If you feel like the 90s are everywhere now—with the Terminator and Jurassic Park reboots and Full House sequel and even frickin’ Coach coming back—then get ready for puffy shirts and black and white cookies to be added to the throng. No, they’re not remaking Seinfeld (for now, and hopefully forever), but the iconic 90s sitcom is about to be even easier to find than its current status of “always in reruns on some channel you didn’t even know you got.”
Streaming service Hulu has paid a reported $180 million to land the streaming rights to every episode of Seinfeld, at a price of nearly $1 million per episode. With Friends now available in its entirety on Netflix, and Frasier already on Hulu, the greats of the "Must-See TV" era are now fully binge-watchable. (Who wants to place bets on ER popping up on one of these platforms sooner than later?)
At their upfronts today Hulu announced an additional mega-deal, landing the exclusive streaming rights to the upcoming spinoff Fear the Walking Dead, as well as other series from AMC and its associated networks, which include IFC, SundanceTV, and BBC America.
If these huge deals for streaming rights seem insane to you, just remember the alternative: we could have SeinfeldVision.