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All 180 episodes of "Seinfeld," one of the most
popular TV comedies of the 1990s, will be available on Netflix
starting Oct. 1, the streaming platform said in a statement.
Netflix bought the worldwide rights to "Seinfeld" in 2019 in a
deal that allowed the show to stream on Hulu until 2021.
Hollywood trade outlets said at the time that the deal was worth
more than $500 million and beat offers from other streaming
platforms as they raced to sign up popular content and new
subscribers.
The 10-time Emmy Award-winning comedy about a group of friends
living in New York City was created by comedians Jerry Seinfeld
and Larry David and ended on NBC television in 1998 after nine
seasons.
“Larry and I are enormously grateful to Netflix for taking this
chance on us. It takes a lot of guts to trust two schmucks who
literally had zero experience in television when we made this
thing,” Seinfeld said in a tongue-in-cheek statement on
Wednesday.
"We really got carried away, I guess. I didn’t realize we made
so many of them. Hope to recoup god knows how many millions it
must have taken to do. But worth all the work if people like it.
Crazy project,” he added.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; editing by Jonathan Oatis)
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