Seinfeld wins court case

Jerry Seinfeld has won a court case deciding who came up with the idea for his hit Netflix show Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Judge Alison J. Nathan ruled on Wednesday that the comedian was the creator of the show, following claims from writer-director Christian Charles that he’d initially pitched the concept to Seinfeld in 2001 while they were making their documentary Comedian. Seinfeld wasn’t interested at the time, according to Charles, so he followed up on the idea in 2011. However, according to Seinfeld’s legal team, Charles didn’t request involvement in the project until 2017 when Netflix paid US$750,000 for the rights to each episode, violating the three-year statute of limitations.