Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s $100M Netflix contract won’t be renewed due to ‘Polo’: report
The underwhelming response to Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s newest enterprise enterprise has the potential to jeopardize their $100 million cope with Netflix, in keeping with a prime model knowledgeable.
The Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s “Polo” docuseries, launched on the streaming platform earlier this week, has been hit with a slew of damaging evaluations from critics within the days that adopted.
The duo, who each served as govt producers on the undertaking, made minimal appearances within the docuseries, with the promotion of the undertaking additionally underdelivering.
Model knowledgeable Nick Ede has now warned that the documentary may very well be the “nail within the coffin” for the pair’s profitable Netflix partnership, which they signed in 2020.
“The brand new polo documentary hasn’t obtained good evaluations, and that is one other foray into producing from Meghan and Harry,” Ede advised the Each day Mail.
“All eyes will probably be on whether or not the present charges and makes the crucial prime ten. It may, just like the Invictus documentary, begin properly as a result of public’s fascination with the pair and with polo doubtlessly.”
Ede warned that the undertaking was all the time going to “honest badly” because it went up towards Netflix’s newest releases like “Black Doves” and a wide range of new Christmas movies.
“This might doubtlessly be a nail within the coffin for his or her cope with the streaming large who now use algorithms to verify their programming is ideal for his or her subscribers,” he added.
The Submit has reached out to Netflix and reps for the Sussexes for remark.
It comes after the “Fits” alum, 43, completed filming her upcoming present for Netflix in July.
Whereas particulars about her new undertaking stay scarce, the collection will reportedly be centered round cooking and wellness.
It is going to be produced by Sony Photos Tv, in addition to Markle herself, and can doubtless collaborate with her impending life-style model, American Riviera Orchard, which has but to be launched.
Each the polo docuseries and the upcoming cooking present fall beneath the deal Harry and Markle signed with Netflix beneath their Archewell Productions firm.
In February, Netflix Chief Content material Officer Bela Bajaria revealed the kinds of initiatives the duo are engaged on beneath their profitable deal with the platform.
“They’ve a few unscripted issues they’re engaged on with Brandon [Riegg, the head of unscripted shows at Netflix],” Bajaria mentioned.
“And so they even have like a bunch of improvement. They’ve a film in improvement; a [scripted] collection that they’re engaged on. So all very early improvement, with a film, a TV present and a few unscripted exhibits. However yeah, the film’s nice.”
The couple’s earlier collaboration with Netflix — a docuseries titled “Harry & Meghan” — proved to be a large hit after its launch in Dec. 2022.
Additionally they executive-produced Netflix’s docuseries “Stay To Lead,” in addition to “Coronary heart of Invictus,” a documentary following athletes making ready for the Harry-founded Invictus Video games, which hit the streamer in August 2023.
Additionally that month, writer Carley Fortune confirmed Archewell is adapting her romance novel “Meet Me on the Lake” for Netflix.
