The puffy shirt. Risk, a game about world domination being played by two men who can barely run their own lives. Shrinkage.
All these classic episodes from the ’90s iconic comedy “Seinfeld” may be streaming online soon.
According to the Wall Street Journal, “Sony Pictures Television, a unit of Sony Corp., is in advanced talks to sell reruns of the hit 1990s NBC sitcom to an online video service, and expects to have a deal wrapped up in the next few weeks.” They report that Hulu, Amazon and Yahoo — Netflix has already passed — are among the bidders for the rights to stream the episodes in a “deal [that] could fetch a price well north of half a million dollars per episode.”
The WSJ reports that Netflix paid more than $500,000 per episode for “Friends,” according to their sources. Sony is seeking more money for “Seinfeld,” which has 180 episodes on the block. “Seinfeld” creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David will also make money from the deal. Warner Bros. said in 2010 that the show had already made $2.7 billion in syndication revenue.
That’s a lot of cereal.
