"Complete Waste Of Money" - Few Watching Meghan Markle as Netflix Numbers Tanked

0:03 Calorogus Shark Media, Hello and welcome to ballast Intrigue. Aam your host Mark Francis. Meghan has suffered a fresh setback after the second season of her Netflix lifestyle series failed to attract a significant audience. Viewing figures. Show with Love Megan drew roughly two million views between July and December, placing it outside Netflix's top one thousand most watched programs and representing a drop of more than sixty percent from its initial run. According to reporting by the Telegraph, the show ranked oney and sixteen overall, despite extensive promotion and celebrity appearances. The first season had also struggled, reaching just over five million views, a performance comparable to repeat airings of Downton Abbey, which premiered more than a decade ago, and trailing reruns of Suits, the program that originally brought Megan international recognition. Some reports indicate Meghan is in talks with Netflix to try to save the show, perhaps through holiday specials. Celebrity chef Jemison Stocks launched a public attack on Meghan's Netflix cooking series amid reports it were not returned for a third season. Stocks, who was previously cooked for King Charles works with the Prince's Trust and recently received a Culinary Excellence Award presented by Carol Vorderman said the reported acting of With Love Meghan was inevitable. The numbers speak for themselves. It was a disaster, not only for Meghan's brand, but also for Netflix. It proved to

1:34 be a complete waste of money with absolutely no return on investment. The outcome was hardly surprising, given that they filmed the first two seasons back to back. In the first season was already a complete flop. It had the potential to last for many seasons, but unfortunately it was unbelievably bad. The only reason it received so much height was because of who she is, not because of her abilities. What she was teaching and showing people was honestly quite pathetic, dull, and up buying. I think the audiences are growing tired of her, not just her brands, but her moaning and constant self indulgent bullshit. People can see through her, and the people see through her. I find it really hard to believe that Netflix would choreograph and create such a bad show. Her fingerprints are all over the crime. I believe this is highly damaging because it demonstrates that being famous doesn't guarantee success or a hit. If you put someone with no talent in front of the audience, people will quickly see through it. Looking ahead, he suggested Meghan's focus would now shift fully to her lifestyle venture. I believe she will continue with her brand since she has vested a lot and it's too far along to change course.

2:39 Perhaps she can con another network to pay her an exorbitant amount for less than mediocre content. Either way, I'm not losing any sleep over whether she can afford to eat. Harry and Meghan are reported to be developing a new Netflix film, moving further into mainstream Hollywood territory, with an adaptation of the twenty eighteen romance novel The Wedding and Date by a best selling author, Jasmin Guillory. The story centers on two strangers who meet in an elevator before embarking on what the book describes as a fun and flirty, romantic journey. The project will be produced through the couple's company, Archwall Productions. Following the Sussex's signing a new first look deal with Netflix's last August, an insider told Heat magazine there is so much writing on this movie being a success.

3:22 Megan is saying this is a make or break time, and she wants all hands on deck. She feels like they've finally got a real shot at making a huge hit, and if this movie does as well as people are predicting, it could dig them out of their slump. However, the report suggests the project has exposed growing differences between the couple, particularly when it comes to Harry's appetite for Hollywood. The Insider said Harry is experiencing a meltdown over attaching his name to what the described as of Phil good Flick, adding that he has become increasingly disillusioned with the entertainment industry. It's not just that Harry wants to put his energy into his causes. His family situation weighs on him, and the heaviness of it makes him much lesser patient with other things, particularly things he views us shallow. The last thing he wants to do right now is to get into his suit to kiss up to a bunch of Hollywood types. He does it for Megan's sake, but it's usually with a lot of reluctance, and it's not something he's proud of. The source adds Harry's lack of enthusiasm is driving her crazy. From Meghan's point of view, it's going to be beyond aggravating that he's pushing back like this.

4:21 She's working a butt off trying to create income streams for them, and he's turning his nose up. She's sure that if he were to throw himself into the Hollywood game the way she has, then they'd be way more successful. And it's true, Harry is bored stiff by Hollywood and the whole industry. He doesn't want to go beggingto a bunch of phonies. He does see that is beneath him. Just look at the fuss he kicked up after Chris Jenna shared a pick of him at a party. She was made to take it down the inside who explains they're publicist. Meredith Mainz left right after that. She's the eleventh one they've burned through so far, which is a terrible look. And people are still chattering about how they can't keep staff and how toxic things are. Harry hates that sort of talk going around. It makes him want to stay out of the spotlight even more. The big social media push Meghan's been on hasn't helped. That's a huge sticking point for him. The source says he's complained to his friends that he's losing control of the narrative of his own life and that he's being turned into this marketing strategy. People analyze the optics of everything he does.

5:20 It drives him up the wall, he says, his sake of feeling like he has to perform now. The source says getting Harry on board with his latest project could be one resolution Meghan may struggle to keep. Harry isn't an easy character. Once he's got his back up about something, he can be very stubborn, and he does seem very set on this new anti Hollywood stance. It's not going to be easy for Meghan to talk him out of it. More palacing, just a moment. In The Express, a Licia Liberty writes, as someone who has spent years analyzing Meghan Michael's public image, her late US move on social media says more than any interview ever could. The Duchess's carefully timed post was not spontaneous or sentimental. It was strategic.

6:05 It proves once again that attention, not privacy, remains a driving force behind her every decision, and the more her influence wanes, the more deliberate these moments appear to become. But what struck me most was how her children are now being quietly woven into her social media strategy. Earlier this week, Megan shared images from a family trip to the zoo, with Archie taking center stage as he fed rhinos and explored the space. While their faces were hidden and angles Titling controlled. The storytelling was unmistakable. Family content sells, and Megan knows it. For years she has insisted on fiercely protecting her children's privacy, yet their presence online is becoming increasingly frequent and prominent. You can obscure faces while still placing children at the heart of a narrative. In my view, it's only a matter of time before that protection loosens further and the children are brought more fully into the public eye. Megan would no doubt market it as a natural progression, pointing to her own beginnings in acting as proof that the path is organic rather than orchestrated.

7:06 Harry's role has also evolved. He is now a regular fixture of Megan's social media peering and candid style images, and always referred to pointedly as my husband. All of this sits awkwardly alongside the Sussex's original promise of privacy. Instead, what we are seeing as calculated visibility, nostalgia driven posts, carefully framed moments in a husband reposition is part of the narrative. Meghan's latest move doesn't suggest a retreat from attention. It proves once again that she is chasing it. In The Royalist, Tom Sykes commented on Meghan's use of children in social media, observing, despite Harry's attacks on the media, Meghan and Harry run a significant pr operation like spending hundreds of thousands of dollars with the explicit aim of placing stories in the press that complicates principled opposition to media intrusion. My discomfort around Harry's case stems less from the merits of individual allegations and more from the contradiction.

7:59 At its core. The very behaviors Harry condemns, the construction of a family brand, the management of happy family narratives, and the exposure of children without their consent are now being repeated with his own household in front of our eyes. Yeah there you have it to email us addresses the palace intrigue at a gmail dot com. Please follow us on Spotify, Apple or the app of your choice, and join us on Facebook, Instagram or the social media sites. I Mark Francis my thanks to John McDermott. This is Palace Intrigue and good terms.