  But there are about 4-5 movies I have on my "Peacock List" that I do want to see, and was going to sign up for a month to watch them all.  However, that would cost $12 for a no-ads plan.  So, for just eight dollars more, I'm getting it for the whole year, during which time they might have some more movies I want to see, or series.  Plus they carry Big Ten sports (like my beloved Northwestern...), which includes things not on my standard Big Ten cable channel.

Anyway, that's the deal.  Do with it what you will...