‘Las Vegas’ Finally Coming to Streaming, 15 Years After NBC Show’s End
Viva Las Vegas! The 2000s-era NBC drama will soon — for the first time ever — be available for fans to stream.
Las Vegas will join Peacock’s streaming library on Friday, December 29, according to TVLine.
Airing more than 100 episodes between 2003 and 2008, Las Vegas followed an elite surveillance team keeping order at the (fictional) Montecito Resort & Casino, a premier Sin City destination.
The late James Caan starred as Montecito security head Ed Deline, with Josh Duhamel playing his protégé, former U.S. Marine Danny McCoy. Together, Ed and Danny dealt with “card-counting cheaters, costly streaks of random luck, and rival casinos stealing their big-money players,” as NBC explained.
But Ed and Danny’s relationship was also complicated by the former finding the latter in bed with his daughter, Delinda Deline (Molly Sims).
Other Montecito regulars included the high-priced escort Mary Connell (Nikki Cox), the all-knowing valet Mike Cannon (James Lesure), pit boss Nessa Holt (Marsha Thomason), and former competitor Sam Marquez (Vanessa Marcil).
Created by Gary Scott Thompson (The Fast and the Furious), Las Vegas became broadcast TV’s top new drama among adults 18–49 after its debut, despite middling reviews from critics. (The New York Times’s Alessandra Stanley called it “slick, fast-paced and engaging,” while The Baltimore Sun’s David Zurawik deemed it “pretty to look at, but utterly devoid of real dramatic meat on its bones.”)
The show’s five-season run ended in 2008, following a damning move to Friday nights, the departures of Caan, Cox, and Thomason, and the Season 5 addition of Tom Selleckas new Montecito owner A.J. Cooper.
Among the many Hollywood stars who played themselves on Las Vegas, the guest cast included Alec Baldwin, Sylvester Stallone, Paris Hilton, and Cheryl Ladd. Executive producers included Scott Steindorff, Justin Falvey, and Darryl Frank, with the support of NBC Studios and DreamWorks Television.
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Wonder if it will have the original music, the original theme or use different songs? When it went into syndication, they changed the original theme, from A Little Less Conversation, (because the network did NOT want to pay the Elvis estate to use it,) to some other song, Let It Ride.
You'd of thought it would have been ON Peacock when that service showed up, anyway.
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Great that Las Vegas is finally landing somewhere! I have an unusual history trying to watch this fun and entertaining show.
I never saw it when it originally aired but its premise always intrigued me. A few years ago on New Year’s Day evening I saw that E! was running a Las Vegas marathon, decided to check it out and caught 2 episodes.
I liked it! And couldn’t wait to watch more…except there were no more episodes scheduled to be shown…anywhere. I kept an eye on E! for weeks and nothing, no listings for Las Vegas. I checked the channel guide and the internet for places to see it and there were none; it simply was not airing or streaming anywhere. I discovered that a DVD set of the whole series was occasionally available on Amazon…for something like $150. Yikes! I liked it but not That much lol.
The next New Years came. I checked E! again and sure enough another Las Vegas marathon. This time I recorded 10 episodes, all I had room for. Then another year of it not airing anywhere until-yes-New Years again. Once more I recorded some episodes during the now-annual E! marathon.
Of course i wondered why it was never anywhere regularly. Just the one marathon once a year on one channel seemed odd. I was sure it was business, something behind the scenes. When the great James Caan sadly passed away in 2022, something made me wonder if maybe now Las Vegas would finally come to streaming (?) Whatever. Its finally coming, and I can finally watch all the episodes in order. Yay!
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