With Apple acquiring the rights to James Corden’s “Carpool Karaoke”, it seems that Netflix doesn’t want Apple to have all the fun because in a report from Variety, they have learnt that it seems that Jerry Seinfeld’s “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee” could be coming to Netflix later this year.
Prior to this, the show had been streaming on Sony’s Crackle service thanks in part to Seinfeld’s relationship with Sony back in the day where the “Seinfeld” TV series was produced by Sony Pictures Television. However it will now be making the jump to Netflix where Netflix subscribers can look forward to 24 new exclusive episodes. This deal with Netflix will also see Seinfeld film two new stand-up specials that will also be exclusive to the platform.
In a statement released by Seinfeld, “When I first started thinking about ‘Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,’ the entire Netflix business model consisted of mailing out DVDs in envelopes. 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.”
The new episodes and series is expected to begin airing on Netflix late 2017, but no specific dates have been mentioned yet.
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