Netflix's Ted Sarandos: "One of the reasons Friends and The Office are so popular is because they’re on Netflix"

Variety

The Netflix chief content officer said if Friends and The Office were on NBC's failed comedy streaming service Seeso, which shuttered in 2017, they wouldn't be popular with young people as they are today. “Part of the enduring success of the shows is they’ve been available on Netflix in a way that people can watch them and ingrain them in their lives," Sarandos said in a conversation with Katie Couric at Vanity Fair’s New Establishment Summit. "Part of it also is: they sit down they push play and there it is. Friends and The Office found them, too, on Netflix. Remember, Friends and The Office have been widely syndicated for years, still are. … A lot of that phenomenon has been because of Netflix.”