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Netflix broke out its checkbook, and yada, yada, yada, Seinfeld is staying on the streamer for another five years.
Sony Pictures Television has renewed its Seinfeld licensing agreements with Netflix and Paramount — the latter will keep the show’s basic-cable rights for three more years. Netflix has streaming exclusivity in the U.S. and Canada; Paramount’s cable rights are U.S.-only (and existing syndication deals with Nexstar, Tegna and Scripps, remain in place). Seinfeld airs on Comedy Central, nightly on TV Land and occasionally on other Paramount cable networks.
Financial terms of the deals were not disclosed.
Seinfeld debuted in 1989 on NBC. Though it got off to a slow start, it is generally considered one of the best sitcoms of all time. And Seinfeld is still a huge hit: Nielsen says nearly 60 million Americans (or roughly 20 percent of the entire U.S. population) has watched Seinfeld over the first six months of 2026. The series is Comedy Central’s most-watched “off-network series” and TV Land’s second-most-watched program among adults 25-54. (It is likely Everybody Loves Raymond is TV Land’s top show in the demo — the full rankings were not made available.)
