How to watch the 30 Rock reunion special: Peacock times, channels and details

Liz Lemon is back, you guys. While the coronavirus pandemic has halted most of the new television production, many of the old favorites like Parks and Recreation and Community They have returned for quarantine meetings, primarily filmed through Zoom. A trailer for Thursday 30 Rock: a one-time specialIt does, however, make the new hour-long episode look like the most professional-quality gathering to date, with Tina Fey, Tracy Jordan, Jack McBrayer, Jane Krakowski, and Alec Baldwin, all filmed with what looks like cameras and lighting gear. real. (And there’s still a little bit of video chat, just in case.)

But it wouldn’t be 30 rocks without any last minute network crisis. On Tuesday, Vulture learned that several of the largest television station groups would not be broadcasting for an hour. 30 rocks special meeting, to be broadcast at 8 pm. Vulture sources shared that the groups felt the meeting “is too much of a promotion for the company’s new Peacock streaming platform,” which is home to 30 rocks archive. The networks would prefer that the public remain stuck to the nightly offers that are broadcast on real television.

While this is bad news for 30 rocks Fans in the television markets served by Gray Television, Hearst, Nexstar, Tegna or Sinclair Broadcast Group are not entirely unfortunate. Next, we break down how to see the 30 rocks meeting regardless of the state of your TV.

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Not everyone who expects to see the TGS gang gathering on its original schedule is no luck. NBCUniversal owns many NBC stations, especially in major distribution areas such as New York, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Check your local listings to see if your NBC station is broadcasting 30 Rock: a one-time special.

For those in those areas, the special will air at 8 p.m. M. / 7 p. M. CT and will run for a full hour without traditional commercial breaks. (The special is part of NBC’s virtual kickoff, an annual event for television networks to showcase their fall season, so we can assume there will be promotions for the upcoming NBC content and, of course, Peacock.)

The meeting will also air Friday on cable.

Cable networks owned by NBCUniversal, USA, SyFy, Bravo, Oxygen, E!, And CNBC will air. 30 Rock: a one-time special at 9 pm on Friday, July 17. 30 rocks Fans with cable packages that include one of those channels can watch it on TV just 25 hours later.

The special will run in Peacock with the other 30 Rock episodes.

Yes, 30 Rock: a one-time special will air on the newly released Peacock beginning Friday morning. The service is free at its base level, which means 30 rocks Fans won’t have to pay for the service (or sign up for a free trial) to watch the meeting.

The special will also air on NBC.com, but notably not on Hulu, where 30 rocks is still broadcasting