Crystal Lake Premier Date Is Set For This Fall On Peacock!

 After a long time in development, Peacock has finally announced a release date for Crystal Lake, the highly-anticipated Friday the 13th series.

Crystal Lake will premiere on Thursday, October 15. While releasing on an actual Friday the 13th would've been a great marketing stunt, we've already had two out of the three allotted in 2026, and the next one isn't until November, and we can't imagine Peacock wanting to pass up the chance to get an iconic slasher back on screens in time for Halloween.

International streaming dates will be announced soon.

Crystal Lake is an upcoming American horror television series developed as a prequel to the iconic Friday the 13th film franchise. Produced by A24 and set to stream exclusively on Peacock in the U.S and Sky in the U.K and Ireland, it explores the origins of Jason Voorhees and his mother, Pamela Voorhees, in a doomed small town where camp counselors meet grisly fates. The series blends slasher elements with deeper character backstories, including various iterations of Jason familiar to franchise fans, and is described as an "expanded prequel" set primarily in 1970-1971 at Camp Crystal Lake.