Notre Dame, Peacock to premiere 'Here Come the Irish' docuseries

Notre Dame and Peacock are gearing up to premiere a “Hard Knocks“-style docuseries later this month. “Here Come the Irish” will premiere Aug. 29.

The series is part of the newly extended media rights contract between Notre Dame and NBC, which goes into effect this season. The two-part premiere of “Here Come the Irish” will be the first of seven episodes to drop throughout the season and will include multiple notable interviews, including Marcus Freeman, Lou Holtz, Riley Leonard, Benjamin Morrison and other Notre Dame players and staffers.

Episodes 3 and 4 will come out Dec. 5, followed by Episodes 5 and 6 on Dec. 19, Peacock announced. The final part of the show will drop on Jan. 16, 2025.

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Notre Dame and NBC announced the extension of their landmark partnership in November 2023. The deal will now run through the 2029 season, and in addition to the “Here Come the Irish” series, Peacock will exclusively air one Fighting Irish football game each season. Every other Notre Dame on NBC game will stream on the app, as well.

“We are thrilled to continue our historic collaboration with our partners at NBC Sports,” former Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick said in a statement. “In the next generation of this partnership, we will collaborate to provide our fans even more Notre Dame content through a variety of NBCUniversal’s distribution channels while continuing to put our student-athletes and their stories at the heart of our messaging.”

Swarbrick resigned after the 2022-23 school year, and Pete Bevacqua is now in as his successor as Notre Dame athletics director. On the football field, though, the Fighting Irish have plenty of new faces. Of course, Leonard is the headliner, along with new coordinator Mike Denbrock – who returns to South Bend to transform an offense that struggled mightily in 2023.

But the partnership with NBC is still an important part of Notre Dame’s plan to stay independent. With the extension in place and the docuseries coming, there will be more stories for the network to tell, as well.

“There is no better tradition than Notre Dame Football in South Bend, and we are thrilled to keep that tradition within the NBC Sports family as we extend our relationship as the exclusive home of Fighting Irish home games through the end of the decade,” said Rick Cordella, President of NBC Sports, in a statement. “With enhanced rights that allow us to present Notre Dame Football on NBC as well as across Peacock and additional platforms, we look forward to bringing the Fighting Irish to fans in more ways than ever before.”