Meghan Markle’s latest Netflix venture, an 8-part series titled “With Love, Meghan,” has earned lower viewership numbers than her 2022 series, “Harry & Meghan.”
New figures appear to suggest that viewers prefer seeing the Duchess of Sussex onscreen with her husband, Prince Harry, rather than solo.
The “Suits” alum, 43, premiered her cooking show on the streamer on March 4. And while it managed to find a way into Netflix’s Top 10 list, streaming figures show a stark contrast between her solo venture and her joint tell-all series alongside the Duke of Sussex, the Daily Mail reports.
“With Love, Meghan” — a series that shows the mom of two offer up a “how-to guide” for entertaining — racked up a total of 526,000 households in the first five days it was available, according to data obtained by Samba TV.
By comparison, Meghan and Harry’s 2022 series drew in 2.1 million households in the same number of days, the TV tech company’s data showed.
Markle’s latest project proved to be most successful among viewers aged between 45 and 54.
As for geographical success, “With Love, Meghan” was most successful in the Baltic states, including Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia.
While the show did trend in the US, UK and Canada for a few days, it slid down the Top 10 list after three days, and officially fell off the list over the weekend.
Still, it appears as though Netflix was chuffed with the streaming numbers “With Love, Meghan” raked in, as the streamer announced last week that the show has been greenlit for Season 2.
The Sussexes signed a $100 million deal with the streamer in 2020.
They came out with their five-part “Harry & Meghan” docuseries in 2022, in which the pair provided an intimate look into their new life in sunny California after stepping down as senior members of the royal family in January 2020.
They also executive-produced Netflix’s docuseries “Live To Lead,” which focused on trailblazers such as New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Greta Thunberg, Gloria Steinem and Equal Justice Initiative attorney Bryan Stevenson.
The project was closely followed by “Heart of Invictus,” a documentary following athletes preparing for the Harry-founded Invictus Games, which hit the streamer in August 2023.
In December, Harry released his “Polo” documentary. However the project — which barely featured the exiled royal — received a scathing reception from critics.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
