Prince Harry, Meghan Markle’s $100M Netflix contract might not be renewed thanks to ‘Polo’

'Polo' blows.

With all their talent? Must be sabotage. MI6?

[quote] It’s clattering and niche, and feels like a spoof documentary designed to play on screens in the background of episodes of ‘Succession.'”

Ouch.

Details of their contract have never been released.

100 million. Lol.

Polo will die. Meghan's show will never air. Netflix will not renew their contract. Meghan will become more desperate, insert herself into events, glomp onto celebrities and continue to embarrass herself.

[quote] While details about her new project remain scarce, the series will reportedly be centered around cooking and wellness. It will be produced by Sony Pictures Television, as well as Markle herself, and will likely collaborate with her impending lifestyle brand, American Riviera Orchard, which has yet to be launched.

I would hate that kind of shit, even with Martha Stewart or Rachael whatsername, but who really believes Meghan is into cooking - or even wellness, apart from Ozempic and botox. She's one of the phoniest women I've ever seen.

[quote] I would hate that kind of shit, even with Martha Stewart or Rachael whatsername, but who really believes Meghan is into cooking - or even wellness, apart from Ozempic and botox. She's one of the phoniest women I've ever seen.

Can't be worse than that "Magnolia" lifestyle channel bullshit, with that oriental MAGA cunt.

I would be willing to watch a TV show with Prince Harry in it, but only if they include several nude scenes of him.

They can not deserve the shit they get and be bad at television at the same time. I wish them well, but I turned them off after watching the doc they did on themselves. The last 15 minutes or so was fucking bizarre egotism.

Good, get her off my screen.

A “brand expert” offering his opinion about something we can see for ourselves and regurgitated copy from Netflix ten months ago.

But I for one would love to see Markle’s lifestyle show.

It sucks, they suck, they blew their golden opportunities.

Some online their retinue should explain to them that the only rich people who get a pass in the Luigi Mangioni era are unpretentious, vulgar, burger scoffing rich people, like Trump.

Well R11 only a few months to go till you get to feast on soft focus images of Meghan being too intense and theatrical with some eggs and a skillet.

[Quote]And they actually have like a bunch of development

What they have is declining public interest, hair loss, total estrangement from the Golden Goose that is the British Royal Family, and a weird, greedy women in her forties whose ego writes checks her capabilities can't cash.

They don't make good content. And they are self-sabotaging enough to keep too much control so they don't hire collaborators who COULD make good content. Fatally flawed couple who had everything handed to them and still managed to fuck it up.

[quote] It sucks, they suck, they blew their golden opportunities.

They never should have HAD any golden opportunities. A B-list actress and a whiny aristocrat trading off reflected significance. If America didn’t worship fame, they’d never be producing content.

C-list.

I'm really ok with them trying to make the money required to pay for seclusion and security. Harry and the kids didn't ask to be born. They just need to learn to do it almost anonymously. We don't see the Obamas much, and they're producing allsorts right now.

The Obamas are very intelligent, talented people of extraordinary accomplishments.

Meghan starred on a basic cable TV show and Harry just was born into fame.

Co-starred.

Obamas have many IQ points on this royal couple and also years of successful professional work at the executive level, which usually requires the skill of hiring good people to execute your execellent plans and ideas.

But that's the point. They need to step back and build up skills.

They have no substance. No talent. No skills or expertise. They aren't charismatic. Harry's looks are below average and hers are just average. She's always a wrinkled mess with messy hair and inappropriately dressed. Harry is always whining about something or someone, nobody likes a crybaby or a tattletale.

[quote] they are self-sabotaging enough to keep too much control so they don't hire collaborators who COULD make good content

Another big problem is that Meghan seems to chase away anyone who might be able to help her.

I don't know what she's doing behind the scenes, but everyone who works for her ends up quitting

I'd love to know why, but I assume they all sign NDAs.

I think we know why.

Starts with a C. Four letters. Want to buy a vowel?

Building skills is something one does from 15-35.

What r5 said

[quote]Building skills is something one does from 15-35.

Maybe so, but these people have to make a living and will just have to get on with it, or we should expect more desperate theatrics from them that annoy you.

The fork is in and they are done.

So they're BAD PEOPLE and must be PUNISHED. No redemption allowed! You all are the picture of psychological health!

Now I really understand what "drivel" means. Who asked for this pretentious bullshit?

Netflix, sadly. But not for much longer.

Righteous indignation from the Harkles' PR Intern on duty this weekend @ r 30.

[quote] So they're BAD PEOPLE and must be PUNISHED. No redemption allowed! You all are the picture of psychological health!

You’re missing the point. They are not people who are entitled to success. They are not talented. They are not accomplished. That’s not saying they are bad people (though there is evidence that she is a nasty person).

They are non-entities pretending to be achieving something to justify their lavish lifestyle, and plenty of people were happy to help them along, until their failures caught up with them.

I'm sorry for the times people didn't give you a little grace, r34. The world is indeed cruel, but you help make it so.

What happened to her expensive jam company? Or podcast? Why not keep quiet until they’re ready to launch something legit. They made that huge splash announcing their stupid American Riviera nonsense a year ago…and I still can’t buy a $50 jar of jam from them.

I'd be afraid of getting botulism from any jam that Meghan had a hand in producing.

You think Harry and Meghan have not been given “a little grace?” Their entire existence is a little grace. A little grace goes a long way, but apparently not the distance.

[quote] What they have is declining public interest, hair loss, total estrangement from the Golden Goose that is the British Royal Family, and a weird, greedy women in her forties whose ego writes checks her capabilities can't cash.

What a right-on summary, r14.

The only thing I would add is that Harry is a bigger fool and more blame-worthy than Markle is.

Would have. Could have. Should have.

If they'd have toughed it out, by now, they would be appearing at London "A list" Hollywood movie charity premiers. Those are right up there alley.

William and Kate would've gotten first pick, but I don't doubt that for some of them, they'd have been glad to pass them along those to the eager, attention hungry Sussexes.

And then, guess what, Markle. At those premiers with you as a working Royal Duchess, the celebrities would be waiting for your attention, not the other way around like it is now- the both of you hustling for relevance.

Fools.

The next installment of this pathetic saga is the inevitable divorce.

I wouldn't doubt Markle would love to file now, but she's savvy enough to hold out until right after King Charles dies. She has social position and financial reasons to still want to be the King's legal daughter-in-law when he dies.

It would be amusing, however, if Harry beat her to the court to file.

[quote] Netflix ‘Exhausted’ by Meghan Markle As Her and Prince Harry’s Polo Show Bombs

Amidst the apparent unfolding failure of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s five-part documentary about Polo, sources have told the Daily Mail that Netflix executives are “exhausted” from working with Markle and her future at the streaming giant now rests on her “make or break” cookery show, which still has no premiere date.

The Daily Beast has reported that the Sussexes—once heralded as Netflix’s golden duo who promised “content that informs but also gives hope” through a “truthful and relatable lens”—and Netflix appear keen to move on from Polo, which was lambasted by critics.

One called it a “tedious inside look” at the sport and a “dull indulgence” while another reviewer suggested the series seemed designed as a spoof to play in the background of Succession episodes.

There have been no media or promotional events scheduled to support the series. As Sean McNulty, the producer, writer and Hollywood veteran who is also the creator and writer of newsletter The Wakeup told the Daily Beast earlier this week: “The lack of a proper, visible press campaign for a series from Harry and Meghan raises an eyebrow to say the least.”

One source told the Daily Mail: “It’s make or break. People say Netflix are exhausted. It’s so much work with her and, bluntly, the ‘deliverable’ does not seem to be worth it.”

Another entertainment executive reportedly said, “Her show will have to be an enormous hit to turn around their deal and their reputations in this town.”

The Mail cites sources as saying the show will drop in February or March after Harry’s profile will be raised by the Winter Invictus Games in Whistler, Canada. Markle’s homeware brand American Riviera Orchard will launch at the same time, the report says.

The Mail says that despite having bought the rights to a hit book, Meet Me At The Lake, the project has yet to enter production and is thus unlikely to drop before the Netflix deal is up for renewal next year.

Harry and Meghan do not have official social media accounts, but their friends who have often promoted things on their behalf have either done nothing or very little for the new show.

As the Daily Beast reported this week, Nacho Figueras, one of the stars of the series, has only posted a few items about the show, which dropped on Tuesday.

A source quoted in Closer Magazine attempted to defend Harry and Meghan, saying the end result was “pretty much out of their control” because “the bosses wanted the series to appeal to the masses and push this reality TV angle.”

Tony Case, a marketing expert and writer, told The Daily Beast this week: “The critics have universally slammed the show. Harry and Meghan are box office poison. Of course everyone is running away from it, in every direction to not pick up the stench of this colossal bomb.”

He added, “From a brand perspective, I’m not really sure anything can be done at this point to reverse consumers’ obvious apathy toward the Sussexes. They set out to conquer America, but nobody here, it turned out, found them or what they’re peddling to be particularly compelling.”

I find it suspicious that Netflix is "exhausted with Meghan" even though it was HARRY's Polo documentary that bombed.

Typical anti-Meghan media bullshit.

Meghan was coexecutive producer. She inserts herself into everything Harry does.

[QUOTE]I'm sorry for the times people didn't give you a little grace,

They've had six years worth of grace split across two continents and different audiences. Most people IRL don't have the buffer of privilege to get the indulgence of repeatly making the same ego-based mistakes and expecting roses and accolades thrown in their direction. Even ever-faithful Nacho can't seem to muster much enthusiasm for them anymore. ("Oh, my god. What if they send a jar of marmalade during orange harvest season?")

The Meghan stans are hard to understand. Is it because they are so wedded to the “Royal Family are racists” storyline that they can’t acknowledge that she alienates almost everyone in her life and probably made up the storyline to explain her quitting which was probably due to her realizing that being a Princess does not give you license to treat people like dirt?

[quote]While details about her new project remain scarce, the series will reportedly be centered around cooking and wellness.

Creative and unique. No celebrities have done cooking shows or discussed issues like wellness before.

Who knows, but the cooking/lifestyle show might work. There are good people involved with it. Good or bad it's going to have a huge viewership...at least in the beginning... with people watching out of curiosity. Whether or not she'll be able to maintain good numbers is to be seen.

Thing is, she's competing with Joanna Gains who is a pro and knows her shit and built a company over years of work.

There's even a slight resemblance.

Netflix is continuously in the red because they keep giving stupid contracts like this.

Lol R47.

Are they really in the red?

Fucking grifters.

They’re so tone deaf - why on earth would they think that polo is going to captivate the American people during this time of political and economic instability? I don’t think viewers are in an aspirational mood.

R47 From Forbes October 2024: "Netflix continues to be the most profitable streaming provider. In its latest earnings quarterly report, Netflix recorded a net income of $2.15 billion, a year-over-year increase from $1.49 billion. Netflix revenue for the quarter was $9.56 billion, an increase of +17% from one year prior."

From the DM. The Archwell chief has a huge salary. The second on command makes ~ $250K. Not sure what the foundation has done lately.

[QUOTE]Nep, who has experience putting celebrities' charity ideas into action, holds the position of co-executive director, treasurer and secretary at Archewell, bringing her total earnings to almost $300,000, the equivalent of more than five per cent of the charity's revenue last year.

[QUOTE]Her huge salary was revealed when Archewell released its tax return for 2023 after months of speculation over $4million that had not yet been declared.

They're losers and has-beens.

[quote] I'm really ok with them trying to make the money required to pay for seclusion and security. Harry and the kids didn't ask to be born.

Huh? Who was in charge of the 2 kids being born? Harry.

Well... according to the erudite Professor Tim Wilson, there's news from Montecito. Harry and Meghan have invited Princess Eugenie and family to California for Christmas! We'll see.

But there's also an “extraordinary story that Meghan Markle wants to shield herself from the public so that she can use the new year to refocus, according to her psychic and her Tarot expert… apparently she is dominated by the Queen of Pentacles which means she’s got to be grounded, practical, and focused on creating security for herself and her family...”

They're too dull to even hate.

Polo is getting hit with Me Too and Safe Sport right now. Probably not a great time to present a series on it.

Well I am totally excited about the publishing of Meghan’s romance novel “Meet Me At The Lake”. I wonder who she’ll be plagiarizing that from?

??? Netflix has optioned the existing novel.

When I was at Northwestern (a few years before Meghan) “Meet Me At The Lake” meant going for nighttime blow jobs on the rocks. If she's writing about that, I may read her steamy page-turner.

Meghan didn't write "Meet Me at the Lake" -- that was Carley Fortune. Meghan talked about making a movie based on that book, but really based on her love story with Harry (vomit). And I think Netflix bought the rights for her? God they've been stupid.

Then there was “The Bench” where most of the words, storyline and the cover art were all lifted from an existing work.

By someone else, naturally.

If only Netflix had gone ahead with "Pearl"--every household in America would have watched!

So, everything hangs on the success of her cooking show now? hahahahahahaha! I know all DLers will hate watch it, but who the hell else will?

I tried to hate listen to her podcast, but it was so dull and she is so off-putting that I couldn't make it thru an episode.

I'm not a fan of either Julie Burchill or The Spectator, but apparently she wrote an article stating that American Riviera Orchard sounds like a urinal cake.

Which it does.

Has anyone here watched Polo to vouch for its shittiness?

Why would anyone but stans and haters watch it?

I ditched Netflix when it went to 20 a month to have it with no adverts.

Discard these useless parasites.

She's an ugly worthless old slag whose pussy has had more action than Normandy circa 1944.

As shit as Tyler Perry's movies are, even *he* won't hire her.

She's not very convincing doing whatever it is she's trying to do here.

She’s a perpetual failure.

Considering the low level of garbage floating downstream about the Markles, I'm not clicking on unidentified bait.

Good.

Their one act show is over. All they ever had was an insider's view of his family. What can they do from now on? Rehash the story of his niece, her mother, and the bridesmaid dress?

No more stories to tell, since his family has written them off...turned the page, as it might be.

Agreed, BonniePrinceCharlie, r73.

Markle might have on more card to play up her ill-fitting sleeve, but she'd have to listen to advice and act upon it.

She should accept an acting role as a love-to-hate or hate-to-love villain. She could even play a secretly benevolent one, an aspect that would appeal to Markle's sense of do-goodism, authentic or phony as that may be.

Why not embrace her unlikability? Seriously.

True, she doesn't have the appeal and talent of Heather Locklear in "Melrose Place". She's not even on the same planet when it comes to the talent of Vanessa Williams as Wilhelmina Slater.

But why not try that? Where else is she going?

That was a huge mistake on her part not to appear with the Suits cast at the GG.

As always, Della, I agree with you. She should embrace her awfulness. No one buys her Saint Meghan bullshit.

However, she has zero sense of humor and a staggering gift for inauthenticity. There’s no way she can present as anything other than victim.

I’m surprised they’re still married but suspect that’s because Harry is terrified of her and keeps out of her way. He clearly has no self-esteem and relies on Meghan’s alternating stroking/slapping to remind him why he exists.

Her ultimate card will be a memoir.

[quote] “The lack of a proper, visible press campaign for a series from Harry and Meghan raises an eyebrow to say the least.”

I'd not actually considered that. Its an amazing bit of self sabotage.

The fact that neither his family nor her family wants anything to do with either of them...should dispel any doubts about what awful people they are.

[quote]Meghan will become more desperate, insert herself into events, glomp onto celebrities and continue to embarrass herself.

Real celebrities don't want to be seen anywhere near her.

[quote] However, she has zero sense of humor and a staggering gift for inauthenticity. There’s no way she can present as anything other than victim.

Yeah, r75. I forgot about the no sense of humor thing with her.

And, as for Markle's inauthenticity, I know it's seemingly a small, harmless moment. I keep harping on it, and re-posting about it, but it was so telling of her artifice that I'm going to re-state it -

I just about fell out of my fall out of recliner chair in shock when I heard the words "Waity Katie" come out of the enlightened feminist Markle's mouth during the Oprah interview.

That was a deliberate Mean-Girl moment by Markle. I saw through it right away.

Markle could not resist twisting the knife into Kate on world-wide TV by saying those words, but she was savvy enough to know she had to cloak it in the context of a seeming sympathy for Kate, and herself, when it came to the UK tabloids and their cruel coverage of them both.

No, Markle.

You reinforce feminist sisterhood by not uttering those words at all; words that were cooked up by the UK tabloids to be hurtful, cruel and misogynistic.

But Markle said them anyway and there can be no other explanation other than her wanting to say them, for her doing that.

No wonder William won't forgive Harry and her. I'm convinced that is a big a part of his gripes about them as was insinuating bigotry.

[quote] Her ultimate card will be a memoir.

Agree, r76, but I think she has to worry about that Buckingham Palace bullying report, assuming it actually exists, and what its findings are.

Heck, it may show that Markle wasn't being an abusive bully. But does she know that?

Man, I'd love to read that thing and maybe we all could if Markle wants to go on the offensive with a memoir.

"Oh, my. A leak of that report? How did that ever happen?"- BRF staff.

This cunt thinks people actually want to read her memoir?

I've read that the memoir is definitely in the works - part of a deal with Penguin-Random House, like Harry's? They made a mint off him. They probably think her book will at least cover the cost. Maybe Harry could write the forward.

Absolutely, Della R80.

And I'm sure Meghan was determined that it be leaked that it was Catherine that asked about the baby's skin color, along with Charles. So that weird cock-up happened in Holland - engineered by Scooby.

She should rebrand herself as Queen of the Mean and really let loose on the BRF, the Spotify exec who nailed her, etc. But she doesn't have enough authenticity about her to even be her natural bad self.

The "self" is so damaged/almost nonexistent with severe personality disorders that I don't think she knows how to be herself - everything is for show. We just get glimpses of the ugly core, like sneaking in the Waity Katy remark.

[QUOTE]As shit as Tyler Perry's movies are, even *he* won't hire her.

R69 - The thought of Meghan Markle in a mostly female cast of black actresses who undoubtedly have better, more authentic emoting skills is intriguing. I suspect Tyler Perry very well knows she can't take direction and her psychological frailties and limitations would take a toll on cast cohesiveness. And a toll on him managing the craziness she'd sow on set.

Actually, the concept of Meghan in any black majority setting that's not in a developing nation (i.e. third world) she's visited as part of her noblesse oblige, self-glorification tours, is probably anathema to her. (Their South African space heaters threatened my baby's life!)

Is she capable of being part of a group that's not majority white or upper-middle class? I mean she has *zero* experience at this, thanks mainly to her father's indulgence (and lottery earnings) that insured she attended L.A. elite schools even though they were working class, and she attended an expensive private university and became part of a white sorority.

Her memoir would be a must read, if just for the self-aggrandizing and countless lies.

Her memoir is a must-flush.

Her memoir will probably be looooong. Word salad, coming up.

Was she even asked to the Golden Globes, r74?

Just the thought of Meghan releasing another book makes me nauseous.

[quote]schools even though they were working class, and she attended an expensive private university and became part of a white sorority.

So what?