Harry and Meghan's Netflix series a huge success

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This series is one of the biggest Netflix shows in the US and the UK. It had 2.4 million views in the UK in the first 24 hours.
Whether you liked the show or not, it is clear that Netflix were right to back this and will make a tidy profit from it. And it helps to boost the bankability of Harry and Meghan.

Does anyone watch the ad supported Netflix, imagine having to watch crap and adverts and still having to pay for it

I don’t have Netflix and I’m not going to get it. I was unwell last week so in bed and brain was not working so reading about M&H was a perfect past time for me. I commented on different threads a lot but will I buy their “movie” or subscribe to Netflix to watch it? Never.
I don’t think significantly big amount of people subscribed to Netflix because of the film, they just happen to have Netflix so watched it.
I think Coronavirus brought NF much more customers then H&M.

The crown is a tiny show for Netflix, it just gets a lot of attention here. Netlfix shows are huge, reaching 300 million and up. The crown is just a small show with tiny viewing figures but gets a lot of publicity

How many people have signed up to the subscription channel though> Is that 100% of Netflix's viewers. I still think 2.4m is a tiny amount in the whole of the potential audience. Believe it or not there are people out there who don;t have Netflix.

I think 'I'm a Celeb' got 11.5m viewers on the final evening which means considerably more people chose to watch Matt Hancock (and Mike Tindall) than chose to watch Prince Harry and his wife - that's gotta sting!

2.4m globally for Netflix is small considering the reach of the platform.

I'll believe their show is doing the big numbers on Netflix when I see as many tiktoks re-enacting the curtsey as I do tiktoks re-enacting the Wednesday dance "I'll dance dance dance with my hands hands hands...."

Do we know who owns ‘royalty’ for H&M series?

and if DM and others ‘embed’ the trailer on their site or use photos from the series, do they have to pay royalty?

Maybe the same way Netflix got to use the Bashir video, fair use?

I have no idea, just a guess.

Netflix is huge, it’s got about 250 million subscribers, and remember subscribers are not viewers. Apparently they have another 40 percent who watch on someone else’s subscription,which takes them to 350 million. With 371 watching Wednesday I suspect the numbers are actually much higher. I’d estimate they have at least 500 million. As a lot of folks password share and don’t create a new profile.

2.4 million is a tiny percentage of their customer base, and if they can only pull that in with this series, which let’s face it is the biggie, then anything else has no chance.

Oh yes they will get paid for this series. Totally. Of course they will what they likely won’t get paid for is anything else. The hundred million is for the full deal so they will get a portion of it

Okay, that makes sense if they're paid for the bits of the deal they completed though not for the rest (Pearl which was cancelled, "feature films" apparently not yet available, etc.)

I wonder H&M they got proper advice and were able to pin down what they'd receive for each "portion" though - because otherwise, if PPs are right about the numbers being low, it wouldn't surprise me if Netflix tried to limit their payout

That part was hilarious, because Meghan’s explanation of how it was scripted was that she knew in advance they’d ask about the ring, so show the ring. Well, yeah: it’s an interview about your engagement. Of course they’ll ask about the ring. And most high-profile interviews come with questions approved in advance, PR approval, off-limits topics, and agreements about all sorts of staged stuff – like magazine cover stories where there’s a random paragraph about lipstick and you know the interview has been secured through L’Oreal. This interview was secured through the royal machine. Very few journalists have the power to interview without guidelines. You’d think she’d know how interviews work after seven years promoting Suits.

C'mon, spill — how much are you being paid to do this?

I heard an American correspondent telling someone on the BBC that the Americans are watching it as a joke. MM was a minor TV personality who wasn't considered much of an actress. Everyone can see the sad, Duke-of-Windsor-like dynamics of the relationship, with H in thrall and prepared to do anything for a wife . It's car crash TV. People are watching it to laugh at them.

I must admit I haven't watched it because it looked a bit boring and I am in the middle of several other series on different platforms so didn't want to waste time on it

@pattihews why would I be paid anything for expressing my views?

is it so terrible to wish people well and hope it all works out in the end?

Why else would you be on a public messageboard telling us about the amazing success of the show if you weren't being paid to lie. I repeat, the Tuesday night broadcast of Emmerdale attracted 4 million people.

Bit of a difference between wishing them well and hoping they will be president 😂

I thought I said mayor or governor 😀. And yes, I do wish them well. I hope they can find their peace, take care of their two babies and the security they need to keep them safe 😊

anyone else who thinks differently is welcome to their views.

Yes this is what I think too.

NF subscriber here, haven't added it to my list at all of must watch...read enough headlines about it in the daily paper.

I'm not anti royal either, I just think nothing good is going to come out of it for H & M (and the children when they are old enough) and I wonder in 5 - 10 years time if they are still happy they did this programme (apart from the money aspect). There is a price you pay that cannot be counted in money when you sell your soul...

2.4 million is a tiny percentage of their customer base, and if they can only pull that in with this series, which let’s face it is the biggie, then anything else has no chance.

I hadn’t really thought about it in global terms (I thought 2.4 million seemed quite good), but you’re right.

Also, I’m stuck on here talking about it because not one person I know in real life has watched it. I’ve mentioned it to a few, but mostly they’ve rolled their eyes at me for watching trashy tv. I even got an “I thought better of you than that” from my mother (a comment normally reserved for DSis watching Real Housewives).

Perhaps the next three episodes will be more sensational and therefore more watchable. The trailer makes it look likely they’ll be dishing the dirt on the royal family rather than complaining about the press.

@Diverseopinions they shouldn't have paid his bill to Virginia Giuffre that ran into millions, that proves guilt. Personally he should be thrown to the lions for what he's done. He went to his mothers funeral displaying all of his medals! I thought he was stripped of everything? 🤔

Multiply that by 10 and you’re in the right ball park… 🙄

@Diverseopinions they shouldn't have paid his bill to Virginia Giuffre that ran into millions, that proves guilt.

Nope.

Watching the new trailer it seems to me that one of their big gripes is that the British taxpayer wsnt going to pay for their round the clock protection once they left the UK and the RF
"Our security is being pulled. Everyone knows where we are"
"We need to get out of here"

It may be successful but what do they do next? They’ll need a huge amount of money to maintain their lifestyle. They’ve sold their story so what next?

I would be shooketh if Netflix had accurate stats about our incomes, that is interesting! Wonder how they get that info