Netflix acquires global streaming rights for “Seinfeld” starting in 2021
https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/16/netflix-acquires-global-streaming-rights-for-seinfeld-starting-in-2021/
Netflix has just scored a major content deal that could help it to stem the loss of subscribers as competition among streamers heats up. The company announced it has acquired the global streaming rights to the popular sitcom “Seinfeld,” which will bring all 180 episodes of the Emmy winner to the Netflix subscribers starting in 2021.
The timing of this addition is critical for Netflix, as “Seinfeld” will go to air the same year that the streamer loses one of its most-watched pieces of content: re-runs of “The Office.” It will also follow Netflix’s loss of another iconic sitcom — when “Friends” exits the service in 2020.