All nine seasons of Seinfeld will be available to stream on Netflix on October 1 — and in 4K. This will mark the first time that every episode of the NBC series will be available to stream on a single service globally.
To accompany the announcement, Netflix released a video on Twitter touting the show's arrival on the streamer as a "180 episode premiere."
All 180 episodes of Seinfeld hit Netflix on October 1 pic.twitter.com/H73RZvNUw9
— Netflix (@netflix) September 1, 2021
“[Seinfeld co-creator] Larry [David] 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,” said Jerry Seinfeld in a press release. “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.”
Netflix acquired the rights to stream Seinfeld in 2019. Hulu had held the exclusive streaming rights to Seinfeld until last June. This new deal will see Netflix house the NBC sitcom for five years. While financial details of the agreement were not disclosed at the time, it was reported that Netflix paid "far more" than $500 million — the total that NBCUniversal paid to bring The Office to Peacock.
"This is the first time we’ve taken a risk of this nature, going all in on 9 seasons at the jump. But Jerry has created something special with this sitcom that nobody has ever done," Netflix co-CEO Ted Sarandos said in a statement.
In other Seinfeld news, a fan-designed LEGO set of Jerry Seinfeld's apartment in the show hit the market last month, complete with Minifigs of the show's main characters (and Newman). And if you really can't wait to see some Seinfeld on Netflix, Bee Movie is currently available to watch on the streaming service in the US.
J. Kim Murphy is a freelance entertainment writer.