New Sussex project with Netflix re polo

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Anonymous wrote:I'd watch a waterpolo or hockey drama before a polo one. Why? Because those guys are great-looking and we've watched them for decades in the Olympics or professional teams. I think Harry is limiting himself by focusing on his passion. Ted Lasso worked because he was a regular American coach who went to Britain to coach their players. You had British culture and its people to enjoy. Rich, elitist Florida? Please. Take us to Europe and then you've got something special.

Polo players come from everywhere in the world and travel all over it to play. You're right, the writers should work games abroad into the plot.

No they really don't. Under 25,000 people play polo in the ENTIRE world and only around 5,000 at most in the entire world. More people are playing that Harry Potter Quidditch game . There are well over a million people who play water polo.

Another reason why a show like this will never work is that filming anything to do with horses is terribly expensive. And polo horses? Even more expensive. Now add to that you can whip horses in polo and they can get inadvertently hit by mallets and balls. That isn't going to play well now.

Isn't exclusivity the whole point? I was in Santiago, Chile, recently, and we decided to splurge and go to one of the city's best restaurants. There were polo grounds right next door.

Someone keeps posting that people have to play a sport, do a thing, to be interested in watching it, and that's just not right. What matters is the drama, the acting, and yes, the potential for sweaty, naked athletes. As several here have pointed out, millions of folks who didn't like hockey and/or weren't gay watched Heated Rivalry.

Netflix is never going to give this a big enough budget to do all of that. It's moving to low budget dumbed down shows because they know people aren't paying attention and scrolling while watching anyway.

Enough budget to do all what? Show some hot actor removing his polo jersey to reveal rock hard abs while contemplating whether he should marry the Danish princess his parents have chosen for him or the bohemian daughter of a painter he met in boarding school against their wishes? That's not expensive.

The most expensive part of the show would be the horses and filming the actual polo, but I think that's why Harry's involvement (and likely that of his friend Nacho Figueras who is considered a superstar of the polo world) is so useful -- there may be ways to defray these costs by partnering with a facility like Wellington NPC in Florida, and with a polo association, and providing them with free product placement to help boost the sport. Harry and Nacho are literally the *perfect* people to negotiate a deal like that, they are very well respected and appreciated within the polo community. I suspect the Polo documentary was a way of testing the waters for something like this.

I do assume the show will be dumbed down schlock, not some high minded drama. But there's real potential here.

LOL, this. They won't have to pay to enter polo clubs. They don't need the top ponies in the business; instead, they could buy (or even borrow, if Harry and Nacho have those contacts?) second-string or retired ponies and film those. They will have to pay actors who know how to ride and maybe how to play polo, but even that could probably be faked with good camera work.

This won't be about paying Nacho himself to ride his own pony in an actual match. Nobody watching will know the difference.

Basically, they just need to place a whole bunch of telephoto lenses around the grounds, take a lot of film footage of hot guys on ponies, and pick the best moments.

They could have done that with the polo documentary that nobody watched. So it's like, let's take a topic that nobody was interested in the first time and do another one! You would think you would build on the success of the previous project that was a sleeper hit. But, alas, no. That's not the case. Weird that someone started this thread right out of the gate to shut down any conversation. Too bad it's not working.

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Anonymous wrote:This actually looks good. I found some of their other content a bit boring.

OP here and I agree, I actually fell asleep during the lifestyle show, although I thought it was harmless and just someone else's cup of tea

I mainly wanted to counter the narrative some post here, that Harry and Meghan are broke failures because Netflix hates them, or something something. This polo drama with Netflix looks fun.

Yeah, sounds promising. Netflix only cut ties with the lifestyle show and the As Ever collaboration, that's all.

And that was the plan all along. They were really only helping her launch the brand with the show due to the partnership between them for Netflix content.

Always much ado about nothing with Harry & Meghan. They've made some PR missteps but they are certainly not the monsters people make them out to be.

Ted Sarandos unfollowing As Ever and Meghan definitely was not nothing. He follows plenty of Netflix talent, could simply have left the "follows" in place.

Something doesn’t add up here. I think it’s fake news. Probably to save face.

The only relevant thing here is that Netflix has several projects in production with Meghan and Harry--despite what the hater outlets were saying just a few days ago. Calling this news "fake" just makes you look dumb. Obviously, Sarandos doesn't actually hate Harry or Meghan. And it's a fool's errand to speculate about whether Sarandos is lukewarm, hates, or loves Meghan, based on what someone's hairdresser's cousin who parked near the Netflix parking lot told Variety. Puhleez. And this weird speculation about who Sarandos follows (and he never followed Meghan) is just whinging from sore losers.

I just find this all very strange. I'm not necessarily a hater, but I can't figure out what value add these to have for a fictional scripted series. Are they actually going to do anything real? It sounds like Netflix has script writers and other folks who will actually do most of the work. What will Harry and Meagan do? Does Netflix simply get a bigger audience of their names are attached to the projects?

They will do what other celeb producers do when the produce television shows. They will use their network and their celebrity to help secure financing and get talent on board. This one makes particular sense because Harry is very involved in the polo world. One of his best friends, Nacho Figueras, is a professional Argentinian polo player -- Figueras already worked with Harry on the polo documentary that his production company came out with a couple years ago. I would assume Figueras is involved in the scripted series too. Harry is a member of the Santa Barbara polo club and continues to compete in charity matches regularly. Harry also has good relationships with a lot of sports organizations because of his Invictus work.

This honestly makes more sense than Meghan selling jam. It perfectly dovetails with Harry's passions and is a great way to exploit their contacts and name.

Indeed. This is the whole Producer job description: line up your friends like Nacho to participate, and get some other rich polo people to help finance it. And that's what the Sussexes are, producers.

Has she ever produced anything that wasn't about herself?

Sure. Cookie Queens, which is coming to theaters this summer. They have a few projects in development, like Meet Me at the Lake and another movie or streamer project I'm not recalling, that have nothing to do with either of the Sussexes as personalities.

Try harder, hater.

I guess Netflix is a bunch of haters too as they keep canceling her shows. Try harder, PR person.

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Keep reading the thread, palace PR people (or trolls, if that's what you are).

Saying it's about "her" shows is rich because you're blaming Meghan for Harry's polo documentary. Misogynoir much? And Netflix has several projects currently under development with the Sussexes, including the polo drama that's the topic of this thread.

If you don't like the topic then stop coming in here. It's really that simple.

No, I don't like misogynoir. Keep pretending you don't know the difference. It really is that simple.

Eh, there were literally hundreds of pages of people hating on the Danes and Van Der Beek widows recently. People don't like rich celebs who try to garner too much sympathy. Maybe Meghan and Harry can back themselves out of that label over time.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd watch a waterpolo or hockey drama before a polo one. Why? Because those guys are great-looking and we've watched them for decades in the Olympics or professional teams. I think Harry is limiting himself by focusing on his passion. Ted Lasso worked because he was a regular American coach who went to Britain to coach their players. You had British culture and its people to enjoy. Rich, elitist Florida? Please. Take us to Europe and then you've got something special.

Polo players come from everywhere in the world and travel all over it to play. You're right, the writers should work games abroad into the plot.

No they really don't. Under 25,000 people play polo in the ENTIRE world and only around 5,000 at most in the entire world. More people are playing that Harry Potter Quidditch game . There are well over a million people who play water polo.

Another reason why a show like this will never work is that filming anything to do with horses is terribly expensive. And polo horses? Even more expensive. Now add to that you can whip horses in polo and they can get inadvertently hit by mallets and balls. That isn't going to play well now.

Isn't exclusivity the whole point? I was in Santiago, Chile, recently, and we decided to splurge and go to one of the city's best restaurants. There were polo grounds right next door.

Someone keeps posting that people have to play a sport, do a thing, to be interested in watching it, and that's just not right. What matters is the drama, the acting, and yes, the potential for sweaty, naked athletes. As several here have pointed out, millions of folks who didn't like hockey and/or weren't gay watched Heated Rivalry.

Netflix is never going to give this a big enough budget to do all of that. It's moving to low budget dumbed down shows because they know people aren't paying attention and scrolling while watching anyway.

Enough budget to do all what? Show some hot actor removing his polo jersey to reveal rock hard abs while contemplating whether he should marry the Danish princess his parents have chosen for him or the bohemian daughter of a painter he met in boarding school against their wishes? That's not expensive.

The most expensive part of the show would be the horses and filming the actual polo, but I think that's why Harry's involvement (and likely that of his friend Nacho Figueras who is considered a superstar of the polo world) is so useful -- there may be ways to defray these costs by partnering with a facility like Wellington NPC in Florida, and with a polo association, and providing them with free product placement to help boost the sport. Harry and Nacho are literally the *perfect* people to negotiate a deal like that, they are very well respected and appreciated within the polo community. I suspect the Polo documentary was a way of testing the waters for something like this.

I do assume the show will be dumbed down schlock, not some high minded drama. But there's real potential here.

LOL, this. They won't have to pay to enter polo clubs. They don't need the top ponies in the business; instead, they could buy (or even borrow, if Harry and Nacho have those contacts?) second-string or retired ponies and film those. They will have to pay actors who know how to ride and maybe how to play polo, but even that could probably be faked with good camera work.

This won't be about paying Nacho himself to ride his own pony in an actual match. Nobody watching will know the difference.

Basically, they just need to place a whole bunch of telephoto lenses around the grounds, take a lot of film footage of hot guys on ponies, and pick the best moments.

They could have done that with the polo documentary that nobody watched. So it's like, let's take a topic that nobody was interested in the first time and do another one! You would think you would build on the success of the previous project that was a sleeper hit. But, alas, no. That's not the case. Weird that someone started this thread right out of the gate to shut down any conversation. Too bad it's not working.

If you don't understand the difference between a documentary and a drama involving hot, naked actors (see: Heated Rivalry), it's hard to help you.

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Anonymous wrote:This actually looks good. I found some of their other content a bit boring.

OP here and I agree, I actually fell asleep during the lifestyle show, although I thought it was harmless and just someone else's cup of tea

I mainly wanted to counter the narrative some post here, that Harry and Meghan are broke failures because Netflix hates them, or something something. This polo drama with Netflix looks fun.

Yeah, sounds promising. Netflix only cut ties with the lifestyle show and the As Ever collaboration, that's all.

And that was the plan all along. They were really only helping her launch the brand with the show due to the partnership between them for Netflix content.

Always much ado about nothing with Harry & Meghan. They've made some PR missteps but they are certainly not the monsters people make them out to be.

Ted Sarandos unfollowing As Ever and Meghan definitely was not nothing. He follows plenty of Netflix talent, could simply have left the "follows" in place.

Something doesn’t add up here. I think it’s fake news. Probably to save face.

The only relevant thing here is that Netflix has several projects in production with Meghan and Harry--despite what the hater outlets were saying just a few days ago. Calling this news "fake" just makes you look dumb. Obviously, Sarandos doesn't actually hate Harry or Meghan. And it's a fool's errand to speculate about whether Sarandos is lukewarm, hates, or loves Meghan, based on what someone's hairdresser's cousin who parked near the Netflix parking lot told Variety. Puhleez. And this weird speculation about who Sarandos follows (and he never followed Meghan) is just whinging from sore losers.

I just find this all very strange. I'm not necessarily a hater, but I can't figure out what value add these to have for a fictional scripted series. Are they actually going to do anything real? It sounds like Netflix has script writers and other folks who will actually do most of the work. What will Harry and Meagan do? Does Netflix simply get a bigger audience of their names are attached to the projects?

They will do what other celeb producers do when the produce television shows. They will use their network and their celebrity to help secure financing and get talent on board. This one makes particular sense because Harry is very involved in the polo world. One of his best friends, Nacho Figueras, is a professional Argentinian polo player -- Figueras already worked with Harry on the polo documentary that his production company came out with a couple years ago. I would assume Figueras is involved in the scripted series too. Harry is a member of the Santa Barbara polo club and continues to compete in charity matches regularly. Harry also has good relationships with a lot of sports organizations because of his Invictus work.

This honestly makes more sense than Meghan selling jam. It perfectly dovetails with Harry's passions and is a great way to exploit their contacts and name.

Indeed. This is the whole Producer job description: line up your friends like Nacho to participate, and get some other rich polo people to help finance it. And that's what the Sussexes are, producers.

Has she ever produced anything that wasn't about herself?

Sure. Cookie Queens, which is coming to theaters this summer. They have a few projects in development, like Meet Me at the Lake and another movie or streamer project I'm not recalling, that have nothing to do with either of the Sussexes as personalities.

Try harder, hater.

I guess Netflix is a bunch of haters too as they keep canceling her shows. Try harder, PR person.

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Keep reading the thread, palace PR people (or trolls, if that's what you are).

Saying it's about "her" shows is rich because you're blaming Meghan for Harry's polo documentary. Misogynoir much? And Netflix has several projects currently under development with the Sussexes, including the polo drama that's the topic of this thread.

If you don't like the topic then stop coming in here. It's really that simple.

No, I don't like misogynoir. Keep pretending you don't know the difference. It really is that simple.

Eh, there were literally hundreds of pages of people hating on the Danes and Van Der Beek widows recently. People don't like rich celebs who try to garner too much sympathy. Maybe Meghan and Harry can back themselves out of that label over time.

We all know privilege isn't the problem. The problem is that Meghan stole your prince, then the pair responded to horrific tabloid and palace bullying by leaving Britain, and 7 years later they are successfully earning their own living despite all predictions to the contrary. This latest polo drama being an example of that.

Keep crying.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd watch a waterpolo or hockey drama before a polo one. Why? Because those guys are great-looking and we've watched them for decades in the Olympics or professional teams. I think Harry is limiting himself by focusing on his passion. Ted Lasso worked because he was a regular American coach who went to Britain to coach their players. You had British culture and its people to enjoy. Rich, elitist Florida? Please. Take us to Europe and then you've got something special.

Polo players come from everywhere in the world and travel all over it to play. You're right, the writers should work games abroad into the plot.

No they really don't. Under 25,000 people play polo in the ENTIRE world and only around 5,000 at most in the entire world. More people are playing that Harry Potter Quidditch game . There are well over a million people who play water polo.

Another reason why a show like this will never work is that filming anything to do with horses is terribly expensive. And polo horses? Even more expensive. Now add to that you can whip horses in polo and they can get inadvertently hit by mallets and balls. That isn't going to play well now.

Isn't exclusivity the whole point? I was in Santiago, Chile, recently, and we decided to splurge and go to one of the city's best restaurants. There were polo grounds right next door.

Someone keeps posting that people have to play a sport, do a thing, to be interested in watching it, and that's just not right. What matters is the drama, the acting, and yes, the potential for sweaty, naked athletes. As several here have pointed out, millions of folks who didn't like hockey and/or weren't gay watched Heated Rivalry.

Netflix is never going to give this a big enough budget to do all of that. It's moving to low budget dumbed down shows because they know people aren't paying attention and scrolling while watching anyway.

Enough budget to do all what? Show some hot actor removing his polo jersey to reveal rock hard abs while contemplating whether he should marry the Danish princess his parents have chosen for him or the bohemian daughter of a painter he met in boarding school against their wishes? That's not expensive.

The most expensive part of the show would be the horses and filming the actual polo, but I think that's why Harry's involvement (and likely that of his friend Nacho Figueras who is considered a superstar of the polo world) is so useful -- there may be ways to defray these costs by partnering with a facility like Wellington NPC in Florida, and with a polo association, and providing them with free product placement to help boost the sport. Harry and Nacho are literally the *perfect* people to negotiate a deal like that, they are very well respected and appreciated within the polo community. I suspect the Polo documentary was a way of testing the waters for something like this.

I do assume the show will be dumbed down schlock, not some high minded drama. But there's real potential here.

LOL, this. They won't have to pay to enter polo clubs. They don't need the top ponies in the business; instead, they could buy (or even borrow, if Harry and Nacho have those contacts?) second-string or retired ponies and film those. They will have to pay actors who know how to ride and maybe how to play polo, but even that could probably be faked with good camera work.

This won't be about paying Nacho himself to ride his own pony in an actual match. Nobody watching will know the difference.

Basically, they just need to place a whole bunch of telephoto lenses around the grounds, take a lot of film footage of hot guys on ponies, and pick the best moments.

They could have done that with the polo documentary that nobody watched. So it's like, let's take a topic that nobody was interested in the first time and do another one! You would think you would build on the success of the previous project that was a sleeper hit. But, alas, no. That's not the case. Weird that someone started this thread right out of the gate to shut down any conversation. Too bad it's not working.

If you don't understand the difference between a documentary and a drama involving hot, naked actors (see: Heated Rivalry), it's hard to help you.

How hard up are you? I guess you're looking for soft core porn. That would be quite a departure from the Sussex brand but keep hoping.

At this point you're just trolling. You know the Sussexes' polo drama has a lot of potential if done right, or it could bomb, and none of us knows. There's actually little more to say. But you keep going and going, because you just hate that the Sussexes are proving your worst predictions wrong by continuing to work with Netflix. So you're back again, and now you're implying Heated Rivalry was bad because it was soft porn (which it was), or something something.

Find another hobby that doesn't involve misogynoir.

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Anonymous wrote:This actually looks good. I found some of their other content a bit boring.

OP here and I agree, I actually fell asleep during the lifestyle show, although I thought it was harmless and just someone else's cup of tea

I mainly wanted to counter the narrative some post here, that Harry and Meghan are broke failures because Netflix hates them, or something something. This polo drama with Netflix looks fun.

Yeah, sounds promising. Netflix only cut ties with the lifestyle show and the As Ever collaboration, that's all.

And that was the plan all along. They were really only helping her launch the brand with the show due to the partnership between them for Netflix content.

Always much ado about nothing with Harry & Meghan. They've made some PR missteps but they are certainly not the monsters people make them out to be.

Ted Sarandos unfollowing As Ever and Meghan definitely was not nothing. He follows plenty of Netflix talent, could simply have left the "follows" in place.

Something doesn’t add up here. I think it’s fake news. Probably to save face.

The only relevant thing here is that Netflix has several projects in production with Meghan and Harry--despite what the hater outlets were saying just a few days ago. Calling this news "fake" just makes you look dumb. Obviously, Sarandos doesn't actually hate Harry or Meghan. And it's a fool's errand to speculate about whether Sarandos is lukewarm, hates, or loves Meghan, based on what someone's hairdresser's cousin who parked near the Netflix parking lot told Variety. Puhleez. And this weird speculation about who Sarandos follows (and he never followed Meghan) is just whinging from sore losers.

I just find this all very strange. I'm not necessarily a hater, but I can't figure out what value add these to have for a fictional scripted series. Are they actually going to do anything real? It sounds like Netflix has script writers and other folks who will actually do most of the work. What will Harry and Meagan do? Does Netflix simply get a bigger audience of their names are attached to the projects?

They will do what other celeb producers do when the produce television shows. They will use their network and their celebrity to help secure financing and get talent on board. This one makes particular sense because Harry is very involved in the polo world. One of his best friends, Nacho Figueras, is a professional Argentinian polo player -- Figueras already worked with Harry on the polo documentary that his production company came out with a couple years ago. I would assume Figueras is involved in the scripted series too. Harry is a member of the Santa Barbara polo club and continues to compete in charity matches regularly. Harry also has good relationships with a lot of sports organizations because of his Invictus work.

This honestly makes more sense than Meghan selling jam. It perfectly dovetails with Harry's passions and is a great way to exploit their contacts and name.

Indeed. This is the whole Producer job description: line up your friends like Nacho to participate, and get some other rich polo people to help finance it. And that's what the Sussexes are, producers.

Has she ever produced anything that wasn't about herself?

Sure. Cookie Queens, which is coming to theaters this summer. They have a few projects in development, like Meet Me at the Lake and another movie or streamer project I'm not recalling, that have nothing to do with either of the Sussexes as personalities.

Try harder, hater.

I guess Netflix is a bunch of haters too as they keep canceling her shows. Try harder, PR person.

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Keep reading the thread, palace PR people (or trolls, if that's what you are).

Saying it's about "her" shows is rich because you're blaming Meghan for Harry's polo documentary. Misogynoir much? And Netflix has several projects currently under development with the Sussexes, including the polo drama that's the topic of this thread.

If you don't like the topic then stop coming in here. It's really that simple.

No, I don't like misogynoir. Keep pretending you don't know the difference. It really is that simple.

Eh, there were literally hundreds of pages of people hating on the Danes and Van Der Beek widows recently. People don't like rich celebs who try to garner too much sympathy. Maybe Meghan and Harry can back themselves out of that label over time.

We all know privilege isn't the problem. The problem is that Meghan stole your prince, then the pair responded to horrific tabloid and palace bullying by leaving Britain, and 7 years later they are successfully earning their own living despite all predictions to the contrary. This latest polo drama being an example of that.

Keep crying.

I don't think most people care too much about Harry. And nobody believes he's contributing much to any television shows. He is barely literate.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd watch a waterpolo or hockey drama before a polo one. Why? Because those guys are great-looking and we've watched them for decades in the Olympics or professional teams. I think Harry is limiting himself by focusing on his passion. Ted Lasso worked because he was a regular American coach who went to Britain to coach their players. You had British culture and its people to enjoy. Rich, elitist Florida? Please. Take us to Europe and then you've got something special.

Polo players come from everywhere in the world and travel all over it to play. You're right, the writers should work games abroad into the plot.

No they really don't. Under 25,000 people play polo in the ENTIRE world and only around 5,000 at most in the entire world. More people are playing that Harry Potter Quidditch game . There are well over a million people who play water polo.

Another reason why a show like this will never work is that filming anything to do with horses is terribly expensive. And polo horses? Even more expensive. Now add to that you can whip horses in polo and they can get inadvertently hit by mallets and balls. That isn't going to play well now.

Isn't exclusivity the whole point? I was in Santiago, Chile, recently, and we decided to splurge and go to one of the city's best restaurants. There were polo grounds right next door.

Someone keeps posting that people have to play a sport, do a thing, to be interested in watching it, and that's just not right. What matters is the drama, the acting, and yes, the potential for sweaty, naked athletes. As several here have pointed out, millions of folks who didn't like hockey and/or weren't gay watched Heated Rivalry.

Netflix is never going to give this a big enough budget to do all of that. It's moving to low budget dumbed down shows because they know people aren't paying attention and scrolling while watching anyway.

Enough budget to do all what? Show some hot actor removing his polo jersey to reveal rock hard abs while contemplating whether he should marry the Danish princess his parents have chosen for him or the bohemian daughter of a painter he met in boarding school against their wishes? That's not expensive.

The most expensive part of the show would be the horses and filming the actual polo, but I think that's why Harry's involvement (and likely that of his friend Nacho Figueras who is considered a superstar of the polo world) is so useful -- there may be ways to defray these costs by partnering with a facility like Wellington NPC in Florida, and with a polo association, and providing them with free product placement to help boost the sport. Harry and Nacho are literally the *perfect* people to negotiate a deal like that, they are very well respected and appreciated within the polo community. I suspect the Polo documentary was a way of testing the waters for something like this.

I do assume the show will be dumbed down schlock, not some high minded drama. But there's real potential here.

LOL, this. They won't have to pay to enter polo clubs. They don't need the top ponies in the business; instead, they could buy (or even borrow, if Harry and Nacho have those contacts?) second-string or retired ponies and film those. They will have to pay actors who know how to ride and maybe how to play polo, but even that could probably be faked with good camera work.

This won't be about paying Nacho himself to ride his own pony in an actual match. Nobody watching will know the difference.

Basically, they just need to place a whole bunch of telephoto lenses around the grounds, take a lot of film footage of hot guys on ponies, and pick the best moments.

They could have done that with the polo documentary that nobody watched. So it's like, let's take a topic that nobody was interested in the first time and do another one! You would think you would build on the success of the previous project that was a sleeper hit. But, alas, no. That's not the case. Weird that someone started this thread right out of the gate to shut down any conversation. Too bad it's not working.

Well, no, because that was a documentary so they were portraying actual polo players and matches. Though FWIW I don't think that documentary was expensive to make at all, which is why I don't think it "flopped." Docs almost never hit the same streaming numbers as scripted shows. I would be curious to know if views of the polo documentary spike if/when the polo show comes out. Netflix loves stuff like that -- having content ready to go for when people finish a more popular show. I suspect that was a major part of the appeal of As Ever -- it was an easy suggestion for people to watch after catching up on British Bake-Off or one of their other cooking shows. They even loaded it with other Netflix talent like Mindy Kaling, Roy Choi, and Tan France, to facilitate this process.

People rolling from one Netflix show to the next is what keeps the subscription dollars rolling in. It doesn't matter if people love the next show as much as the first, as long as they like it enough to keep watching. That's why Netflix acquired Victoria (the PBS series about young Queen Victoria) late last year -- they knew it would be an easy suggestion for viewers when they watched the new season of Bridgerton, or to keep them engaged between installments. This is a huge part of their business model.

So Harry and Megan producing content that has appeal connected to other existing content is useful to Netflix even if the shows they produce are only so-so. Keep in mind that as a streamer, they don't need to worry about ratings in the traditional sense, and the shows they own completely and don't have to license (which includes all their H&M content) can stay on the platform forever. So if the polo scripted series is good enough to get people to watch to the end, then they can offer the polo documentary (which might suddenly be more interesting to someone who is now a bit more education on the polo world). Then they can offer the episode of Megan's show featuring Delfina, Nacho Figueroa's wife. They can even offer the original H&M documentary. You just need a little link from one thing to the next, enough to keep people engaged and subscribed.

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I would watch a reality TV show about Harry & Meghan doing things that are very unroyal while saying good riddance to the monarchy.

I would watch a spicy polo documentary.

I would even watch a reality tv show idea that came up earlier in this thread about Meghan collaborating with the Yellowstone producer.

All of her content right now is so off-putting. It's supposed to be entertainment, not uninteresting messaging.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd watch a waterpolo or hockey drama before a polo one. Why? Because those guys are great-looking and we've watched them for decades in the Olympics or professional teams. I think Harry is limiting himself by focusing on his passion. Ted Lasso worked because he was a regular American coach who went to Britain to coach their players. You had British culture and its people to enjoy. Rich, elitist Florida? Please. Take us to Europe and then you've got something special.

Polo players come from everywhere in the world and travel all over it to play. You're right, the writers should work games abroad into the plot.

No they really don't. Under 25,000 people play polo in the ENTIRE world and only around 5,000 at most in the entire world. More people are playing that Harry Potter Quidditch game . There are well over a million people who play water polo.

Another reason why a show like this will never work is that filming anything to do with horses is terribly expensive. And polo horses? Even more expensive. Now add to that you can whip horses in polo and they can get inadvertently hit by mallets and balls. That isn't going to play well now.

Isn't exclusivity the whole point? I was in Santiago, Chile, recently, and we decided to splurge and go to one of the city's best restaurants. There were polo grounds right next door.

Someone keeps posting that people have to play a sport, do a thing, to be interested in watching it, and that's just not right. What matters is the drama, the acting, and yes, the potential for sweaty, naked athletes. As several here have pointed out, millions of folks who didn't like hockey and/or weren't gay watched Heated Rivalry.

Netflix is never going to give this a big enough budget to do all of that. It's moving to low budget dumbed down shows because they know people aren't paying attention and scrolling while watching anyway.

Enough budget to do all what? Show some hot actor removing his polo jersey to reveal rock hard abs while contemplating whether he should marry the Danish princess his parents have chosen for him or the bohemian daughter of a painter he met in boarding school against their wishes? That's not expensive.

The most expensive part of the show would be the horses and filming the actual polo, but I think that's why Harry's involvement (and likely that of his friend Nacho Figueras who is considered a superstar of the polo world) is so useful -- there may be ways to defray these costs by partnering with a facility like Wellington NPC in Florida, and with a polo association, and providing them with free product placement to help boost the sport. Harry and Nacho are literally the *perfect* people to negotiate a deal like that, they are very well respected and appreciated within the polo community. I suspect the Polo documentary was a way of testing the waters for something like this.

I do assume the show will be dumbed down schlock, not some high minded drama. But there's real potential here.

LOL, this. They won't have to pay to enter polo clubs. They don't need the top ponies in the business; instead, they could buy (or even borrow, if Harry and Nacho have those contacts?) second-string or retired ponies and film those. They will have to pay actors who know how to ride and maybe how to play polo, but even that could probably be faked with good camera work.

This won't be about paying Nacho himself to ride his own pony in an actual match. Nobody watching will know the difference.

Basically, they just need to place a whole bunch of telephoto lenses around the grounds, take a lot of film footage of hot guys on ponies, and pick the best moments.

They could have done that with the polo documentary that nobody watched. So it's like, let's take a topic that nobody was interested in the first time and do another one! You would think you would build on the success of the previous project that was a sleeper hit. But, alas, no. That's not the case. Weird that someone started this thread right out of the gate to shut down any conversation. Too bad it's not working.

Well, no, because that was a documentary so they were portraying actual polo players and matches. Though FWIW I don't think that documentary was expensive to make at all, which is why I don't think it "flopped." Docs almost never hit the same streaming numbers as scripted shows. I would be curious to know if views of the polo documentary spike if/when the polo show comes out. Netflix loves stuff like that -- having content ready to go for when people finish a more popular show. I suspect that was a major part of the appeal of As Ever -- it was an easy suggestion for people to watch after catching up on British Bake-Off or one of their other cooking shows. They even loaded it with other Netflix talent like Mindy Kaling, Roy Choi, and Tan France, to facilitate this process.

People rolling from one Netflix show to the next is what keeps the subscription dollars rolling in. It doesn't matter if people love the next show as much as the first, as long as they like it enough to keep watching. That's why Netflix acquired Victoria (the PBS series about young Queen Victoria) late last year -- they knew it would be an easy suggestion for viewers when they watched the new season of Bridgerton, or to keep them engaged between installments. This is a huge part of their business model.

So Harry and Megan producing content that has appeal connected to other existing content is useful to Netflix even if the shows they produce are only so-so. Keep in mind that as a streamer, they don't need to worry about ratings in the traditional sense, and the shows they own completely and don't have to license (which includes all their H&M content) can stay on the platform forever. So if the polo scripted series is good enough to get people to watch to the end, then they can offer the polo documentary (which might suddenly be more interesting to someone who is now a bit more education on the polo world). Then they can offer the episode of Megan's show featuring Delfina, Nacho Figueroa's wife. They can even offer the original H&M documentary. You just need a little link from one thing to the next, enough to keep people engaged and subscribed.

I'll believe it when I see it. I haven't watched anything on Netflix in a long time, better things on elsewhere. Paramount +, Prime, HBO Max are better.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd watch a waterpolo or hockey drama before a polo one. Why? Because those guys are great-looking and we've watched them for decades in the Olympics or professional teams. I think Harry is limiting himself by focusing on his passion. Ted Lasso worked because he was a regular American coach who went to Britain to coach their players. You had British culture and its people to enjoy. Rich, elitist Florida? Please. Take us to Europe and then you've got something special.

Polo players come from everywhere in the world and travel all over it to play. You're right, the writers should work games abroad into the plot.

No they really don't. Under 25,000 people play polo in the ENTIRE world and only around 5,000 at most in the entire world. More people are playing that Harry Potter Quidditch game . There are well over a million people who play water polo.

Another reason why a show like this will never work is that filming anything to do with horses is terribly expensive. And polo horses? Even more expensive. Now add to that you can whip horses in polo and they can get inadvertently hit by mallets and balls. That isn't going to play well now.

Isn't exclusivity the whole point? I was in Santiago, Chile, recently, and we decided to splurge and go to one of the city's best restaurants. There were polo grounds right next door.

Someone keeps posting that people have to play a sport, do a thing, to be interested in watching it, and that's just not right. What matters is the drama, the acting, and yes, the potential for sweaty, naked athletes. As several here have pointed out, millions of folks who didn't like hockey and/or weren't gay watched Heated Rivalry.

Netflix is never going to give this a big enough budget to do all of that. It's moving to low budget dumbed down shows because they know people aren't paying attention and scrolling while watching anyway.

Enough budget to do all what? Show some hot actor removing his polo jersey to reveal rock hard abs while contemplating whether he should marry the Danish princess his parents have chosen for him or the bohemian daughter of a painter he met in boarding school against their wishes? That's not expensive.

The most expensive part of the show would be the horses and filming the actual polo, but I think that's why Harry's involvement (and likely that of his friend Nacho Figueras who is considered a superstar of the polo world) is so useful -- there may be ways to defray these costs by partnering with a facility like Wellington NPC in Florida, and with a polo association, and providing them with free product placement to help boost the sport. Harry and Nacho are literally the *perfect* people to negotiate a deal like that, they are very well respected and appreciated within the polo community. I suspect the Polo documentary was a way of testing the waters for something like this.

I do assume the show will be dumbed down schlock, not some high minded drama. But there's real potential here.

LOL, this. They won't have to pay to enter polo clubs. They don't need the top ponies in the business; instead, they could buy (or even borrow, if Harry and Nacho have those contacts?) second-string or retired ponies and film those. They will have to pay actors who know how to ride and maybe how to play polo, but even that could probably be faked with good camera work.

This won't be about paying Nacho himself to ride his own pony in an actual match. Nobody watching will know the difference.

Basically, they just need to place a whole bunch of telephoto lenses around the grounds, take a lot of film footage of hot guys on ponies, and pick the best moments.

They could have done that with the polo documentary that nobody watched. So it's like, let's take a topic that nobody was interested in the first time and do another one! You would think you would build on the success of the previous project that was a sleeper hit. But, alas, no. That's not the case. Weird that someone started this thread right out of the gate to shut down any conversation. Too bad it's not working.

Well, no, because that was a documentary so they were portraying actual polo players and matches. Though FWIW I don't think that documentary was expensive to make at all, which is why I don't think it "flopped." Docs almost never hit the same streaming numbers as scripted shows. I would be curious to know if views of the polo documentary spike if/when the polo show comes out. Netflix loves stuff like that -- having content ready to go for when people finish a more popular show. I suspect that was a major part of the appeal of As Ever -- it was an easy suggestion for people to watch after catching up on British Bake-Off or one of their other cooking shows. They even loaded it with other Netflix talent like Mindy Kaling, Roy Choi, and Tan France, to facilitate this process.

People rolling from one Netflix show to the next is what keeps the subscription dollars rolling in. It doesn't matter if people love the next show as much as the first, as long as they like it enough to keep watching. That's why Netflix acquired Victoria (the PBS series about young Queen Victoria) late last year -- they knew it would be an easy suggestion for viewers when they watched the new season of Bridgerton, or to keep them engaged between installments. This is a huge part of their business model.

So Harry and Megan producing content that has appeal connected to other existing content is useful to Netflix even if the shows they produce are only so-so. Keep in mind that as a streamer, they don't need to worry about ratings in the traditional sense, and the shows they own completely and don't have to license (which includes all their H&M content) can stay on the platform forever. So if the polo scripted series is good enough to get people to watch to the end, then they can offer the polo documentary (which might suddenly be more interesting to someone who is now a bit more education on the polo world). Then they can offer the episode of Megan's show featuring Delfina, Nacho Figueroa's wife. They can even offer the original H&M documentary. You just need a little link from one thing to the next, enough to keep people engaged and subscribed.

I'll believe it when I see it. I haven't watched anything on Netflix in a long time, better things on elsewhere. Paramount +, Prime, HBO Max are better.

If you don't watch Netflix, why would you feel confident that you understand their programming strategies.

I also think it's funny that people keep bringing up Paramount and Taylor Sheridan as some benchmark for quality. I'm sorry if you like them, but Taylor Sheridan shows are hot garbage. It's cheesy writing with bad acting but they get big name, likable actors to do it and then the production values are high. My parents freaking love his shows, but I can't watch them. It's corny. I'm glad people who enjoy that stuff have lots of content to watch, but it's not for everyone and I definitely don't want Taylor Sheridan making all entertainment. Ugh.

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Anonymous wrote:This actually looks good. I found some of their other content a bit boring.

OP here and I agree, I actually fell asleep during the lifestyle show, although I thought it was harmless and just someone else's cup of tea

I mainly wanted to counter the narrative some post here, that Harry and Meghan are broke failures because Netflix hates them, or something something. This polo drama with Netflix looks fun.

Yeah, sounds promising. Netflix only cut ties with the lifestyle show and the As Ever collaboration, that's all.

And that was the plan all along. They were really only helping her launch the brand with the show due to the partnership between them for Netflix content.

Always much ado about nothing with Harry & Meghan. They've made some PR missteps but they are certainly not the monsters people make them out to be.

Ted Sarandos unfollowing As Ever and Meghan definitely was not nothing. He follows plenty of Netflix talent, could simply have left the "follows" in place.

Something doesn’t add up here. I think it’s fake news. Probably to save face.

The only relevant thing here is that Netflix has several projects in production with Meghan and Harry--despite what the hater outlets were saying just a few days ago. Calling this news "fake" just makes you look dumb. Obviously, Sarandos doesn't actually hate Harry or Meghan. And it's a fool's errand to speculate about whether Sarandos is lukewarm, hates, or loves Meghan, based on what someone's hairdresser's cousin who parked near the Netflix parking lot told Variety. Puhleez. And this weird speculation about who Sarandos follows (and he never followed Meghan) is just whinging from sore losers.

I just find this all very strange. I'm not necessarily a hater, but I can't figure out what value add these to have for a fictional scripted series. Are they actually going to do anything real? It sounds like Netflix has script writers and other folks who will actually do most of the work. What will Harry and Meagan do? Does Netflix simply get a bigger audience of their names are attached to the projects?

They will do what other celeb producers do when the produce television shows. They will use their network and their celebrity to help secure financing and get talent on board. This one makes particular sense because Harry is very involved in the polo world. One of his best friends, Nacho Figueras, is a professional Argentinian polo player -- Figueras already worked with Harry on the polo documentary that his production company came out with a couple years ago. I would assume Figueras is involved in the scripted series too. Harry is a member of the Santa Barbara polo club and continues to compete in charity matches regularly. Harry also has good relationships with a lot of sports organizations because of his Invictus work.

This honestly makes more sense than Meghan selling jam. It perfectly dovetails with Harry's passions and is a great way to exploit their contacts and name.

Indeed. This is the whole Producer job description: line up your friends like Nacho to participate, and get some other rich polo people to help finance it. And that's what the Sussexes are, producers.

Has she ever produced anything that wasn't about herself?

Sure. Cookie Queens, which is coming to theaters this summer. They have a few projects in development, like Meet Me at the Lake and another movie or streamer project I'm not recalling, that have nothing to do with either of the Sussexes as personalities.

Try harder, hater.

I guess Netflix is a bunch of haters too as they keep canceling her shows. Try harder, PR person.

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Keep reading the thread, palace PR people (or trolls, if that's what you are).

Saying it's about "her" shows is rich because you're blaming Meghan for Harry's polo documentary. Misogynoir much? And Netflix has several projects currently under development with the Sussexes, including the polo drama that's the topic of this thread.

If you don't like the topic then stop coming in here. It's really that simple.

No, I don't like misogynoir. Keep pretending you don't know the difference. It really is that simple.

Eh, there were literally hundreds of pages of people hating on the Danes and Van Der Beek widows recently. People don't like rich celebs who try to garner too much sympathy. Maybe Meghan and Harry can back themselves out of that label over time.

We all know privilege isn't the problem. The problem is that Meghan stole your prince, then the pair responded to horrific tabloid and palace bullying by leaving Britain, and 7 years later they are successfully earning their own living despite all predictions to the contrary. This latest polo drama being an example of that.

Keep crying.

I don't think most people care too much about Harry. And nobody believes he's contributing much to any television shows. He is barely literate.

Well good thing Harry won't be acting in this new polo drama, then.

Seriously, troll. You need to come up with material that makes sense.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd watch a waterpolo or hockey drama before a polo one. Why? Because those guys are great-looking and we've watched them for decades in the Olympics or professional teams. I think Harry is limiting himself by focusing on his passion. Ted Lasso worked because he was a regular American coach who went to Britain to coach their players. You had British culture and its people to enjoy. Rich, elitist Florida? Please. Take us to Europe and then you've got something special.

Polo players come from everywhere in the world and travel all over it to play. You're right, the writers should work games abroad into the plot.

No they really don't. Under 25,000 people play polo in the ENTIRE world and only around 5,000 at most in the entire world. More people are playing that Harry Potter Quidditch game . There are well over a million people who play water polo.

Another reason why a show like this will never work is that filming anything to do with horses is terribly expensive. And polo horses? Even more expensive. Now add to that you can whip horses in polo and they can get inadvertently hit by mallets and balls. That isn't going to play well now.

Isn't exclusivity the whole point? I was in Santiago, Chile, recently, and we decided to splurge and go to one of the city's best restaurants. There were polo grounds right next door.

Someone keeps posting that people have to play a sport, do a thing, to be interested in watching it, and that's just not right. What matters is the drama, the acting, and yes, the potential for sweaty, naked athletes. As several here have pointed out, millions of folks who didn't like hockey and/or weren't gay watched Heated Rivalry.

Netflix is never going to give this a big enough budget to do all of that. It's moving to low budget dumbed down shows because they know people aren't paying attention and scrolling while watching anyway.

Enough budget to do all what? Show some hot actor removing his polo jersey to reveal rock hard abs while contemplating whether he should marry the Danish princess his parents have chosen for him or the bohemian daughter of a painter he met in boarding school against their wishes? That's not expensive.

The most expensive part of the show would be the horses and filming the actual polo, but I think that's why Harry's involvement (and likely that of his friend Nacho Figueras who is considered a superstar of the polo world) is so useful -- there may be ways to defray these costs by partnering with a facility like Wellington NPC in Florida, and with a polo association, and providing them with free product placement to help boost the sport. Harry and Nacho are literally the *perfect* people to negotiate a deal like that, they are very well respected and appreciated within the polo community. I suspect the Polo documentary was a way of testing the waters for something like this.

I do assume the show will be dumbed down schlock, not some high minded drama. But there's real potential here.

LOL, this. They won't have to pay to enter polo clubs. They don't need the top ponies in the business; instead, they could buy (or even borrow, if Harry and Nacho have those contacts?) second-string or retired ponies and film those. They will have to pay actors who know how to ride and maybe how to play polo, but even that could probably be faked with good camera work.

This won't be about paying Nacho himself to ride his own pony in an actual match. Nobody watching will know the difference.

Basically, they just need to place a whole bunch of telephoto lenses around the grounds, take a lot of film footage of hot guys on ponies, and pick the best moments.

They could have done that with the polo documentary that nobody watched. So it's like, let's take a topic that nobody was interested in the first time and do another one! You would think you would build on the success of the previous project that was a sleeper hit. But, alas, no. That's not the case. Weird that someone started this thread right out of the gate to shut down any conversation. Too bad it's not working.

Well, no, because that was a documentary so they were portraying actual polo players and matches. Though FWIW I don't think that documentary was expensive to make at all, which is why I don't think it "flopped." Docs almost never hit the same streaming numbers as scripted shows. I would be curious to know if views of the polo documentary spike if/when the polo show comes out. Netflix loves stuff like that -- having content ready to go for when people finish a more popular show. I suspect that was a major part of the appeal of As Ever -- it was an easy suggestion for people to watch after catching up on British Bake-Off or one of their other cooking shows. They even loaded it with other Netflix talent like Mindy Kaling, Roy Choi, and Tan France, to facilitate this process.

People rolling from one Netflix show to the next is what keeps the subscription dollars rolling in. It doesn't matter if people love the next show as much as the first, as long as they like it enough to keep watching. That's why Netflix acquired Victoria (the PBS series about young Queen Victoria) late last year -- they knew it would be an easy suggestion for viewers when they watched the new season of Bridgerton, or to keep them engaged between installments. This is a huge part of their business model.

So Harry and Megan producing content that has appeal connected to other existing content is useful to Netflix even if the shows they produce are only so-so. Keep in mind that as a streamer, they don't need to worry about ratings in the traditional sense, and the shows they own completely and don't have to license (which includes all their H&M content) can stay on the platform forever. So if the polo scripted series is good enough to get people to watch to the end, then they can offer the polo documentary (which might suddenly be more interesting to someone who is now a bit more education on the polo world). Then they can offer the episode of Megan's show featuring Delfina, Nacho Figueroa's wife. They can even offer the original H&M documentary. You just need a little link from one thing to the next, enough to keep people engaged and subscribed.

Thank you for some common sense about what Netflix actually expects and the polo drama could look like.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd watch a waterpolo or hockey drama before a polo one. Why? Because those guys are great-looking and we've watched them for decades in the Olympics or professional teams. I think Harry is limiting himself by focusing on his passion. Ted Lasso worked because he was a regular American coach who went to Britain to coach their players. You had British culture and its people to enjoy. Rich, elitist Florida? Please. Take us to Europe and then you've got something special.

Polo players come from everywhere in the world and travel all over it to play. You're right, the writers should work games abroad into the plot.

No they really don't. Under 25,000 people play polo in the ENTIRE world and only around 5,000 at most in the entire world. More people are playing that Harry Potter Quidditch game . There are well over a million people who play water polo.

Another reason why a show like this will never work is that filming anything to do with horses is terribly expensive. And polo horses? Even more expensive. Now add to that you can whip horses in polo and they can get inadvertently hit by mallets and balls. That isn't going to play well now.

Isn't exclusivity the whole point? I was in Santiago, Chile, recently, and we decided to splurge and go to one of the city's best restaurants. There were polo grounds right next door.

Someone keeps posting that people have to play a sport, do a thing, to be interested in watching it, and that's just not right. What matters is the drama, the acting, and yes, the potential for sweaty, naked athletes. As several here have pointed out, millions of folks who didn't like hockey and/or weren't gay watched Heated Rivalry.

Netflix is never going to give this a big enough budget to do all of that. It's moving to low budget dumbed down shows because they know people aren't paying attention and scrolling while watching anyway.

Enough budget to do all what? Show some hot actor removing his polo jersey to reveal rock hard abs while contemplating whether he should marry the Danish princess his parents have chosen for him or the bohemian daughter of a painter he met in boarding school against their wishes? That's not expensive.

The most expensive part of the show would be the horses and filming the actual polo, but I think that's why Harry's involvement (and likely that of his friend Nacho Figueras who is considered a superstar of the polo world) is so useful -- there may be ways to defray these costs by partnering with a facility like Wellington NPC in Florida, and with a polo association, and providing them with free product placement to help boost the sport. Harry and Nacho are literally the *perfect* people to negotiate a deal like that, they are very well respected and appreciated within the polo community. I suspect the Polo documentary was a way of testing the waters for something like this.

I do assume the show will be dumbed down schlock, not some high minded drama. But there's real potential here.

LOL, this. They won't have to pay to enter polo clubs. They don't need the top ponies in the business; instead, they could buy (or even borrow, if Harry and Nacho have those contacts?) second-string or retired ponies and film those. They will have to pay actors who know how to ride and maybe how to play polo, but even that could probably be faked with good camera work.

This won't be about paying Nacho himself to ride his own pony in an actual match. Nobody watching will know the difference.

Basically, they just need to place a whole bunch of telephoto lenses around the grounds, take a lot of film footage of hot guys on ponies, and pick the best moments.

They could have done that with the polo documentary that nobody watched. So it's like, let's take a topic that nobody was interested in the first time and do another one! You would think you would build on the success of the previous project that was a sleeper hit. But, alas, no. That's not the case. Weird that someone started this thread right out of the gate to shut down any conversation. Too bad it's not working.

Well, no, because that was a documentary so they were portraying actual polo players and matches. Though FWIW I don't think that documentary was expensive to make at all, which is why I don't think it "flopped." Docs almost never hit the same streaming numbers as scripted shows. I would be curious to know if views of the polo documentary spike if/when the polo show comes out. Netflix loves stuff like that -- having content ready to go for when people finish a more popular show. I suspect that was a major part of the appeal of As Ever -- it was an easy suggestion for people to watch after catching up on British Bake-Off or one of their other cooking shows. They even loaded it with other Netflix talent like Mindy Kaling, Roy Choi, and Tan France, to facilitate this process.

People rolling from one Netflix show to the next is what keeps the subscription dollars rolling in. It doesn't matter if people love the next show as much as the first, as long as they like it enough to keep watching. That's why Netflix acquired Victoria (the PBS series about young Queen Victoria) late last year -- they knew it would be an easy suggestion for viewers when they watched the new season of Bridgerton, or to keep them engaged between installments. This is a huge part of their business model.

So Harry and Megan producing content that has appeal connected to other existing content is useful to Netflix even if the shows they produce are only so-so. Keep in mind that as a streamer, they don't need to worry about ratings in the traditional sense, and the shows they own completely and don't have to license (which includes all their H&M content) can stay on the platform forever. So if the polo scripted series is good enough to get people to watch to the end, then they can offer the polo documentary (which might suddenly be more interesting to someone who is now a bit more education on the polo world). Then they can offer the episode of Megan's show featuring Delfina, Nacho Figueroa's wife. They can even offer the original H&M documentary. You just need a little link from one thing to the next, enough to keep people engaged and subscribed.

I'll believe it when I see it. I haven't watched anything on Netflix in a long time, better things on elsewhere. Paramount +, Prime, HBO Max are better.

If you don't watch Netflix, why would you feel confident that you understand their programming strategies.

I also think it's funny that people keep bringing up Paramount and Taylor Sheridan as some benchmark for quality. I'm sorry if you like them, but Taylor Sheridan shows are hot garbage. It's cheesy writing with bad acting but they get big name, likable actors to do it and then the production values are high. My parents freaking love his shows, but I can't watch them. It's corny. I'm glad people who enjoy that stuff have lots of content to watch, but it's not for everyone and I definitely don't want Taylor Sheridan making all entertainment. Ugh.

I'm not the pp who keeps mentioning Taylor Sheridan--but Paramount does NOT care if his shows are hot garbage. Millions of people who aren't snobs like you watch his show, and that's all that matters.

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OP here and I agree, I actually fell asleep during the lifestyle show, although I thought it was harmless and just someone else's cup of tea

I mainly wanted to counter the narrative some post here, that Harry and Meghan are broke failures because Netflix hates them, or something something. This polo drama with Netflix looks fun.

Yeah, sounds promising. Netflix only cut ties with the lifestyle show and the As Ever collaboration, that's all.

And that was the plan all along. They were really only helping her launch the brand with the show due to the partnership between them for Netflix content.

Always much ado about nothing with Harry & Meghan. They've made some PR missteps but they are certainly not the monsters people make them out to be.

Ted Sarandos unfollowing As Ever and Meghan definitely was not nothing. He follows plenty of Netflix talent, could simply have left the "follows" in place.

Something doesn’t add up here. I think it’s fake news. Probably to save face.

The only relevant thing here is that Netflix has several projects in production with Meghan and Harry--despite what the hater outlets were saying just a few days ago. Calling this news "fake" just makes you look dumb. Obviously, Sarandos doesn't actually hate Harry or Meghan. And it's a fool's errand to speculate about whether Sarandos is lukewarm, hates, or loves Meghan, based on what someone's hairdresser's cousin who parked near the Netflix parking lot told Variety. Puhleez. And this weird speculation about who Sarandos follows (and he never followed Meghan) is just whinging from sore losers.

I just find this all very strange. I'm not necessarily a hater, but I can't figure out what value add these to have for a fictional scripted series. Are they actually going to do anything real? It sounds like Netflix has script writers and other folks who will actually do most of the work. What will Harry and Meagan do? Does Netflix simply get a bigger audience of their names are attached to the projects?

They will do what other celeb producers do when the produce television shows. They will use their network and their celebrity to help secure financing and get talent on board. This one makes particular sense because Harry is very involved in the polo world. One of his best friends, Nacho Figueras, is a professional Argentinian polo player -- Figueras already worked with Harry on the polo documentary that his production company came out with a couple years ago. I would assume Figueras is involved in the scripted series too. Harry is a member of the Santa Barbara polo club and continues to compete in charity matches regularly. Harry also has good relationships with a lot of sports organizations because of his Invictus work.

This honestly makes more sense than Meghan selling jam. It perfectly dovetails with Harry's passions and is a great way to exploit their contacts and name.

Indeed. This is the whole Producer job description: line up your friends like Nacho to participate, and get some other rich polo people to help finance it. And that's what the Sussexes are, producers.

Has she ever produced anything that wasn't about herself?

Sure. Cookie Queens, which is coming to theaters this summer. They have a few projects in development, like Meet Me at the Lake and another movie or streamer project I'm not recalling, that have nothing to do with either of the Sussexes as personalities.

Try harder, hater.

I guess Netflix is a bunch of haters too as they keep canceling her shows. Try harder, PR person.

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Keep reading the thread, palace PR people (or trolls, if that's what you are).

Saying it's about "her" shows is rich because you're blaming Meghan for Harry's polo documentary. Misogynoir much? And Netflix has several projects currently under development with the Sussexes, including the polo drama that's the topic of this thread.

If you don't like the topic then stop coming in here. It's really that simple.

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Anonymous wrote:I would watch a reality TV show about Harry & Meghan doing things that are very unroyal while saying good riddance to the monarchy.

I would watch a spicy polo documentary.

I would even watch a reality tv show idea that came up earlier in this thread about Meghan collaborating with the Yellowstone producer.

All of her content right now is so off-putting. It's supposed to be entertainment, not uninteresting messaging.

I agree, the Sussexes' content has been pretty blah (polo doc, lifestyle show) ever since they finished their documentary about leaving Britain and the Oprah interview. It's like they said, OK, we told our side of the story, so let's step back and make people think we're serious. Also, they used people they knew in both the polo doc and As Ever, so they really couldn't do a lot with affairs and beefcake.

Which is why a polo drama is such a great idea. They're completely free to bring on the beefcake, any sleazy parts of the polo scene, and the steamy affairs.

Also, the Sussexes produced Cookie Queens, about girls selling Girl Scout cookies, which is hitting the theaters this summer. As a former Girl Scout mom, I'll be in the audience. It looks like a lot of fun.