Netflix Announces Seinfeld Premiere Date

Seinfeld is set to make its move to Netflix on October 1st. Netflix announced the news today and released a teaser trailer which you can watch below. The show had been on Hulu since 2015 but that deal ended on June 23rd, meaning Seinfeld is currently not on any streaming service.

Netflix beat out Hulu and several others in a bidding war for Seinfeld.

Netflix’s full press release, which jokingly bills the show as new and Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David as “rising stars,” is below.

NETFLIX TO LAUNCH SERIES BASED ON THE COMEDY OF JERRY SEINFELD

180-EPISODE SHOW IS CALLED, SIMPLY, ‘SEINFELD’
PREMIERING GLOBALLY ON NETFLIX OCTOBER 1, 2021

Hollywood, CA — Netflix will launch 180 episodes of a situational comedy called ‘Seinfeld,’ created by rising New York comedian Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David, who wrote for Saturday Night Live for a single season.

The show completed production in May (of 1998) and is slated for release on the Netflix platform in its entirety on October 1, 2021.

Bookended by Seinfeld’s stand-up material, the 180 episodes of the sitcom explore the minutiae of the comic’s everyday life as he navigates his relationships with a talented ensemble cast, including Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Troll, Family Ties), Michael Richards (UHF, Fridays) and Jason Alexander (Pretty Woman).

“This is the first time we’ve taken a risk of this nature, going all in on 9 seasons at the jump,” said Netflix Co-CEO Ted Sarandos. “But Jerry has created something special with this sitcom that nobody has ever done. I truly think he and Mr. David have enormous futures ahead of them and I’m thrilled Netflix could be the home for them to grow their fanbases.”

“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,” said Seinfeld. “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.”

‘Seinfeld’ is a West/Shapiro Production in association with Castle Rock Entertainment. It is executive produced by Larry David, Howard West and George Shapiro. Sony Pictures Television is the global distributor of ‘Seinfeld.’