Watch NBC TV Shows Online for Free
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If you've been miissed the latest episode of your favorite shows, such as returning favorites Friday Night Lights and Heroes, you now can catch up with them on NBC's website. And if you're trying to decide whether to board the bandwagon for Bionic Woman or Chuck, you can catch a few eps online before making that tv commitment.
NBC posts their episodes online by 5 a.m. the morning after the episode airs on broadcast tv. Half-hour shows are broken up into three segments and hour-long shows are broken up into six segments. A commercial airs between each segment and it isn't necessary to click the next segment once one ends as the next one will start automatically.
While breaking the shows up into segments does create a few lengthy pauses while the script swaps between them, it does make it convenient to watch a show in bite-size pieces, something difficult to do on the other broadcast company's websites. Most of them have a pause feature so you can take a quick break while watching video, but if you need to close your browser at any point it isn't easy to pick up again where you left off. So I think the way NBC has set up their system is beneficial to the casual viewer.
Episodes can be watched in either half-screen or full-screen mode. Their full-screen mode isn't as crisp as FOX (the best) or ABC, but I do think it is better than what CBS has to offer. Generally though I stick to half-screen mode when watching NBC TV Shows online because I prefer a better picture to a larger one.
New NBC Shows Online
NBC has several new shows for the 2007/2008 TV season and you can watch them at NBC's website. This season we have Bionic Woman and Journeyman for the sf genre fans. There's also Chuck and Life (which I've been enjoying a lot!)
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Returning Favorites
- 30 Rock
The half hour comedy starring Tina Fey and Alec Baldwin. The five most recent episodes are online. - Friday Night Lights
NBC's Friday Night Lights may struggle in the ratings, but someone at NBC must love it or loves its audience becasuse all episodes aired to date are streaming online at NBC. That's right, season 1 as well. - Heroes
NBC's hit, Heroes, returns for a second season with new characters, new powers. Plus all of our favorites from season 1. Watch season 2 eps online. - My Name is Earl
Half-hour comedy starring Jason Lee. The four most recent episodes are online.
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Yep! I love Ugly Betty. I caught a couple of episodes when they ran a mini-marathon and thanks to ABC I can keep up with the episodes I missed online.
I'm in Canada, and the video mode keeps saying that it cannot be watched from my location :(
I'm in Brazil cannot be watched from my location... I NEED TO WATCH NBC NOW.............
livelonger Level 6 Commenter 5 years ago
I love it. I heard you can watch "Ugly Betty" online now too, via ABC's site.