johnbook

Any news yet on this season and beyond...

Al_Tahoe

No news that I've heard. If they follow their previous release patterns, expect Season 7 in June or July and Seasons 8 and 9 in late November.

M Polo

May be a dumb question but how many seasons are there total. I am a fan, just can't remember...

EdTheRipper

It ran for 9 seasons.

Dubya

They released season four in May of last year, so I would expect 7 to be released in May as well. 8 & 9 will follow in November.

GuruTwo

but Season 5 was long-announced by this time last year. I believe Sony officially announces their titles exactly 11 weeks before the release date and that info usually leaks several weeks in advance so it would be almost impossible to get it out in May.

JuryDuty

I think the last three will all come out in November, also available in a gift box set, for the holidays. That way there will have been three box sets for the show.

Matt

From exactly one year ago today:

http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3114

I bet we'll see an announcement very shortly.

But the other two gift sets they've released only had two volumes each. Why would they deviate from that this time around?

First two volumes released November 2004, along with gift set.
Third volume released May 2005.
Fourth and fifth volumes released November 2005, along with gift set.

Based on that, I'm guessing we'll see this:

Volume 6 (Season 7) released in May.
Volumes 7 and 8 (Seasons 8 and 9) released in November, along with a gift set containing both of those, along with a collectible bowl of mulligatawny or something.

Matt

Which, I just now realized, would be unlikely, since the Soup Nazi episode is in Season 7.

So maybe it'll be a miniature Festivus pole or something instead. Even better.

M Polo

I wonder if we will see a collector box/case send in type deal like they did for Friends.

quickfire

Isn't the Soup Nazi on one of these seasons coming up?If so .....how about a little cook book of soup recipes.......from the Soup Nazi?Heck I would try to make some just to see if it was as good as it seemed on the show!

GuruTwo

Yeah, but if you go back and look at the show's news history on TVshowsondvd.com you'll see that the Season 4 release was rumored on February 23rd, nearly three weeks before the official announcement. We don't have an official announcement this year, and we don't even have rumors this year.

You're setting yourself up for disappointment if you're thinking you're gonna get "Seinfeld" Season 7 by May. There's nothing whatsoever to suggest that that's gonna happen.

I think it makes all the sense in the world to maintain the release schedule they already started with the previous sets but then again, I don't run Sony.

There could be many possible reasons for the change: the extras might not be ready, they might be withholding it for the holiday season or they may simply be releasing it a couple months later, but a May release is really unlikely.

Matt

You do have a point in that there isn't any pre-announcement info out there this time around, whereas with the previous releases there was a ton of info leaked before their official announcements.

So, maybe you're right. Or, maybe they're just being particularly tight-lipped with info, for some reason.

Guess we'll just have to wait and see.

Matt

And, looking at their Seinfeld news (link), the first mentions of Seasons 5 and 6 were in mid-September of last year, and they were released in mid-to-late November--about a two-and-a-half month gap there. So it's reasonable to think they could still announce Season 7 pretty soon for a late-May release.

DarthVong

Sony has release dates up to May 16th, so late May is a very good possibility for now.

Deadpool

Waiting for this season more than any other..."The Shower Head" my favorite episode

GuruTwo

I'm just excited about this season because it means I'll have the entire "Larry David Era" on DVD. I'm still buying seasons 8 & 9 but season 7 marks a milestone, too.

Michael Corvin

Well boys, May is just around the corner and no announcement/release in sight. I don't think it's happening, unless I missed something somewhere.

coli

I think the gift sets sell so well around Christmas, I suspect they will do Seasons 7,8,9 as one gift set in November '06.

I betcha they want the Soup Nazi gifts to be included, and that is Season 7, so that may be the reason for the delay. Think about all the soup recipes that Elaine found that they can include in the gift set.

Sorry guys, "NO DVD's FOR YOU, You have to wait 6 months!"

Matt

Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day when Sony announced a bunch of TV releases for mid-June.

So, I was wrong. Wasn't the first time, and it definitely won't be the last time.

I still think we'll have the final three seasons on DVD by Christmas, though.

bunkaroo

And hear I was thinking I could finally clear "The Soup Nazi" off my DVR after almost a year. Not yet....

"You're schmoopy!"

GuruTwo

I doubt it, I think we'll get 7 & 8 as the Holiday gift set and then Season 9 will be released on it's own (maybe not even until November '07) since they can hype it up since it's the final season.

Morf

Yeah, hang onto that. I don't think anyone airs Seinfeld anymore.

Seantn

I just took an online survey a few weeks ago, and it was asking about DVD's. It said "Would you be interested in buying the final seasons of Seinfeld when it is released this November?"

So I can confirm that it is being released in November...It even had a list of the special features on it, but since I don't really watch Seinfeld, I don't remember what they are.

Seantn

The online survey was from a company that is hired by the studios, just so you guys know that it wasn't some random survey made up by anyone.