Seinfeld aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998,
over nine seasons and 180 episodes. The show stars
Seinfeld as a fictionalized version of himself who is the
main protagonist and focuses on his personal life
with three of his friends: George Costanza (Jason Alexander),
former girlfriend Elaine Benes (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) and
neighbor across the hall Cosmo Kramer (Michael Richards).
Seinfeld is set mostly in an apartment building in Manhattan's
Upper West Side in New York City. It has been described as
"a show about nothing", often focusing on the minutiae
of daily life.