Seinfeld Ties Up with Netflix

BEVERLY HILLS: Netflix has signed comedian Jerry Seinfeld to a multi-faceted production deal, part of which sees new episodes of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee becoming available to stream on the service later this year.

A new season of 24 episodes of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee by Jerry Seinfeld will premiere in installments globally on Netflix starting in 2017, with subsequent installments following in 2018 and beyond. Prior seasons of the series (59 existing episodes) will also become available exclusively on Netflix at the same time. The show had previously been a Crackle original.

Seinfeld will also film two all-new, stand-up shows exclusively for Netflix members globally, the first of which will drop later this year. Seinfeld will also help develop scripted and non-scripted comedy programming for Netflix, with additional elements of the deal to be announced later.

“Jerry is known the world over as both a great TV innovator and beloved comic voice,” said Ted Sarandos, the chief content officer at Netflix. “We are incredibly proud to welcome him to the Netflix comedy family.”

“When I first started thinking about Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, the entire Netflix business model consisted of mailing out DVDs in envelopes,” said Seinfeld, who produces, directs and hosts the show. “I love that we are now joining together, both at very different points. I am also very excited to be working with Ted Sarandos at Netflix, a guy and a place that not only have the same enthusiasm for the art of stand-up comedy as I do, but the most amazing technology platform to deliver it in a way that has never existed before. I am really quite charged up to be moving there.”