Crystal Lake is not streaming yet. Peacock will release all eight episodes in the United States on October 15, 2026. As of October 11, Peacock limits its service to the United States and certain U.S. territories, so viewers elsewhere should check an authorized local distributor rather than assume the same release.
The Friday the 13th prequel centers on Pam Voorhees, a single mother still grieving almost a year after her young son Jason drowned in the town lake. When two strangers arrive asking about her past, their questions set off a disturbing chain of events across Crystal Lake. Linda Cardellini leads the cast with William Catlett, Devin Kessler, Cameron Scoggins and Gwendolyn Sundstrom. Brad Caleb Kane created, wrote and executive-produced the series; Michael Lennox, Celine Held, Logan George and Quyen Tran directed its eight episodes.
Rick Steves' Europe TV show encourages Americans to discover not only major cities, but also cozy villages away from popular tourist routes of Europe. Rick Steves is your perfect travel partner, guiding you through his favorite European cities, villages and off-the-beaten-path destinations.
Only the coolest, best-wired people can connect with infoMania, because it airs on Current TV. Only a handful of service providers include the cutting-edge interactive multi-platform network among their programming options, and Current TV is available in just a few major markets. Sad, because Current TV gives its viewers"”"fit audience though few," as Milton wrote--a promising, privileged glimpse of what YouTube might become if only it had professional content producers and quality standards. Current TV takes irreverent cable programming to the next level, adding more wit, intelligence, sophistication, and vulgarity. In its early days, infoMania aired as "Google Current," 3-5 minute vignettes at the top of each broadcast hour. Now a weekly half-hour collection of "news" stories, viral videos, and commentary, infoMania scathingly satirizes the substance and self-importance of cable news networks. If the show seems to bear uncanny resemblance to The Daily Show, credit its creative DNA: Madeleine Smithberg, co-creator of The Daily Show, served as the show's first executive producer. infoMania devotees have complained that the network does not offer entire episodes on its website; but, working a market strategy designed to maximize audiences for the regularly scheduled broadcast, Current TV has maintained its policy of showing only individual clips from each infoMania episode.
Science fiction may bewitch, intrigue or beguile, but real science compels. "Nova" is the living proof. Aired in more than 100 countries, PBS "Nova" is the world's most watched documentary program and its most highly decorated, Humankind has yet to develop a television award "Nova" has not won"¦repeatedly. And for good reason: On "Nova," real scientists realistically discuss real areas of scientific investigation where real researchers are making significant discoveries. Now more than twenty years old, Nova's "The Miracle of Life" remains the most accurate and sensitive representation of the human reproductive process ever produced. Similarly, Nova's "Spy Machines" si generally regarded as the best-ever concise summary of "the Cold War" and the American-Soviet arms race. "Nova" reporters and photographers regularly take curiosity and cameras into places other brave correspondents would not even think about venturing, and they come back with breathtaking footage and groundbreaking reportage. Although American Public Broadcasting is tragically embroiled in a nasty political wrangle, critics and fans cling to their faith that "Nova" somehow can rise above the fray and continue its unrivalled work.
SpongeBob SquarePants is Nickelodeon’s animated comedy about a relentlessly optimistic sea sponge who lives in a pineapple in Bikini Bottom. SpongeBob works as a fry cook at the Krusty Krab, practices for a boating license he never seems to earn, and turns ordinary errands into surreal adventures with his best friend Patrick Star. His enthusiasm regularly tests the patience of neighbor and co-worker Squidward Tentacles, while Sandy Cheeks, Mr. Krabs, Plankton and pet snail Gary give the undersea town its recurring comic relationships. Episodes are usually self-contained and mix slapstick, wordplay, music and visual absurdity, allowing viewers to begin almost anywhere. Creator Stephen Hillenburg drew on his background in marine science and animation to build a world that can entertain children while leaving room for jokes aimed at adults. Tom Kenny voices SpongeBob. This page covers the original television series, not its films, Kamp Koral or The Patrick Star Show.
Where to watch (checked October 7, 2026): Paramount+ lists seasons 1–15 with an explicit regional-availability notice, while Nickelodeon remains the home of new episodes. Streaming catalogs can receive later seasons on a different timetable from their broadcast, so check the local Paramount+ and Nickelodeon listings.
Official sources: Paramount+ series page; Paramount Global production record.
Follow along with the lives of several aspiring soon to be medical professionals who must endure the fast paced, physically demanding world of medical training. Medical interns have always been expected to complete this "trial by fire" method of learning and though the "burn out" rate is low many find it the most difficult time of their lives. Scrubs deals with the trying times of interns through much humor and a fast paced script each week. The actors are encouraged to improvise with their character's dialog in each episode, making the show interesting and always including something unexpected. Among the cast are Sarah Chalke (Rosanne, How I Met Your Mother) as Dr. Elliot Reed, Zach Braff (Manhattan Murder Mystery, Twelfth Night) as Dr. John Dorian, Donald Faison (Clueless, Remember the Titans) as Dr. Chris Turk, and Neil Flynn (The Middle, Re-animated) portrays the janitor who torments Dr. Dorian in what was supposed to be a one episode appearance but grew into a permanent character role. Scrubs shows the humor inside the manic determination that is part of becoming a doctor and this fast paced show always offers something different and fun to watch.
It was good while it lasted. Launched with much fanfare and intense audience interest, "FlashForward" brilliantly recreated the mysterious, fascinating, are-they-prophetic? two minutes and seventeen seconds on October 6, 2009, when almost everyone on Earth lost consciousness of their ordinary surroundings and caught glimpses of their lives on April 29, 2010. An ambitious attempt at transposing Robert J. Sawyer's "high-concept" novel from the printed page to the small screen, "FlashForward" focused on the team of FBI investigators charged with determining what had happened. One of the FBI agents enjoyed the special privilege of seeing his team crack the case in his vision of the future; all he has to do is recreate the six months of investigative work that yield the break-through. Meanwhile, the principal characters attempt to cope with the consequences of their visions for their lives in the present, because they have seen broken marriages, lives lost, and great portrayals on their horizons. Most viewers and critics sadly agreed "FlashForward" unfortunately juxtaposed a brilliant high-tech crime drama on some pathetically ordinary people and lives.
A spin-off from Fox's monster hit "Family Guy," "The Cleveland Show" easily could inspire serious questions about whether or not three middle-aged white men ought to attempt writing comedy about African-Americans. Somehow, though, Seth MacFarlane, Mike Henry, and Richard Appel have attracted a devoted multi-racial, multi-cultural audience for Cleveland and his family by making their points gently and with genuine humor. Consistent with his approach to "Family Guy," MacFarlane reserves most of his animus for middle-aged white suburban guys a lot like himself. Cleveland and his family have moved back to his home town, Stoolbend, Virginia, where he lives with Junior, his high school crush, and her two children. The majority of Cleveland's funniest lines derive more from his cluelessness than his color, and the majority of the ethnic humor derives from the creators' brilliant satire of racial attitudes among unenlightened southern white people. Among MacFarlane's only-slightly-exaggerated redneck characters, Lester does the majority of the comic work, languishing on his Confederate flag folding chair and cleaning his beloved guns. In general, the racial humor remains tame if not always politically correct, and "The Cleveland Show" gets the vast majority of its big laughs from allusions to pop culture.
Saturday Night Live (or SNL) is an evening of music-comedy series on the NBC channel. SNL show is one of the most popular and long-playing in the history of U.S. television. The premiere of the SNL show is dating back in 1975 when the program was conceived by Dick Ebersol and Lorna Maykolsom. The first music director of the orchestra program was the composer Howard Shore. The format of the SNL consists of a humorous musical reprises, most of them played live by comedy actors - members of the permanent cast, with the participation of a guest host (popular celebrities) and some musical guest or quests. Typically, the series begins with a reprise in the last seconds of which one of the actors out of the way, proclaiming "Live from New York, it's - Saturday Night!" followed by a brand video and then played introductory monologue-patter with a guest presenter. Among the participants were well-known actors such as Martin Short, Bill Murray, James Belushi, Jim Carrey, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Hugh Laurie, Taylor Lautner, Mike Myers and others. Famous musicians are also participated: Britney Spears, Tupac Shakur, Sting, Jennifer Lopez and Rolling Stones. There were such the politicians as John McCain and Rudolph Giuliani. Over the years, SNL show has become an integral part of the cultural landscape of the United States and Canada. Widely known for exceptionally successful parody of the Presidents of the USA by Dan Aykroyd (Lyndon Johnson and Jimmy Carter), Dane Carvey (George Bush, Senior.) Derrillom Hammond (Bill Clinton), Will Ferrell (George Bush, Jr.) and Fred Armisenom (Barack Obama). During the election campaign in 2008 parody of Tina Fey spoofed the candidate for vice-president Sarah Palin, with whom Fey has a striking resemblance. Considered by many this was one of the factors affecting the elections' outcome.
In its first review of "Dexter TV show", the New York Times summarized, "[Dexter Morgan] kills people and cuts them up. But they deserve it. Besides, he's neat." When a serial killer leaves a trail of tidy corpses in service of justice, audiences cannot get enough; he liberates everybody's inner vigilante. Dexter, played pitch-perfect and spot-on by television veteran Michael C. Hall (late of "Six Feet Under"), is a smart and smart-mouthed, self-aware crime scene investigator who moonlights as a blood-thirsty avenger. Dexter is your average psychopath-next-door, comparable with Macbeth or Hannibal Lecter, but with charm and good jokes. As critics and viewers have stressed since the show's very first episode, Dexter kills only people who deserve to die"”depraved pedophiles, drunk drivers with neither conscience nor remorse, and other reprehensible characters who slip through the cracks in the justice system. The show's producers John Goldwyn and Sara Colleton assert, "Dexter becomes a metaphor for people closeted by their secrets." They exaggerate their character's allegorical powers"¦but only a little.
One of two intense medical dramas NBC introduced in the fall of 2009, "Mercy" had all the advantages its one-named rival "Trauma" did not. First, it had talent behind the scenes. Liz Heldens from "Friday Night Lights" created the show and led the writers, proving once again that the best way to dramatize the real world is to show it realistically"”ugliness and all. Second, it had attitude and guts to stay true to its revolutionary premise, the well-informed notion "that nurses remain [not only] more generous caregivers, but that they are more intuitively apt, smarter, more committed and as technically able as their [physician] superiors, with none of the accompanying arrogance." In a winner-take-all ER smackdown, you always would go all-in with the Mercy Hospital nurses. The main character, nurse Veronica Flanagan Callahan, has just returned from a tour in Iraq, where she clearly learned more in each day than the pompous, presumptuous doctors learned in all five years of medical school. Of course, Veronica gets neither the respect nor the reward she deserves, but "Mercy" dangles the possibility of true love as just recompense for Veronica's skill and compassion. Taylor Schilling plays Veronica with exactly the right balance of toughness and vulnerability, skillfully juxtaposing her consummate skill as a nurse with her intrepid ingenuousness in matters of the heart. If only "Mercy" had survived into a second season, all the tangled threads in the story might have come to their proper denouement. If only.